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Last Thursday we attended Apexart’s premiere Fauxgala ’08 which featured a special event exhibition entitled the “The Man Piece, a Group Show” curated by Vanessa Walters including Jeremiah Clancy, Evan Collier, John Gregorio, Daniel Pettrow, Clayton Dean Smith, Eric Schmalenberger, and Andrew Schneider. We had the pleasure to document the festivities. Apexart: Fauxgala ’08. New [...]

The Art Public Opening Night of Art Basel Miami Beach featured a special performance by artist Theaster Gates and the Black Monks of Mississippi. With A Sermon On Art History, Theaster Gates and the Black Monks respond to the works of art that are displayed at Collins Park in song and verse. Theaster Gates is [...]

Volta art fair debuted in Basel, Switzerland and now brings 52 international artists and galleries to New York during The Armory Week. The fair is located opposite the Empire State Building. What’s special about Volta New York is that all galleries present solo projects. The show has been curated by Amanda Coulson and Christian Viveros-Fauné [...]

The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse is a not-for-profit institution in Miami dedicated to the presentation of exhibitions and educational programs that explore contemporary art and culture. Until April 2009 the Collection presents a new exhibition. On display are Magdalena Abakanowicz’ Hurma, an epic figurative environment by the Polish sculptor; Isaac Julien’s Western Union: Small [...]

VernissageTV interview with Helen Allen, director of Pulse Art Fair. Pulse is an invitational art fair held annualy in Miami and New York. Interview: Theodore Bouloukos. Pulse Art Fair New York, March 11, 2006.With this and following interviews with gallery owners at Pulse New York 2006 we introduce Theodore Bouloukos as VernissageTV correspondent. Theodore is [...]

For the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Director and 2010 Pritzker Prize winner Kazuyo Sejima invited Hans Ulrich Obrist to realize the Now Interviews, six days of live public interviews. The Now Interviews will be on view from August 29 – November 21, 2010. 

From August 22 through 27, Obrist developed what he calls [...]

Topotek 1 are not the typical landscape architects. Topotek 1′s mission is to expand the possibilities of landscape architecture. On the occasion of the inauguration of their latest projects and their work on the competition for the redesign of the Flughafen Tempelhof site, VernissageTV met with the Topotek 1 principals Martin Rein-Cano and Lorenz Dexler. [...]

This is a the second part of a conversation between Madelon Vriesendorp and Shumon Basar, who curated the exhibition The World of Madelon Vriesendorp together with Stephan Trüby. The World of Madelon Vriesendorp. Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel / Switzerland, January 16, 2009. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. In 1976 [...]

In one of the largest halls of the Architecture Biennale’s Arsenale exhibition space, Transsolar and Tetsuo Kondo Architects created an artificial 800sqm cloud. A spiraling cantilevered ramp allows the visitors of the installation to experience the ethereal cloudscape from below, within, and above. The cloud is created through climate engineering. Creating the cloud is based [...]

“Form is Process”. “Mass Customization”. “Infinite Infinities”. “Number is All”. “The Moral Justification for Modernist Standardization… is no more”. “Professor Lalvani is continuing to explore the fundamental principles of geometry where Fuller left off”. This is what Design Miami visitors could read on the walls of the booth of the design gallery Moss from New [...]

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.

Part 2 of the interview with the curator of the exhibition Joe Colombo – Inventing the Future at the Vitra Design Museum, Mateo Kries, on January 20, 2006. One of the most successful designers of his time, Joe Colombo produced design classics such as the “Elda” armchair, the “Universale” chair or the lamp “Alogena”. In [...]

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 [...]

The Danner-Rotunda at Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich presents contemporary works from over hundred international goldsmiths. The exhibition is to a large extend drawn from the international collection of the Danner Foundation (Danner-Stiftung). The collection reflects the broad creative spectrum of modern jewelry arts, starting with the avant-garde artists of the 60′s [...]

Interview with Tony Joyce, global head of Marketing & Communications, HSBC Private Bank (UK) Limited. Tony Joyce talks about the reasons behind sponsoring Design Miami/ and the criteria the bank applies when it comes to decide which event or project to sponsor, and his personal involvement in the world of design. Design Miami/ Basel, HBSC [...]