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Gardar Eide Einarsson’s spray-painted steel sculpture that was on display within the framework of Art Basel Miami Beach’s Art Public section both relates to prison exercise equipment as well as to the concept of Minimalist sculpture. Placed on the beach near Collins Park, the beach-goers soon realized how to use it, as shown in this [...]

For the first time in its history, the Rubell Family Collection has dedicated its entire 45,000-square-foot museum space to a single exhibition. Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection presents a cross section of the artwork produced in Los Angeles over the past 20 years by 36 L.A.-based artists. Among the artists [...]

The Dark Fair is an experimental miniature art fair. It’s special in that it takes place without the use of natural or electric light. An international selection of galleries and artists are displaying work custom to these conditions, using candlelight, flashlights, oil lamps, work that glows in the dark, light sculpture, battery powered film and [...]

Galerie Römerapotheke starts into the new year with a solo exhibition with works by the artist Alexandre Joly. “Alexandre Joly work is based on an imaginary universe of the marvelous and the strange, the macabre and the playful. In installations and performances Alexandre Joly investigates acoustic creations, acoustic areas and objects. Nature and the animal [...]

This year’s ARCOmadrid_2010, the international art fair in Madrid, Spain, presents 238 galleries from 32 different countries. It’s the 29th issue of the international fair for contemporary art in Madrid, Spain. This video provides a walkthrough of ARCOmadrid_2010 on the first of the two days for professionals. This year’s guest city is Los Angeles. Coming [...]

Zaha Hadid Architecture – Projects and Built Work. Presentation of the project for the Neue Stadt-Casino Basel. Video showing impressions from the opening of the exhibition.
Museum of Architecture Basel / Switzerland. September 9, 2005. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file.

The Design Miami satellite exhibition Architecting the Future: Buckminster Fuller & Lord Norman Foster in Miami’s Design District is dedicated to two iconic inventions by architect, designer and inventor Buckminster Fuller: the Fly’s Eye Dome and the Dymaxion 4 car. In 1961, the Fly’s Eye Dome was envisioned by Fuller as a fully functional, air [...]

Listen to the speech of Zaha Hadid taken from the opening ceremony of the Science Center Phaeno. The Phaeno building, created and realized by Zaha Hadid Architects, London and Mayer Baehrle Architects, is already a milestone in the history of architecture. VernissageTV shows pictures of the Phaeno Science Center and the installations of Joe Ansel [...]

On March 1, 2011, the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City opened the doors of its new building with an inaugural event. The Museo Soumaya is a private art museum that was founded in 1994 by the Carlos Slim Foundation. It houses art collected by billionaire Carlos Slim and his late wife Soumaya. The collection includes [...]

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 [...]

The Wolfsonian is a remarkable design museum in the heart of the Art Deco District, Miami Beach. The Wolfsonian collection contains artifacts primarily of North American and European origin, dating from 1885 – 1945, which are presented in the Wolfsonian’s permanent exhibition “Art and Design in the Modern Age”. Current exhibitions are Fashioning the Modern [...]

Design Miami celebrated its opening with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. The design fair presented international design galleries exhibiting historic and contemporary design. Design Miami also features Design Talks, Design Satellite Exhibitions, art/design installations, and other various collaborations with designers, critics, curators, cultural institutions, gallerists and collectors throughout the Miami Design District. Impressions from the Vernissage. [...]

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; [...]

“Along with his studio Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (KGID) that was set up in 1991 he has made a name for himself through experiments with materials and a constructive individuality. KGID products are characterised by their everyday usefulness and formal restraint as well as by humour and perspicacity. These are the kind of products that [...]

At Design Miami/ Basel 2007 we met decorative arts consultant, dealer and design curator Cristina Grajales, Cristina Grajales served as director of 1950 Gallery in New York City from 1990 to 2000. “Grajales’s passion for many of the twentieth century’s greatest masters – among them Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Jean Prouvé and Charlotte Perriand – propelled [...]