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Currently, The Pace Gallery in New York has two exhibitions with works by Tara Donovan: Drawings (Pins) at their space at 25th Street, and Untitled (Mylar), 2011 at 22nd Street. Tara Donovan’s Untitled (Mylar), 2011 is a large-scale installation for which she uses sheets of Mylar. The Mylar sheets with their metallic surfaces are bent [...]

Interview with James Lindon of Victoria Miro Gallery, London, at the 2006 edition of Frieze Art Fair London. James Lindon is responsible for sales and special projects, he talks about the gallery, the program at Frieze 2006 and upcoming projects. Current exhibition (through November 18, 2006): Conrad Shawcross: No Such Thing As One. Frieze Art [...]

Onajidé Shabaka is the founder and editor of Miami Art Exchange. He has been an artist for over thirty years using various media. We met with Onajidé at the Miami Art Exchange Art Party, celebrating the 9th Anniversary of Miami Art Exchange network and kicking off the relaunch of Artlab33.com, a project that features studio [...]

The title of Krzysztof Zieliński’s exhibition “Millennium School” at Galerie Magazin in Berlin refers to schools erected in Poland in the years 1958-69 by the communist party. The “millennium memorial schools”-program (Polish: “szkoły tysiąclecia”) was a propaganda plan, with the new schools presented as a gift from the party to the nation. Krzysztof Zieliński’s series [...]

Adam McEwen’s Switch and Bait is an exhibition in a temporary project space of Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York’s Chelsea district. The minimalistic show consists of two sculptures, both made from machine graphite. Graphite, like its allotrope diamond, is a form of carbon. Its specific properties, such as stability under high temperatures, make it [...]

Interview with Frank Joss, Initiator and Director of the Architecture Talks Lucerne. Architecture Talks Lucerne provides a platform for networking and an opportunity for architects, interior designers, designers, general contractors, investors, for professionals and students, and – specific to the 2006 edition – retailers to meet. Architekturgespräche Luzern 2006, May 12, 2006. Interview with Frank [...]

In one of the largest halls of the Architecture Biennale’s Arsenale exhibition space, Transsolar and Tetsuo Kondo Architects created an artificial 800sqm cloud. A spiraling cantilevered ramp allows the visitors of the installation to experience the ethereal cloudscape from below, within, and above. The cloud is created through climate engineering. Creating the cloud is based [...]

The distinguished Swiss architect Peter Zumthor (*1943) speaks about his experiences and the difficulties in planning and constructing the Museum Kolumba in the centre of Cologne. After Zumthor won the architecture prize in 1997 it continued up to now to realize this extraordinary project in which the ruins of the late Gothic church “St. Kolumba”, [...]

The architect and urbanist David Rogers has been one of the speakers at the Architecture Talks Lucerne 2006: “Shopping-Miles And More”. We had the opportunity to talk with him on day one of the symposium. David Rogers is Senior Vice President of Jerde Partnership. He has been responsible for several of Jerde’s most innovative, award-winning [...]

George Nelson (1908-1986) was one of the most important American designers of the 20th century. In 2008 George Nelson would have been 100 years old. In recognition of this anniversary, the Vitra Design Museum presents the first comprehensive retrospective on his work: George Nelson. Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher. In this video, curator Jochen Eisenbrand talks [...]

Since last year, we have been following the development of an ambitious project on the Caribbean island Dellis Cay. Dellis Cay is the project of Dr. Cem Kinay, Chairman and CEO of the real estate development group O Property Collection. Kinay purchased the 560 acre island (part of the Turks and Caicos archipelago) and commissioned [...]

The 2007 edition of Design Miami features 26 historical and contemporary design galleries. Eight of the 26 participating galleries make their Design Miami debut: Albion, Casati Gallery, DeLorenzo1950, Donzella 20th Century, Galerie de Casson, Geoffrey Diner, Moss Gallery, and Reform Gallery. In addition to the installations by the galleries, the program of the fair includes [...]

At Art 40 Basel, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin presented a 6-foot Takashi Murakami sculpture, made in collaboration with the U.S. record producer and designer Pharrell Williams. The object is titled The Simple Things. It features a glass-fiber, steel and acrylic head based on Takashi Murakami’s cartoon-inspired signature character Mr. Dob. In its mouth you find objects [...]

As part of The Wolfsonian Museum’s official program for Art Basel Miami Beach, Elliott Earls performed a new work in conjunction with the museum’s Thoughts on Democracy exhibition. The Thoughts on Democracy exhibition is comprised of posters created by 60 leading contemporary artists and designers, invited by The Wolfsonian to create a new graphic design [...]

Beyond the Screen, the current exhibition at Gallery [DAM] Berlin, offers an insight into the world of “fabbing” – digital fabrication. Fabbing allows for the production of structures and surfaces exceeding the limits of digital mass production. By using specific software to control these tools, artists and designers are able to realize unimaginable complex objects. [...]