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As a sort of preview to the upcoming exhibition in the museum, Fondation Beyeler in Riehen / Switzerland, presented a rather unusual floor work by the Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes at Art Basel Miami Beach 2010. Now the museum is showcasing four new, monumental paintings by the artist, as well as a selection of collages, [...]

During Art Basel 2011 Brooklyn-based artist Jamie Isenstein was performing “Rug Woogie IV” at the booth of Galerie Meyer Riegger. Jamie Isenstein was seated at a classical harp. But the instrument didn’t produce any sound, on the contrary: Jamie Isenstein wasn’t plucking the strings, but weaving wool through them, covering their sound. The result of [...]

The exhibition at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein focuses on Thomas Schütte’s lesser-known early works of the late 1970s, a period of time which for Thomas Schütte was a kind of “research phase” during which, as a student in Fritz Schwegler’s class, and later in Gerhard Richter’s painting class, he gradually made his way to sculpture: “As the [...]

Until 15 April, the Beirut Art Center in Beirut / Lebanon is two showing exhibitions: Image Works by Harun Farocki and Drawing with the Things Themselves by Paola Yacoub. Image Works presents a selection of Harun Farocki’s major video installations. Among the works on display are the earlier works Interface (1995), I Thought I Was [...]

There are many highlights to be seen at this year’s Art Cologne, 44. Internationaler Kunstmarkt in Cologne, Germany. Galerie Thomas for example shows a large painting by Joan Mitchell and an orange colored sculpture by Wim Delvoye; and Galerie Karsten Greve focuses on works by Louise Bourgeois. Art Cologne 2010 Highlights, part 1. Cologne / [...]

Last week, the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA was pre-opened to selected guests with a gala benefit dinner to honor long-time museum patrons Lynda and Stewart Resnick. The Resnick Pavilion was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano. Renzo Piano’s Resnick Pavilion is a key [...]

At this year’s Art Basel, the galleries von Bartha, Basel, and Annely Juda Fine Art, London, in co-operation with Duve, Berlin, and P.P.O.W., New York, presented a large-scale installation by New York based artist Sarah Oppenheimer. Sarah Oppenheimer’s VP-41 is a periscope embedded within a particular architecture. The periscope itself is constructed out of bent [...]

James Turrell is famous for his work with light and space. He is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater, where he is turning a volcanic crater outside Flagstaff, Arizona, into a monumental work of art. In Zuoz, Switzerland, James Turrell realized one of his skyspaces, rooms that are conceived to enable viewers [...]

The Design Miami satellite exhibition Architecting the Future: Buckminster Fuller & Lord Norman Foster in Miami’s Design District is dedicated to two iconic inventions by architect, designer and inventor Buckminster Fuller: the Fly’s Eye Dome and the Dymaxion 4 car. In 1961, the Fly’s Eye Dome was envisioned by Fuller as a fully functional, air [...]

On the 14th January 2010, the Velux Stiftung presented the second Daylight-Award at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. The presentation was realized in collaboration with the Department of Architecture of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (DARDEN ETH), Zürich and the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum. Winner of the Daylight-Award 2010 is [...]

The CaixaForum Madrid is a new cultural center in the historical center of Madrid, near the renowned Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornemisza museums, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, the 2001 Pritzker Architecture Prize winners. The CaixaForum is a restoration and expansion of one of the few examples of industrial architecture in Madrid’s [...]

The following galleries participated in Design Miami/ Basel: Antik, Demisch Danant, Barry Friedman Ltd., Magen H. Gallery, Nilufar, Galerie Italienne, R 20th Century, Galerie Kreo, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Philippe Jousse, Cristina Grajales, Contrasts Gallery, Galerie Downtown-François Laffanour, Dansk Mobelkunst, Designer’s Gallery Gabrielle Ammann, Mouvements Modernes, and Philippe Denys. Design Miami/ Basel, press tour with the [...]

For his solo show “L’Italianita dei Gioielli” at Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich italian jewelry artist Giampaolo Babetto created an exhibition tailor-made to the circular, light-filled gallery space on the second floor of the rotunda in the Pinakothek der Moderne. In this video we have a look at the exhibition and [...]

During Art Basel Miami Beach 2010, The Wolfsonian-FIU design museum in Miami Beach was showcasing the temporary exhibition “Speed Limits” and “Seduce Me”, an installation / presentation by Isabella Rossellini, Andy Byers, and Rick Gilbert. After her highly praised “Green Porno”, Isabella Rossellini’s Award-winning comical series on how animals mate, she and her collaborators Andy [...]

Gabrielle Ammann, director of Designer’s Gallery, talks about her program at Design Miami Basel, especially about the “Event Horizon” table by Marc Newson and Zaha Hadid’s “Iceberg” sculpture, and the importance of Design Miami for design galleries. Interior architect Gabrielle Ammann established Designer’s Gallery in Cologne, Germany in 2006. The gallery concept was born out [...]