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Kent Henricksen’s exhibition “Divine Deviltries” at the Chelsea-based gallery John Connelly Presents is the artist’s second solo exhibition in New York at the gallery. The gallery’s walls are covered with a series of wallpapers and art work which look nice from a distance, but turn evil when you have a close look. Kent Henricksen, born [...]

Within the framework of the Suzie Q projects, Birgid Uccia and Bob van Orsouw present a solo show with the sculptural works of Edward Lipski. Lipski was born 1966 in London, where he studied at the Chelsea College of Art and Design. The current exhibition presents, among others, the sculpture “King”, which recalls an Egyptian [...]

Director / curator John Pollard of ADA Gallery and art consultant Althea Viafora-Kress talk about the artists Jared Lindsay Clark (website, blog) and Bruce Wilhelm (website, blog), and ADA Gallery. ADA is an artist run gallery exhibiting contemporary fine art in Richmond Virginia since June of 2003. Scope New York art fair 2007. February 26, [...]

There are many highlights to be seen at this year’s Art Cologne, 44. Internationaler Kunstmarkt in Cologne, Germany. Galerie Thomas for example shows a large painting by Joan Mitchell and an orange colored sculpture by Wim Delvoye; and Galerie Karsten Greve focuses on works by Louise Bourgeois. Art Cologne 2010 Highlights, part 1. Cologne / [...]

The group show Asimetrías y Convergências at Galeria Vermelho in Sao Paulo, Brazil, brings together works by emerging Colombian artists, among them Milena Bonilla, Luis Hernández Mellizo, Icaro Zorbar, Mónica Naranjo, Diana Menestrey, Cesar Gonzalez, Daniel Santiago Salguero, María Isabel Rueda, Adriana Salazar, María Isabel Arango, Kevin Simon Mancera, Roa Luisa, Andrés Ramírez Gaviria, Angélica [...]

George Nelson (1908-1986) was one of the most important American designers of the 20th century. In 2008 George Nelson would have been 100 years old. In recognition of this anniversary, the Vitra Design Museum presents the first comprehensive retrospective on his work: George Nelson. Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher. In this video, curator Jochen Eisenbrand talks [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The new museum for modern and contemporary art, the Museion Bozen Bolzano, Italy, was designed by the Berlin-based architects KSV Krüger Schubert Vandreike. At the occasion of the inauguration of the new museum, VernissageTV met with Torsten Krüger, Christiane Schuberth, Bertram Vandreike who guided us through the Museion and explained the concept behind the building [...]

The exhibition “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape”, curated in 1972 by Emilio Ambasz at the MoMA in New York was a huge success. The show featured a selection of work, theory and historical background of twelve Italian designers and architects at a peak of the Italian radical design movement of the 1960s, early 1970s: Archizoom, [...]

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 [...]

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 & [...]

In this episode, Prof. Thomas Gerlach and student Nils Uellendahl show and explain an exciting transportation concept based on swarm intelligence. Faculty of Design at Pforzheim University, Werkschau, Pforzheim, Germany, July 14, 2007. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file.

Viennese-born designer Robert Stadler studied design at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan, Italy and then at ENSCI / Les Ateliers in Paris. In Paris, he co-founded the Radi Designers group. Since 2000 he has been working solo while simultaneously continuing his activity with the group. He lives and works in Paris and Rio [...]

Together with Edward Barber Jay Osgerby founded the design studio “BarberOsgerby” in 1996. Jay Osgerby talks about the Zero-in table which Established & Sons (in its limited edition version of high gloss polished, hand-formed aluminium) presented at Design Miami/ Basel. The Zero-in has won the Red Dot award, the FX design award 2005 and the [...]