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The 11th edition of the Armory Show presents 243 international galleries. Many galleries are devoting their stands to single artist presentations. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts for instance is presenting The Volksboutique Armory Apothecary by Christine Hill, where visitors will have the opportunity to describe their maladies to the artist, who will prescribe remedies for a [...]

Metro Pictures presents an exhibition of new work by Tony Oursler titled Cell Phones Diagrams Cigarettes Searches and Scratch Cards. On display are a variety of new works that take on technology, obsessive desires, phobias, socially acceptable addiction, and self-help culture. The largest work is a forest of smoldering cigarettes. Other works are an 8-foot [...]

Created specially for the Armory Show, American artist Christine Hill’s The Volksboutique Armory Apothecary is the continuation of a series of large-scale projects, categorized by the artist as “organizational ventures,” that blur the boundaries between art and commerce. These projects have included the production of a TV talk show, the establishment of a second-hand clothing [...]

For the fourth time Deutsche Bank partners the Art Cologne art fair. This year Deutsche Bank presents works by the sculptor Anish Kapoor. The exhibition in the VIP Lounge gives an outlook to the upcoming exhibition in Berlin. This autumn, Anish Kapoor will realize a commission for the Deutsche Guggenheim, an expansive installation entitled “Memory”. [...]

The exhibition blogpix at Denise Bibro Fine Art’s Platform Project Space brings together four art bloggers who have each chosen an artist (or artists) for the show. The bloggers are Roberta Fallon & Libby Rosof, Joanne Mattera, and Hrag Vartanian. Fallon & Rosof have chosen Philadelphia artist Christopher Davison; Joanne Mattera has selected three fellow [...]

On the occasion of the exhibition Design High at Louise Blouin Foundation in London VernissageTV met up with Joep van Lieshout, who presented the work Wombhouse in the show. In this video, Joep van Lieshout talks about his background, his work between the poles of art and design, how his work changed over the years, [...]

Zaha Hadid’s ideal house at IMM Cologne appears as a big, red cube, hollowed out and morphed into a sequence of rooms that lead into one another and also open up wide to the outside. Zaha Hadid’s ideal house cologne “retains the traditional form of the home as a unit and protective shell. The rest, [...]

Currently, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City presents the first comprehensive exhibition in New York of the works of Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, the Tokyo-based architects who have designed the museum’s new building at 235 Bowery. “SANAA: Works 1998-2008” features not only the new museum, which is the [...]

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 [...]

“Architecture is undergoing a crisis. Our buildings no longer satisfy people. It is necessary to start to create differently: in place of design and aesthetics to take inspiration from the deeper laws of nature.” This quote by architect Martin Rajniš illustrates the basic concept of the Pavilion of the Czech and Slovak Republic at the [...]

Design Miami Basel left the Markthalle and is now located at the back of Art Basel. In addition to the 27 participating international design galleries, Design Miami Basel 2009 features the Designers of the Future Award Installation, a special exhibition by Marc Newson featuring several of the designers exclusive works including rare prototypes and private [...]

The show This Side Up at the Museum of Design Zurich, conceived by Konstantin Grcic and his team, shows works from the past decade. It emphasises processes and is presented as an arrangement of over-sized boxes that look as if they have been casually opened for the visitors. Fifty products are on display and visitors [...]

Hrafnkell Birgisson and Sebastian Summa have worked together on projects for exhibition- and product design since 2002. Sebastian Summa was trained as a blacksmith before he began his industrial design studies in Berlin. He also designed the lamp “phon” for Hugo Bräuer Metallwaren. Hrafnkell Birgisson studied design in Saarbrücken and Berlin. He works and teaches [...]

For his Real Time Project, Dutch designer Maarten Baas became a film director. Thanks to new technologies in video, it’s possible to produce videos of 12- or even 24 hours in length. This makes it possible to film a movie that can function as a clock. Maarten Baas created a clock collection by using the [...]

In part 2 of our walk through the Colani retrospective at the Design Museum London, curator Dr. Albrecht Bangert explains the concept behind the exhibition. Luigi Colani: Translating Nature is divided into three parts: water, air and land. When the visitor enters the exhibition space, he immerses into a water world which invites him to [...]