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Gallery owner Joni Gordon talks about 33 years at Newspace. Newspace Gallery Los Angeles celebrates 33 years in a major retrospective exhibiting 114 artists and their art in their own time: 1973-2006. Many artists had their initial exhibition at Newspace. Each of the 114 artists are now called home, back to Newspace. By VTV correspondents [...]

Within the framework of the Frieze Art Fair 2010 in London, Deutsche Bank presented Yto Barrada as the “Artist of the Year” 2011. After Wangechi Mutu, Barrada is the second woman whom the bank is honoring with the award. The was announced at the Deutsche Bank Lounge at Frieze by Pierre de Weck and Okwui [...]

In the fourth and last part of the interview G.H. Hovagimyan talks about: the art market; the art scene in New York and how the times have changed since the 70s; art fairs; and the next wave of community. After the interview there’s a work sample of a project by G.H. Hovagimyan in development, Assembled [...]

Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture is the current exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Le Corbusier (1887 – 1965) is probably the most influential architect of the 20th Century. The retrospective aims to address the many aspects that still make Le Corbusier’s work such an important point of [...]

No, Frieze Art Fair in London has not (yet) been bought by the Millionaire fair, but if the current trend continues, the only thing that separates them is slightly better taste (maybe). Anyway, the rich are now able to buy not only useless things like Tracy Emin neon signs and Gerhard Richter paintings, but also [...]

In the Desert of Modernity – Colonial Planning and After is an exhibition at the House of World Cultures (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) in Berlin, that focuses on the European modernization fantasies in colonial North Africa. The car-oriented city, the underground car park and other projects were intended as a blueprint for Europe’s metropolises, [...]

In this video, Ingar Dragset of the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset talks about their exhibition “The Collectors” that they showed as representation of Denmark and Nordic Countries Finland, Norway and Sweden at the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009 – the idea behind the exhibition, how it came about, the different concepts for the Danish and the [...]

An essential part of the Jenny Holzer exhibition at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen / Basel in Switzerland is a series of projections in public space. Since 1996 Jenny Holzer has created light projections in public spaces around the world, at sites including the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris and the facade of the [...]

At the presentation of the Velux Stiftung Daylight-Award presentation at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, Switzerland, another honorary award was given to Isa Stürm Urs Wolf Architects who realized a new (day-)light concept for the museum Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil-Jona. It’s an invention whereby the main structure of the building stays untouched. The jury [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

During Art Basel Miami Beach 2007 the China Chair Project Exhibition presented functional contemporary Chinese Sculpture at the Carlyle Hotel, Miami Beach. The artists were selected by Paul Hughes. Many of the artists participating in the project had never worked in three-dimensional media before, and all but one had never worked on a chair. Each [...]

Julian Hönig is working at carmaker Audi as Senior Designer Audi Design Exterieur. He studied industrial design in Austria and car design in Pasadena and is the designer of the Audi RSQ concept, a futuristic film car for the motion picture “I, Robot”, and the concept car “Cross Coupé quattro”. In this interview he shows [...]

When Pharrell Williams, in an interview at Art Basel 2009, philosophied about the simple things in life, we got the message. So this exhibition is something for him: Vitra Design Museum’s latest show Hidden Heroes. The Genius of Everyday Things in the Buckminster Fuller Dome at the Vitra Campus, a tribute to the products that [...]

Berlinomat is a platform that does not only have design from Berlin in its name. The products which are sold there are from Berlin or made by Berlin designers. The director of the shop on Frankfurter Allee, Anja Leber, talks about the concept of the shop. Owners: Jörg Wichmann and Theresa Meirer. Berlinomat, Berlin, September [...]