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George Kuchar is a legendary American underground filmmaker who is known for his lo-fi autobiographies. He was born in New York in 1942 and died in 2011 in San Francisco. George Kuchar began his career in the 1950s when he and his twin brother Mike made 8mm burlesques of Hollywood productions. George Kuchar is one [...]

Interview with Amanda Sharp (co-director of the Frieze Art Fair, together with Matthew Slotover) on the occasion of the 2006 edition of the Frieze Art Fair. Amanda Sharp talks about the beginnings and the success of the Frieze magazine and the Frieze Art Fair. This interview was realized in a cooperation between Artfacts.Net and VernissageTV: [...]

Jeff Wall: Exposure (Belichtung) is a special exhibition commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, Germany. Jeff Wall: Exposure presents, for the first time, four new, large-scale, black-and-white photographs by the Canadian artist Jeff Wall: Cold storage, Vancouver; Men waiting; War game; and Tenants. Also on display are five earlier pieces, gelatin-silver prints as well [...]

Robert Gober: Work 1976-2007 at Schaulager Basel (May 12 – October 14, 2007). The fifth exhibition at the unique Schaulager is dedicated to the work of the American artist Robert Gober. “Childhood, sexuality, memory, loss, religion and discrimination are themes that have always preoccupied Gober and for which he has developed his own unique pictorial [...]

With the presence of 278 galleries from 33 countries around the world, ARCO is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The international fair for contemporary art in Madrid presents an ambitious program with different sections as the “Austria at ARCO” program, “Cityscapes” and the “Project Rooms”. Professional preview, February 8, 2006. Click image or this [...]

Zaha Hadid Architecture – Projects and Built Work at the Architectural Museum Basel. No. 2 in VTV’s REMIX series. Video showing impressions from the opening of the exhibition. Architekturmuseum Basel / Switzerland. September 9, 2005, Click image or this link to watch video.

For the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Director and 2010 Pritzker Prize winner Kazuyo Sejima invited Hans Ulrich Obrist to realize the Now Interviews, six days of live public interviews. The Now Interviews will be on view from August 29 – November 21, 2010. 

From August 22 through 27, Obrist developed what he calls [...]

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”, [...]

In the second part ot the interview with David Rogers he talks about art and architecture, the partnership with ING and the mixed-use project. David Rogers is architect and urbanist and Senior Vice President of Jerde Partnership. One of his projects, Zlote Tarasy, just won the 2006 Architectural review MIPIM Future Project Award in the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

At Design Miami Basel we met with Rianne Makkink and Jurgen Bey of Studio Makkink & Bey who presented new work at the booth of Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai / China. Gallery Director Pearl Lam has invited Studio Makkink & Bey, the joint-venture of architect Rianne Makkink and designer Jurgen Bey to investigate Chinese craftmanship and [...]

The Design Museum London is one of the world’s leading museums of modern and contemporary design. We met Deyan Sudjic, the Design Museum’s director who gave us a short introduction to the Design Museum and an outlook on future plans including the museum’s expansion and relocation. Design Museum London, London, May 17, 2007. > Right-click [...]

Interview with Monica Pozzi about Resfest Swissmix. Swissmix is the selection for young Swiss filmmakers of Resfest Switzerland. Swissmix provides young Swiss talent with a professional platform and may work as a steppingstone to reach an international audience. This year’s participants have been Dominic Lahiff / GMD Three, Jonas Meier; Oliver Conrad (Kompost); Ramon & [...]

Post-war Italian design was a huge source of inspiration for designer Marc Newson. “I was amazed by the seamless ability of designers and industry to produce every conceivable type of industrial product, from furniture to automobiles”. Now he has done a reinterpretation of one of the icons of Italian design, the Riva leisure speedboat. The [...]