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Art Platform is a new art fair in Los Angeles, organized by Merchandise Mart (Armory Show, Volta) at the L.A. Mart in Downtown Los Angeles. The fair presents modern and contemporary art and features dealers such as Max Wigram Gallery, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, Patrick Painter Inc., Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, ACME and Marc Selwyn [...]

“French society, and especially Parisian, is gluttonous,” Claude Lévi-Strauss has famously said, “Every five years or so, it needs to stuff something new in its mouth.” The same goes for the contemporary artworld: It is about new things to satisfy age-old desires. Is gluttony in art consumption contagious? The panel discussion at the art fair [...]

The Peter Kilchmann Gallery presents the fifth solo exhibition by the Swiss artist Zilla Leutenegger (born 1968, lives and works in Zurich). Zilla Leutenegger shows four new video installations entitled “Prada”, “Lucellino”, “torch”, and “The Infinite Space”. Furthermore, a series of differently sized watercolor drawings are diplayed, presenting pieces of furniture. A new catalogue is [...]

Mickey Mouse, Superman, Little Nemo, Spiderman, Tintin, Blake et Mortimer, Astérix, Iznogoud, Blueberry, Batman, Le Chat… These characters and heroes bron from the pen of the great authors of comics have not only delighted millions of readers around the world, but have also influenced artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Takashi Murakami, Jean-Michel Basquiat, [...]

After having established Frieze Art Fair in London very successfully, Frieze is expanding its fair business to the other side of the pond this year. Frieze Art Fair New York brings the usual suspects to New York’s Randall’s Island. 180 of the world’s leading contemporary galleries show their artists and their works. The question is: [...]

For the 2009 edition of the design fair Design Miami, architect and designer Greg Lynn created the HSBC Lounge and a large installation for Swarovski Crystal Palace. Greg Lynn’s installation for Swarovski extends over 80 square metres and reaches over seven metres in heigh. The ‘walls’ and ‘ceiling’ are made of Swarovski crystal-encrusted suspended panels [...]

Interview with Marion Kuzmany, responsible for the excursions at the Az W. The Architekturzentrum Wien is a living exhibition space with changing exhibitions and the central aim to mediate architecture as a cultural discipline, as an everyday phenomenon and as a complex process. VTV is talking with Marion Kuzmany about the center’s activities and influence, [...]

Within the framework of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, art curator, critic and art historian Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted live public interviews with every Biennale participant. The six-day live marathon took place in the Arsenale from August 22 through 27. Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed artists and architects such as Kazuyo [...]

Global Street Food is the latest project by German designer / creative director / curator / artist Mike Meiré. At Vitra’s Art Basel Party we had the opportunity to have a look at Global Street Food and spoke with Mike Meiré and Andreas Dornbracht of kitchen and bathroom brand Dornbracht. Global Street Food is part [...]

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 [...]

When Pharrell Williams, in an interview at Art Basel 2009, philosophied about the simple things in life, we got the message. So this exhibition is something for him: Vitra Design Museum’s latest show Hidden Heroes. The Genius of Everyday Things in the Buckminster Fuller Dome at the Vitra Campus, a tribute to the products that [...]

Berlinomat is a platform that does not only have design from Berlin in its name. The products which are sold there are from Berlin or made by Berlin designers. The director of the shop on Frankfurter Allee, Anja Leber, talks about the concept of the shop. Owners: Jörg Wichmann and Theresa Meirer. Berlinomat, Berlin, September [...]

For this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach Reception, the Wolfsonian-FIU design museum presented the exhibition “Speed Limits” and the performance art collaboration “Seduce Me” by Isabella Rossellini, Andy Byers, and Rick Gilbert. In this video we focus on the reception and the exhibiton “Speed Limits” and exchange a few words with Cathy Leff, Director of [...]

The Design Miami/ Basel Designer of the Future Award recognizes an emerging designer or collective that has been practicing for less than 15 years. This year, the Selection Committee chose Swedish design collective Front. Front is Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte von der Lancken, Anna Lindgren and Katja Sävström. At Design Miami/ Basel they present an on-site [...]

Dr. Cem Kinay is the CEO and Chairman of O Property Collection, and the developer and owner of Dellis Cay. Dellis Cay is a 560-acre private island located in the Turks & Caicos, British West Indies, 575 miles south of Miami, Florida. Dr. Cem Kinay commissioned the architects / designers Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, Kengo [...]