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In this video: a topless car, funny noise, art fair venues, the streets of Basel, Art 39 Basel Public Art Projects. Part 2/2. Fairs during Art Basel Week 2008 are: Art Basel, Volta, The Solo Project, Liste, Scope, Design Miami, Hot Art Fair Bâlelatina. June 1, 2008. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download [...]

“…Chiang’s work certainly has that character, but to call it ironic would seem a too-easy relief of the work’s animating tensions. For example, the myth of Narcissus bears no uncertain irony, yet Chiang’s series of mirrors, Untitled (2003-2005), whose grounds she etched so as to leave only the familiar bands of “iloveyouiloveyou…”, challenge such an [...]

Norma Jeane: #Jan25 (#Sidibouzid, #Feb12, #Feb14, #Feb17…) Norma Jeane at Venice Biennale 2011, Giardini di Castello, Venice / Italy, June 2, 2011. More info via VTV contemporary art search Norma Jeane: Links | Videos | Images | More Images | Books > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file.

The first time Jack Hanley came to Cologne was in the 1990s when he participated in the Unfair art fair, later he did the main fair Art Cologne. For his booth at NADA Cologne he brought an installation by Karen Kilimnik from 1994 when she did a lot of scatter installations, and works by Ben [...]

Jenny Holzer created a site-specific light projection for the newly renovated facade of the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in New York. The Guggenheim Museum commissioned the piece to mark the completion of the museums’s three-year restoration project. Jenny Holzer’s work, entitled “For the Guggenheim” will be on display from dusk to 11 pm every Friday [...]

Since May 24, 2008 the city Bolzano / Bozen in the north of Italy is proud to present the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Museion with the opening show “Peripheral vision and collective body”. The new building corresponds to a redefinition of the entire Museion project: as an institution, Museion has been managed since [...]

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 [...]

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”, [...]

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 [...]

The High Line in New York City is a rather new place for New Yorkers to relax and enjoy the city. The pedestrian walkway and park was created by the non-profit Friends of the High Line along a former elevated rail spur in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. The first section of the part, from [...]

Energy Conscience is a concept by designer Christian Jung. He developed a series of “energy parasites” which use different machines, like a washing machine, to produce energy that can be used by mobile phones, digital cameras and other devices. Faculty of Design at Hochschule Pforzheim University, Werkschau, Pforzheim, Germany, July 14, 2007. > Right-click (Mac: [...]

Interview with producer Laurence Desarzens about Resfest Switzerland 2005. Resfest is a film festival taking place in several cities in Africa, America, Asia, Australia and Europe. Zurich is the tour city in Switzerland with Resfest Switzerland being produced by Laurence Desarzens and Monica Pozzi. This year’s festival was held at the movie theater Riffraff in [...]

The Golden Lion for best artist in curator Daniel Birnbaum’s Fare Mondi / Making Worlds art exhibition at the 53rd Venice Biennale went to German artist Tobias Rehberger. Tobias Rehberger designed the cafeteria at the Biennale pavilion (formerly known as Italian Pavilion). The jury stated: “Tobias Rehberger is awarded the Golden Lion as best artist [...]

The design fair Design Miami has selected the German designer Konstantin Grcic as this year’s recipient of the Designer of the Year Award. The fair has commissioned him to produce a new piece for the fair, and presented an exhibition of highlights from Konstantin Grcic’s career, curated by Grcic himself. In this conversation with VernissageTV’s [...]

In addition to the presentation of design galleries and design objects, Design Miami/ Basel set up a series of live design performances and design films that bring the theme of “Performance/Process” to life. Design Miami/ Basel presents the following Design Performances: Tom Dixon / The Micro Factory; ECAL / Mold Lamp; Martino Gamper / If [...]