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Caryn Coleman is owner/director of the contemporary art gallery Sixspace in Los Angeles and runs the art blog art.blogging.la. Caryn Coleman talks about her blog, the LA art scene, the gallery, and its program. We met her at Aqua Art Fair 2006 in Miami. December 8, 2006. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download [...]

Between May 9th-12th 2007, the Korea International Art Fair held its sixth annual edition at the COEX Exhibition Halls in Seoul. Following the invitation of the Korean galleries at ARCO in Madrid, Spain has been invited as the guest country of KIAF 2007. This video includes a general view of the exhibition “New Contemporary Art [...]

Hans Holbein the Younger at the Kunstmuseum Basel presents for the first time in almost five decades an important part of the extant works from Holbeins Basel years from 1515 to 1532. It is an extraordinary collection of some forty paintings, one hundred drawings and numerous prints. Curated by Christian Müller, this exhibition will provide [...]

Louise Bourgeois was one of the most exceptional artists of our time. Her life and work inspired many artists of younger generations such as Tracy Emin or Robert Gober. To honor her 100th birthday, the Fondation Beyeler is devoting an homage to Louise Bourgeois by placing her work in dialog with the museum’s permanent collection, [...]

The Kuala Lumpur-based art space 12 set up a photo studio at the international art fair Art Stage Singapore 2012. The installation is based on a photography studio in Tangkak, Malaysia that opened in 1964 and still operates to this day. The installation also features work by the artists Shooshie Sulaiman, Ismail Hashim, Ahmad Fuad [...]

For the 2009 edition of the design fair Design Miami, architect and designer Greg Lynn created the HSBC Lounge and a large installation for Swarovski Crystal Palace. Greg Lynn’s installation for Swarovski extends over 80 square metres and reaches over seven metres in heigh. The ‘walls’ and ‘ceiling’ are made of Swarovski crystal-encrusted suspended panels [...]

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”, [...]

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, [...]

As part of our trip to Madrid we visited the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC) in Sevilla, Spain (2.20 hours away from Madrid by High Speed Train). Located right in the front of the CAAC we encountered an installation by Matthew Richie, titled The Morning Line. The installation was commissioned by the Thyssen Bornemisza [...]

Interview with Frank Joss, initiator and director of the ArchitectureTalks. Frank Joss has been responsible for independently organising the architecture symposium with his team since 2004. With a new name and a new location, the first edition of the ArchitectureTalks Lucerne took place in 2005 in the Culture & Convention Centre Lucerne, designed by French [...]

Global Street Food is the latest project by German designer / creative director / curator / artist Mike Meiré. At Vitra’s Art Basel Party we had the opportunity to have a look at Global Street Food and spoke with Mike Meiré and Andreas Dornbracht of kitchen and bathroom brand Dornbracht. Global Street Food is part [...]

For his Real Time Project, Dutch designer Maarten Baas became a film director. Thanks to new technologies in video, it’s possible to produce videos of 12- or even 24 hours in length. This makes it possible to film a movie that can function as a clock. Maarten Baas created a clock collection by using the [...]

Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Avant-garde Pathways at the Museo Picasso Málaga is the first retrospective of the work of Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp in Spain. The show presents over 130 exhibits that include paintings, drawings, collages, textiles, puppets, plans, photographs, sculptures and furniture. The exhibition is divided into three sections: Broken Rhythm examines the work from her [...]

Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture is the current exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Le Corbusier (1887 – 1965) is probably the most influential architect of the 20th Century. The retrospective aims to address the many aspects that still make Le Corbusier’s work such an important point of [...]

At Design Miami/ Basel 2007 we met dealer Philippe Jousse of Jousse Entreprise, Paris. Jousse Entreprise (founded 1997) represents mid-20th century architects´ furniture. Philippe Jousse talks about the gallery and the works brought to the fair. Design Miami/ Basel 2007, June 11, 2007. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file.