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Diango Hernández, born 1970 in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba lives and works in Trento, Italy, Düsseldorf, Germany and Havana, Cuba. “Contemporary cuban artist, political art, every second is art” (quote from the artists’ homepage). Impressions from the preview of Hernández’ show REVOLUTION at the Kunsthalle Basel, January 21, 2006. Click image or this link to watch [...]

Italian artist Gino De Dominicis (1947-1998) was an artist who purposely shrouded himself in mystery and stood apart from pouplar artistic trends. He worked in a variety of mediums including sculpture, painting, film, and installation. The current exhibition at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is the first major American museum exhibition. The show focuses primarily on [...]

Zane Bennett Contemporary Art recently inaugurated its new space in the Santa Fe Railyard Art District. Currently the gallery presents recent paintings by Günther Förg (July 12 – September 6). Günther Förg (born 1952) is one of the most prominent German artists of his generation. Förg started his art career in the 1970s with a [...]

Who is Laura Ford? Pippy Houldsworth of London’s Houldsworth Gallery shows and tells us. You may recall Ford represented Wales at the 51st Venice Biennale. In 2007 she’ll have a major commission for the Contemporary Art Society for Economists Plaza, be a part of Blickachsen in Bad Homburg and part of BBC’s Imagine series. Althea [...]

A major retrospective exhibition of Bruce Nauman’s work in neon and fluorescent light is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Miami (until January 7, 2007). Titled “Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light”, the exhibition includes 16 of Nauman’s word play and identity signs, fluorescent light environments, and figurative neons, from [...]

Chad Oppenheim is one of the architects who design for Dellis Cay, a private island in the Caribbean (Turks & Caicos). He is designing an exclusive zone of villas on the island that will be released during Phase I of the project. The O Property Collection and Nadine Johnson invited us to a plane trip [...]

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”, [...]

At The Armory Show 2009 Wetterling Gallery showed two documentary videos and a digital rendering introducing a large installation called Big Bambú by the artists Mike and Doug Starn. The Starns’ Big Bambú is an artwork in the realm of architecture and performance, a massive, moving construction made out of countless bamboo poles that is [...]

Carl Ettensperger has been involved in some of the most prestigious projects in the hospitality industry. For Dellis Cay, he designed ten Over Water Villas, which will be the Caribbean’s first over-water villas. We spoke with Carl Ettensperger at the Dellis Cay booth he designed for O Property Collection at Art Basel Miami Beach 2008. [...]

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 exhibition i-Kosmos (i-Cosmos) at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main is an investigation on the role of design for the success of Apple in the computer and entertainment business. i-Cosmos: The Might, Myth and Magic of a Brand is the world’s first comprehensive show on the design of iDevices as well [...]

For its 2008 edition, Design Miami moved from the Moore Building to a tent designed by the architecture and design firm Aranda/Lasch. This year, 23 galleries are participating in the fair and Design Miami inaugurates its own, curated exhibition entitled “Beyond Organic: Design in the State of Nature”. For the first time contemporary jewelry is [...]

The Essence of Things. Design and the Art of Reduction is an exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum that brings together objects such as the iPod, the Thonet chair No. 14, and furniture and product design by Gerrit Rietveld, Le Corbusier, Charles and Ray Eames, Max Bill, Dieter Rams, Shiro Kuramata, and Jasper Morrison. The [...]

Ettore Sottsass, the most celebrated designer of his generation celebrates his 90th birthday in September. Best known as the founder of the groundbreaking 1980s design group Memphis, this doyen of Italian design has also designed glass and ceramics for Alessi and landmark electronic products for Olivetti. Sottsass has designed an exhibition with the Design Museum [...]

The Danner-Rotunda at Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich presents contemporary works from over hundred international goldsmiths. The exhibition is to a large extend drawn from the international collection of the Danner Foundation (Danner-Stiftung). The collection reflects the broad creative spectrum of modern jewelry arts, starting with the avant-garde artists of the 60′s [...]