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Dorsch Gallery was founded in 1991, originally located in the historic Parkway Drugs building off of Coral Way and SW 13th Avenue in Miami. It was one of the first galleries, along with Locust Projects and the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, that moved to what is now known as the Wynwood Art District. The gallery is [...]

For the Dutch Pavilion at the 52nd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2007, artist Aernout Mik developed a new, complex multi-channel video installation consisting of three works: Training Ground, Convergencies, and Mock Up. The video installation is embedded in an architectural intervention in the Dutch Pavilion. Aernout Mik “shows a mixture of staged [...]

Currently, the galleries BodhiBerlin and Volker Diehl present the first monograph exhibition entitled “BlindStars StarsBlind” in Germany of the Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta. Shilpa Gupta (born 1976) works in a variety of media, from photography to interactive installations. Shilpa Gupta’s work has been widely shown in the context of major group exhibitions including the Biennales [...]

At this year’s Art Basel, the galleries von Bartha, Basel, and Annely Juda Fine Art, London, in co-operation with Duve, Berlin, and P.P.O.W., New York, presented a large-scale installation by New York based artist Sarah Oppenheimer. Sarah Oppenheimer’s VP-41 is a periscope embedded within a particular architecture. The periscope itself is constructed out of bent [...]

Between the preview days of Venice Biennale 2011 and Art 42 Basel the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) and Art Cologne announced their collaboration for the 2012 edition of Art Cologne. NADA will exhibit for the first time at Art Cologne – Internationaler Kunstmarkt. VernissageTV had the chance to meet with the director of NADA, [...]

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 [...]

Iván Navarro’s work was already very present at ARCO, the contemporary art fair in Madrid, and now in New York his work seems to be omnipresent. At The Armory Show, one of the highlights was his site-specific installation at the booth of Paul Kasmin Gallery (see in our Armory Show coverage here). The gallery is [...]

During The Armory Show Week 2010, French architect Jean Nouvel was in New York for the preview of his new and nearly completed residential tower called 100 11th Avenue. The building is located at the intersection of 19th Street and the West Side Highway, along the Hudson River in Manhattan and facing another building by [...]

The CaixaForum Madrid is a new cultural center in the historical center of Madrid, near the renowned Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornemisza museums, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, the 2001 Pritzker Architecture Prize winners. The CaixaForum is a restoration and expansion of one of the few examples of industrial architecture in Madrid’s [...]

The Drawing Center presents Yona Friedman: About Cities (Feb. 24 – April 7, 2007), an exhibition of work by the Hungarian-French architect and artist, who, despite significant reputation in Europe, has never had a solo exhibition in the United States. Showcasing both Friedman’s urban-sociological concerns and his urban-design innovations, the exhibition introduces his work to [...]

Hochschule Pforzheim University is one of the world’s leading schools of design. In the final part of our Werkschau series at Hochschule Pforzheim University, Faculty of Design, Professor Thomas Gerlach talks about the University in general and specifically about the application and evaluation process at the Faculty of Design and the basic concepts of the [...]

For Design Miami 2011, Galerie VIVID of Rotterdam realized its second solo presentation with works by Studio Job. The main attraction of the presentation are five new unique pieces, Containers II. In this video, VIVID Gallery Co-Founder Aad Krol talks about Studio Job and their new works. In 2010 Studio Job created Piece for Peace [...]

The Wolfsonian design museum in the Art Deco district of Miami Beach, Florida, was founded in 1986 by Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. to show his personal design collection. In 1997 he donated the collection and its building to Florida International University. The museum mostly focuses on the late 19th to mid 20th century design. In this [...]

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 [...]

A conversation with Ambra Medda, co-founder and director of Design Miami/ Basel. In 2007, Design Miami/ Basel explores Process and Performance in contemporary and historic design. Ambra Medda talks about the new venue (the Markthalle, Basel), the participating design galleries, the special program with Design Performances, Design Exhibitions, Design Films, and Design Talks, and the [...]