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The booth of Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, at ARCO is dedicated to Ed Templeton. “Templeton made his mark initially as a professional skateboarder, becoming a celebrity among legions of young and eager fans, and this afforded him the unique opportunity to not only document his surroundings and the people he loves, but to further [...]

Until 17th April 2010, White Columns in New York presents a group of recent oil paintings by Billy Childish. The British artist, musician and writer Billy Childish is a legendary figure. He has worked on the margins of the art world, the music business, and the literary scene for more than thirty years. On display [...]

Facinated by all things extraterrestrial, the creative duo Comenius Roethlisberger & Admir Jahic presented their work “The Flying Saucers or In God We Trust” at Scope art fair Basel 2010. Roethlisberger and Jahic are known for their “YouTube Drawings“, a series of drawings that show stills from YouTube clips. The artists captured hundreds of individual [...]

This is a first look at The Armory Show 2010. This year’s edition introduces Armory Focus, a new section that features an important art community every year. The new section is premiering with Berlin, presenting 21 galleries from Germany’s capital. In total, The Armory Show features 267 galleries from 31 countries. The Armory Show 2010, [...]

Purchase Not By Moonlight at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, MOCA, is Anri Sala’s first major museum exhibition in the US. The show features seven films from the late 1990s to the present including a new film, Answer Me, along with photographs and sculptures. The installation explores a dialogue about the interplay of [...]

With the opening of the Museum Brandhorst in Munich’s “Kunstareal”, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen gain an institution with an impressive collection of works of modern and contemporary art. The Museum Brandhorst is the new home of the Udo and Anette Brandhorst Collection. Two focal points of emphasis give the Brandhorst Collection its character. With more than [...]

During our stay in Miami we had the chance to meet with Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni. Piero Lissoni hosted a book signing and cocktail reception at the Dellis Cay VIP booth at the Art Collectors Lounge of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Piero Lissoni is one of the world-renowned architects who have been [...]

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 [...]

A more contemplative view of Rudolf Stingel’s exhibition LIVE at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin. The dominant element of the exhibition is a giant carpet, that covers the entire floor of Mies van der Rohe’s landmark building New National Gallery. The images have been taken while the press conference was held on the lower floor of the [...]

Today internationally active star architects are designing and building spectacular new wineries around the world. The exhibition “WineArchitecture. The winery boom” presents for the first time, a well-researched Austrian survey supplemented and shown in context by the use of other examples of wine architecture from around the world. The focus is in particular on the [...]

Interview with Established & Sons CEO Alasdhair Willis. The British design and manufacturing company Established & Sons received Design Miami/ Basel’s first “Designer of the Future” award “because of their visionary approach has forged a new model for design companies of the 21st century.” (PR Design Miami/ Basel). Alasdhair Willis was a founding member and [...]

The Design Miami/ Basel Designer of the Future Award recognizes an emerging designer or collective that has been practicing for less than 15 years. This year, the Selection Committee chose Swedish design collective Front. Front is Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte von der Lancken, Anna Lindgren and Katja Sävström. At Design Miami/ Basel they present an on-site [...]

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 [...]

London-based designer Julia Lohmann is one of the four designers / design collectives who have been awarded Design Miami/ Basel’s “Designers of the Future 2008” prize. Julia Lohmann’s response to the concrete and wool brief set by Design Miami/ Basel is based on research into manmade structures that are exposed to the elements, re-conquered by [...]

This is an interview with Hannes Koch, part of the design collective rAndom International (together with Stuart Wood and Flo Ortkrass). At this year’s Design Miami Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery presented rAndom International’s Audience. Audience is an installation conceived by rAndom International in collaboration with Chris O’Shea. It consists of around 64 head-size mirror objects. [...]