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DiVA Digital Video and Art Fair Miami Beach 2006 exclusively presented artworks created in digital and video format. Participating galleries: Galerie Grand Siecle, Taipei; Boreas Gallery, Pittsfield; Remy Toledo Gallery, New York; Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Cologne; Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Gent; Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei; Walsh Gallery, Chicago; NT Art Gallery, Bologna; G-Module, Paris; MW Galleries, New [...]

The Mayor Synagogue in Istanbul’s Hasköy district is a very special place. The historic synagogue is hundreds of years old. Today, it is used as storage facility, and houses a workshop and a billiard saloon. That’s what the Romanian-born installation artist Serge Spitzer found fascinating about the place. Serge Spitzer has created a site-specific installation [...]

Munich Contempo is the name of a new fair that is planned to be held in Munich, Germany, in October 2010. Munich Contempo focuses on contemporary and cutting edge art and design. In this conversation with Dr. Bettina Krogemann, one of the board members Michael Schultz of Galerie Michael Schultz, talks about the concept of [...]

For the spring Rundgang (walkabout) of the SpinnereiGalleries Pierogi Leipzig presents Bahamian artist Tavares Strachan and Brian Conley. We had a closer look at the project of conceptual artist Brian Conley. Brian Conley presents the body of work “Decipherment of Linear X”. This project began ten years ago when he discovered several dozen wooden sticks [...]

In her major solo exhibition titled All Access World at Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, the New York-based Corsican artist Agathe Snow focuses on monuments, trademarks, and historical sites and investigates how they leave their mark on collective memory and national identity. The exhibition presents large-scale collages, and mobile sculptures. For the sculptures Agathe Snow has [...]

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 [...]

Richard Neutra is considered one of modernism’s most important architects. The Austrian architect was active primarily in Southern California. The exhibition Richard Neutra: Buildings and Projects 1960-1970 in Switzerland at the Swiss Architecture Museum focuses on the his projects in Switzerland. Between 1960 and 1970, Richard Neutra realized two housing developments and eight villas in [...]

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 [...]

Within the framework of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, art curator, critic and art historian Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted live public interviews with every Biennale participant. The six-day live marathon took place in the Arsenale from August 22 through 27. Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed artists and architects such as Kazuyo [...]

One of the events during Armory Week was the celebration of High Line Art’s Spring Season and Opening of the new public art project “Space Available” by Kim Beck. In this video, we take a walk on the High Line and speak with the curator and director of the High Line’s art program, Lauren Ross. [...]

Curator Mathias Schwartz-Claus, Vitra Design Museum, talks about the current exhibition “Jean Prouvé. The poetics of the technical object”. From the press release: “In conception, this first comprehensive and systematic touring exhibition on the furniture and architecture, which Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) created between 1924 to the mid 1970s, is very much in keeping with Prouvés [...]

American Streamlined Design – The World of Tomorrow at The Wolfsonian FIU is an exhibition that focuses on a design era that developed in the 1930s and ’40s, characterized by curving forms, and smooth, clean silhouettes. The style, which suggested speed and glamour invaded American design in the post-Depression years. It was widely applied in [...]

Interview with Frédéric Eyl, Gunnar Green, Richard Thé, the creators of “Parasite”, an independent projection-system that can be attached to subways with suction pads. Interview: Jussi Ängeslevä (assistant professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin). Reality Check c-base @ Transmediale.06, Berlin, Exhibition here/there – works of the digital class of the udk berlin of C-Base, [...]

Cecilia Dean, co-founder and editor Visionaire talks about the original idea of Visionaire, the concept, the 50th issue and the Visionaire Coloring Toy set. Visionaire is a multi-format album of fashion and art produced in exclusive numbered limited editions. Visionaire celebrates its 50th issue with a very special edition, the “Visionaire 50 Artist Toys”. The [...]

In this episode, VernissageTV sat down with Peter F. Braunwalder, President and CEO of HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA in the HSBC Lounge at Design Miami/ Basel. Peter F. Braunwalder talks about his personal interest in art and design, design as collecting item, and why HSBC Private Bank sponsors art and design events, especially Design [...]