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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 [...]

During Art Basel Miami Beach 2010, The Wolfsonian-FIU design museum in Miami Beach was showcasing the temporary exhibition “Speed Limits” and “Seduce Me”, an installation / presentation by Isabella Rossellini, Andy Byers, and Rick Gilbert. After her highly praised “Green Porno”, Isabella Rossellini’s Award-winning comical series on how animals mate, she and her collaborators Andy [...]

The gallery Labor in Mexico City opened its new space with a solo exhibition of the Mexican artist Pedro Reyes. The show is titled Rompecabezas (puzzle, jigsaw). Pedro Reyes was born in 1972 in Mexico City. Reyes lives and works in Mexico City. Pedro Reyes: Rompecabezas. Labor Gallery, Mexico City. Opening reception, April 16, 2012. [...]

Leo Koenig presents the booth of his gallery at the Armory Show 2007. Interview: Theodore Bouloukos. The Armory Show 2007, New York. February 22, 2007. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download video file.

Scott Hug assumes many guises in the New York art scene, from artist and curator, to graphic designer and publisher of K48, the diminutive art magazine with gargantuan ideas and fabulous friends. In “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late,” his current solo show at John Connelly Presents (October 11 – November 21, 2007), he has [...]

The World of Madelon Vriesendorp at the Swiss Architecture Museum is an exhibition that for the first time ever brings together Madelon Vriesendorp’s wildly diverse practices from the past forty years. Madelon Vriesendorp is one of the founding members of the OMA Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975 (together with Rem Koolhaas and Elia and [...]

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 [...]

In an exhibition in the seven-window room of the Kunstmuseum Basel, the museum presents models, plans and visualizations of the planned annex building. The purpose of the extension is to create much needed space for special exhibitions and to provide a appropriate presentation of the valuable works of art from the museum’s public art collection. [...]

According to Swiss curator and art critic Hans Ulrich Obrist, Madelon Vriesendorp is an “almost unknown artist genius”. The exhibition The World of Madelon Vriesendorp at the Swiss Architecture Museum aims to redress this discrepancy and situate Vriesendorp in her rightful place within late 20th century culture. This video documents the talk Madelon Vriesendorp held [...]

Zaha Hadid Architecture – Projects and Built Work at the Architectural Museum Basel. No. 2 in VTV’s REMIX series. Video showing impressions from the opening of the exhibition. Architekturmuseum Basel / Switzerland. September 9, 2005, Click image or this link to watch video.

In this video, Ingar Dragset of the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset talks about their exhibition “The Collectors” that they showed as representation of Denmark and Nordic Countries Finland, Norway and Sweden at the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009 – the idea behind the exhibition, how it came about, the different concepts for the Danish and the [...]

He is perhaps the most influential living industrial designer of modern times and some call him the Godfather of Apple design: Dieter Rams. For design addicts the similarities in the design philosophy of Dieter Rams’ designs for Braun during the second half of the 20th century and Jonathan Ive’s designs for Apple are obvious, but [...]

In the third part of the interview Luigi Colani talks about his relationship with colleague designers, his architectural projects in China, the Rotor House Project, and the needs and challenges of realizing a large flying wing passenger aircraft. More interviews with Luigi Colani: Conversation with Luigi Colani at Building Design Podcasts, interview at “Plastics – [...]

Thomas of Art-Netart presenting the new dvd’art called d-fuse by Matali Crasset and Jori Hulkonnen. October 6, 2005. FIAC contemporary art fair, Paris / France. October 6, 2005. Click image or this link to watch video.

Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) is considered as one of the most innovative interior architects and furniture designers of the 20th century. She developed designs for tubular steel furniture, particularly in cooperation with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. Beginning in the early 1930s, she discovered photography as a medium that provided important impulses for her work as [...]