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In honor of its tenth edition, The Armory Show has commissioned artists Mary Heilmann and John Waters to collaborate on the visual identity of the 10th edition of the Armory Show. At the press conference they talk about the early days of The Armory Show as the Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair and the fair’s [...]

At the Art Forum Berlin 2006 Galerie Jan Winkelmann presented an impressive work by artist Plamen Dejanoff (born 1970 in Sofia / Bulgaria, lives in Vienna / Austria). Jan Winkelmann talks about the work which is a modular structure made of casted bronze weighing 5 tons. It was first shown in the Museum of Modern [...]

New York correspondent Theodore Bouloukos visits Eric Dupont of Eric Dupont Gallery Paris at Scope New York 2007 to discuss the work of Regina Virserius and Damien Cabanes. Scope New York, February 24, 2007. > Click image to watch Flash video in new movie window. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video [...]

Interview with the director of ada Gallery, John Pollard. At Scope London 2006 the gallery exhibited work by Kate Woodliff, Spahr Brothers, Daniel Davidson, Eric Sall, A.J. Liberto, Bruce Wilhelm, Casey Jex Smith, Charles Yuen, Tricia Keightley and others. Ada is a small artist run gallery exhibiting contemporary fine art in Richmond Virginia since June [...]

Groeflin Maag Galerie AG, Basel, was founded in October 2003. Claudia Groeflin and Davia Maag represent young emerging artists from around the world. The current exhibition “You Knows It”, curated by Mark Divo, shows works by Clare Goodwin, Pascal Häusermann, Jan Kotik, Mark Divo and Marcel Kühne. Music by Duo Classico, Basel. Impressions from the [...]

Listen to the speech of Zaha Hadid taken from the opening ceremony of the Science Center Phaeno. The Phaeno building, created and realized by Zaha Hadid Architects, London and Mayer Baehrle Architects, is already a milestone in the history of architecture. VernissageTV shows pictures of the Phaeno Science Center and the installations of Joe Ansel [...]

The VitraHaus is the newest addition to the architecture park that the furniture company Vitra has realized during the last decades on their company site. The premises now features architecture by Nicholas Grimshaw (who realized the first building after a blaze that destroyed the old building and conceived the master plan for the site), Zaha [...]

Until November 9, 2008, the Central Park in New York hosts Chanel Mobile Art and the Chanel Contemporary Art Container by Zaha Hadid. The futuristic pavilion designed by Prizker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid presents changing installations of works by contemporary artists from all over the world. Among the participating artists are Tabaimo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Loris [...]

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”, [...]

Together with Jan Kaplicky Amanda Levete heads Future Systems, an architectural and design practice based in London. Future Systems realized many prestigious projects such as retails designs for Comme des Garçons in New York, Tokyo and Paris and the Selfridges department store in Birmingham. For Established & Sons Amanda Levete designed the sofa “Chester” and [...]

Monochrom is an international art-technology-philosophy group founded in 1993. VTV is talking with the “white heterosexual founding father” of monochrom, Johannes Grenzfurthner, about the beginnings of monochrom as a print magazine, the monochrom blog, his interest in the political message of cyberpunk science fiction and monochroms evolution to a group that works with different media [...]

In 1987 Mike Meiré founded the advertising agency Meiré und Meiré, along with his brother Marc. Since 1999 he is art director of the business magazine “Brand Eins”. In the third part of the interview Mike Meiré talks about the creation process, from where he gets his inspiration, artists he likes and his favorite brands. [...]

The first Design Miami (formerly design.05 Miami) took place from December 1-5, 2005 in the historic Moore Building in the Miami Design District. Driving force behind Design Miami is real-estate developer Craig Robins with his company Dacra. He is the principal of Design Miami/ Basel and known for his addiction to art, architecture and design [...]

A conversation with Ambra Medda, co-founder and director of Design Miami/ Basel. In 2007, Design Miami/ Basel explores Process and Performance in contemporary and historic design. Ambra Medda talks about the new venue (the Markthalle, Basel), the participating design galleries, the special program with Design Performances, Design Exhibitions, Design Films, and Design Talks, and the [...]

Ambra Medda, co-founder and director of Design Miami/ Basel talks about the success of the new design fair, the popularity of historic and contemporary design and why the fair choose Basel as second location for the fair. Interview with Ambra Medda, Design Miami/ Basel, June 12, 2006. > Click image to watch quicktime video in [...]