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The exhibition “Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone” at the New Museum is the first solo show and retrospective of Mary Heilmann’s work in a New York museum. Mary Heilmann (born 1940 in San Francisco) is one of the most influential abstract painters of her generation and considered as a “painter’s painter”. In her work she [...]

Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz of artist duo Guerra de la Paz were both born in Cuba. Alain Guerra studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Neraldo de la Paz at the Northern Illinois University, De Kalb. They met in Chicago the day that Alain was moving back to Miami. [...]

Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection at New Museum in New York is the title of the first U.S. exhibition of the Dakis Joannou Collection from Athens, Greece. It’s also the first show curated by Jeff Koons. Skin Fruit includes over 100 works by 50 international artists spanning several generations. With Skin Fruit, [...]

While other artists paint with brushes, light, or sounds, American artist Wade Guyton (born in Hammond, Indiana in 1972) paints with an inkjet printer. For his exhibition at Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, Wade Guyton uses canvases with a width of 1.75 meters. Because the printer can only process half of the width, Wade Guyton [...]

Following the success of its inaugural show, LA Art in New York has expanded in 2007 to include 23 Los Angeles galleries. A new feature of the 2007 fair is the inclusion of 6 selected international guest galleries. LA Art in New York 2007. > Click image to watch quicktime video in new movie window. [...]

Until November 9, 2008, the Central Park in New York hosts Chanel Mobile Art and the Chanel Contemporary Art Container by Zaha Hadid. The futuristic pavilion designed by Prizker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid presents changing installations of works by contemporary artists from all over the world. Among the participating artists are Tabaimo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Loris [...]

At the presentation of the Velux Stiftung Daylight-Award presentation at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, Switzerland, another honorary award was given to Isa Stürm Urs Wolf Architects who realized a new (day-)light concept for the museum Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil-Jona. It’s an invention whereby the main structure of the building stays untouched. The jury [...]

The architect and urbanist David Rogers has been one of the speakers at the Architecture Talks Lucerne 2006: “Shopping-Miles And More”. We had the opportunity to talk with him on day one of the symposium. David Rogers is Senior Vice President of Jerde Partnership. He has been responsible for several of Jerde’s most innovative, award-winning [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Hørbar/Audiobar is an interactive sound installation by media artist Mogens Jacobsen (born 1959 in Rome, lives and works in Copenhagen). It was developed at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark. The user interacts with the sounds by placing bottles on a table. In this video, Mogens Jacobsen gives us a demonstration of how [...]

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 [...]

Monochrom is an international art-technology-philosophy group founded in 1993. VTV is talking with the “white heterosexual founding father” of monochrom, Johannes Grenzfurthner, about the beginnings of monochrom as a print magazine, the monochrom blog, his interest in the political message of cyberpunk science fiction and monochroms evolution to a group that works with different media [...]

Industrial designer Yves Béhar is know for his engagement in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. For OLPC he designed the XO laptop. In the second part of the interview with Yves Béhar at Baselworld 2010, he gives us an update on the OLPC project and talks about his work, the future of design [...]

Konstantin Grcic was born in Munich, Germany in 1965. After training as a cabinet maker at Parnham College in England he studied Design at the Royal College of Art in London from 1988-1990. Since setting up his own design practice Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design in Munich in 1991 he has developed furniture, products and lighting [...]