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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, [...]

In the second part of the interview with Fernando Botero on the occasion of his solo show at Galerie Gmurzynska, Fernando Botero talks about why he paints faces like objects, the importance of volume in his work, and his love for still lives. Interview with Fernando Botero at Galerie Gmurzynska, Zürich. Part 2/2. Zürich, Switzerland, [...]

The exhibition Fiat Lux at the gallery Ruzicska in Salzburg, Austria, gathers works that deal with light by Jenny Holzer (“Four Corners: Truisms, Living” and “Torso”), Brigitte Kowanz (“Ad infinitum”, “Brightness”, “Remoteness” and “Vision”), François Morellet (“4 à 4 no. 3″ and “Lunatique neonly – 16 quarts de cercle No. 6″), Maurizio Nannucci (“Listen to [...]

Until the 7th February 2009 the gallery Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio in Zurich, Switzerland, presents two artists, Beth Campbell and Stephen Willats. The exhibition is titled Social Interactions: Beth Campbell / Stephen Willats. Campbell and Willats are of separate generations and educational experience. Beth Campbell was born in the USA in 1971. She recently participated in [...]

Galerija Gregor Podnar is based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. At Art Basel the gallery presents the artists Attila Csörgö, Alexander Gutke, Irwin, Goran Petercol and Tobias Putrih. Director Gregor Podnar talks about the gallery’s program and the works on show at Art Basel. Art Premiere, Art Basel 37, Basel, Switzerland. June 17, 2006. > Click image [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Since last year, we have been following the development of an ambitious project on the Caribbean island Dellis Cay. Dellis Cay is the project of Dr. Cem Kinay, Chairman and CEO of the real estate development group O Property Collection. Kinay purchased the 560 acre island (part of the Turks and Caicos archipelago) and commissioned [...]

Piero Lissoni is one of the designers who have been commissioned to give the luxury resort Dellis Cay a shape. He has designed the Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay and The Residences at Mandarin Oriental. Piero Lissoni was born in 1956 in Seregno, Italy. He studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. Piero Lissoni lives and [...]

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 [...]

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.

On the occasion of the exhibition Design High at Louise Blouin Foundation in London VernissageTV met up with Joep van Lieshout, who presented the work Wombhouse in the show. In this video, Joep van Lieshout talks about his background, his work between the poles of art and design, how his work changed over the years, [...]

At Art 40 Basel, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin presented a 6-foot Takashi Murakami sculpture, made in collaboration with the U.S. record producer and designer Pharrell Williams. The object is titled The Simple Things. It features a glass-fiber, steel and acrylic head based on Takashi Murakami’s cartoon-inspired signature character Mr. Dob. In its mouth you find objects [...]

From February 19th to May 16th 2010, La Maison Rouge in Paris, France presents Vinyl, an exhibition of records and covers compiled by the British collector, publisher and curator Guy Schraenen. For more than 30 years, Guy Schraenen’s fascination with artists’ multiples (objects, catalogues, books, magazines) has led him to amass a unique and highly [...]

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 [...]