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Johannes Grenzfurthner talks about the different backgrounds of the monochrom team and “Brandmarker“, one of the projects monochrom got a lot of publicity for. The attempt to evaluate the actual power of brands by making Austrian people draw a total of twelve logos from memory led to some interesting conclusions, at the same time funny [...]

The exhibition “NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith” at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / MoMA brings together a multigenerational group of North, South, and Central American artists who address the value of ritual in the artistic process and the wider implications of spirituality in contemporary art. On display are some 50 works of sculpture, photography, [...]

Elizabeth Peyton is best known for portraits of her close friends, pop celebrities, and European monarchy. She painted Princes William and Harry, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Pete Doherty, Ludwig II of Bavaria, and members of the Kennedy family. Neugerriemschneider presents new works by Elizabeth Peyton (April 29 – June 3, 2006), mainly portraits of women [...]

Until May 2010, the Public Art Fund presents the first major outdoor exhibition in New York of artist Peter Coffin. The outdoor show Peter Coffin: Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes) at New York’s City Hall Park takes the viewer on a journey through the history of scupture by displaying 13 monumental silhouettes of iconic sculptures. There’s Louise [...]

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 [...]

This is the second and final part of a talk the artists Doug and Mike Starn held at their studio in Beacon. Mike and Doug Starn talk about their large installation called Big Bambú, a massive, moving construction made out of countless bamboo poles that is in constant transformation. Click here for part 1 and [...]

Last week, the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA was pre-opened to selected guests with a gala benefit dinner to honor long-time museum patrons Lynda and Stewart Resnick. The Resnick Pavilion was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano. Renzo Piano’s Resnick Pavilion is a key [...]

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 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 [...]

During The Armory Show Week 2010, French architect Jean Nouvel was in New York for the preview of his new and nearly completed residential tower called 100 11th Avenue. The building is located at the intersection of 19th Street and the West Side Highway, along the Hudson River in Manhattan and facing another building by [...]

Last weekend (July 13/14, 2007) the students of the Faculty of Design at Germany’s Hochschule Pforzheim University displayed their work in one of the two graduation shows (Werkschau) the college holds per year. In this video we take a look at the work of the Transportation Design students, especially what they created under the title [...]

For his solo show “L’Italianita dei Gioielli” at Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich italian jewelry artist Giampaolo Babetto created an exhibition tailor-made to the circular, light-filled gallery space on the second floor of the rotunda in the Pinakothek der Moderne. In this video we have a look at the exhibition and [...]

At Design Miami/ Basel 2007 we met decorative arts consultant, dealer and design curator Cristina Grajales, Cristina Grajales served as director of 1950 Gallery in New York City from 1990 to 2000. “Grajales’s passion for many of the twentieth century’s greatest masters – among them Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Jean Prouvé and Charlotte Perriand – propelled [...]

This exhibition features the winners of the design competition organized by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (BAK), one of the most important contemporary design promotion instruments. The exhibition provides an insight into current Swiss design work in the fields of graphics, textile and fashion design, photography, and industrial and stage design. Design is not [...]

On invitation of Flausen, VernissageTV presented the Art TV project at the Tweakfest 2007 in Zurich. According to the concept of “Flausen” the invited guests present their ideas within a timeframe of seven minutes. The following guests talked about their projects: Curdin Schneider: Camkiller, Chur; Andres Wanner: Pixelstorm, Zürich; Philipp Meier: GUGUS DADA Der Kunst [...]