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Arndt & Partner Berlin is currently showing the installation “The Blue Period” (October 31 – December 20, 2007) by the American artist Jon Kessler (born in Yonkers, NY in 1957). Jon Kessler received a BFA from S.U.N.Y. at Purchase, New York and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Studio Program, New York. Since then Jon [...]

Luis Camnitzer is a conceptual artist who has been until very recently an insider’s tip. The solo exhibition at Daros Exhibitions in Zürich, Switzerland, offers visitors a close look at his work. The exhibition is drawn from the Daros Latinamerica Collection that possesses the world’s largest insitutional collection of Luis Camnitzer’s work. The exhibition has [...]

In association with his solo exhibition Scissors, Paper, Glue and Books I Can’t Cut Up at Studio 10 in Brooklyn, artist Tim Spelios staged two performances with his band, Mr. Klopp. Mr. Klopp are Tim Spelios (drums), Mark Deffenbaugh (guitar), John Sherman (accordion), and Tony Maimone (bass). They play an amalgam of Cajun, Blues, Country, [...]

With more than 400 drawings, videos, photographs, and sculptures, the Erwin Wurm retrospective at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Germany shows the most expansive show of the artist’s work to date. “Particularly for the Deichtorhallen Erwin Wurm created a spectacular new work, which resumes to the Viennese work of 2006 “House Attack”: The world 9 x [...]

Since the early 1980s, the Swiss artist Thomas Huber has created a unique body of work whose imagery remained very consistent over the years. Huber’s works show interiors of monumnetal architecture, impressive buildings in deserted cities, and pictures painted into other pictures. The retrospective at Mamco shows approximately four hundred paintings. The show is titled [...]

Richard Neutra is considered one of modernism’s most important architects. The Austrian architect was active primarily in Southern California. The exhibition Richard Neutra: Buildings and Projects 1960-1970 in Switzerland at the Swiss Architecture Museum focuses on the his projects in Switzerland. Between 1960 and 1970, Richard Neutra realized two housing developments and eight villas in [...]

During our stay in Miami we had the chance to meet with Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni. Piero Lissoni hosted a book signing and cocktail reception at the Dellis Cay VIP booth at the Art Collectors Lounge of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Piero Lissoni is one of the world-renowned architects who have been [...]

VernissageTV visited Jan Gluszak’s exhibition presented in Muzeum of Architecture in Poland. We spoke with Michał Duda, one of the curators of “Dagarama. Back to the Future”. Dagarama. Back to the Future at the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław, Poland is an exhibition about the Polish poet and philosopher, architecture visionary, dreamer and idealist Jan [...]

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 [...]

Last week, the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA was pre-opened to selected guests with a gala benefit dinner to honor long-time museum patrons Lynda and Stewart Resnick. The Resnick Pavilion was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano. Renzo Piano’s Resnick Pavilion is a key [...]

This is an interview with Hannes Koch, part of the design collective rAndom International (together with Stuart Wood and Flo Ortkrass). At this year’s Design Miami Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery presented rAndom International’s Audience. Audience is an installation conceived by rAndom International in collaboration with Chris O’Shea. It consists of around 64 head-size mirror objects. [...]

Interview with Established & Sons CEO Alasdhair Willis. The British design and manufacturing company Established & Sons received Design Miami/ Basel’s first “Designer of the Future” award “because of their visionary approach has forged a new model for design companies of the 21st century.” (PR Design Miami/ Basel). Alasdhair Willis was a founding member and [...]

For its 2008 edition, Design Miami moved from the Moore Building to a tent designed by the architecture and design firm Aranda/Lasch. This year, 23 galleries are participating in the fair and Design Miami inaugurates its own, curated exhibition entitled “Beyond Organic: Design in the State of Nature”. For the first time contemporary jewelry is [...]

This year’s Design Miami/ Basel moves even closer to the art fair Art Basel. The design fair takes place in Hall 5 of Messe Basel, with a direct passage to Art Basel’s Art Unlimited sector. The marketplace for limited-edition design features design galleries such as Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai; Droog, New York; Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London; [...]

One of the really great figures of design – Alessandro Mendini – is curating and designing a retrospective of the last 30 years of Italian design specially for Die Neue Sammlung. Alessandro Mendini focuses his exhibition on a key player in the design world: the Alessi company, which has very successfully morphed from a small [...]