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James Rosenquist worked on large-scale throughout his career. Since 1980 Rosenquist has painted six vast “billboard paintings”, three of which are on display at Haunch of Venison’s “Z Room” at The Old Truman Brewery in London. Work of James Rosenquist is also shown at Haunch of Venison’s venues 6 Haunch of Venison Yard and Bruton [...]

This is the second part of our coverage of the 42nd International Fair for Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Cologne, 2008. April 17, 2008. Like last year, the fair features the Open Space area, the Young Artists program, the “Hidden Treasures” and the “New Talents”. What’s new: Daniel Hug has been named the new director [...]

The group Sedzia Glowny (Chief Judge) – Karolina Wiktor and Aleksandra Kubiak – has radicalized the Polish performance-art scene. Since 2001, this unusual duo has been pushing the limits of human exhaustion to the further point of serious health conditions. Ania Ejsmont met up with the duo on the occasion of their recent retrospective titled [...]

The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is a not-for-profit collective of professionals working with contemporary art. The 4th edition of NADA’s fair in Miami features 82 galleries from 20 countries around the world. 26 exhibitors are new to the fair. NADA 2006 features several solo artist booths such as Workplace Gallery from Gateshead, England presenting [...]

Currently, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich presents “Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project” by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson (born 1967). Olafur Eliasson was commissioned by the car company BMW to design the 16th BMW Art Car. What sets Eliasson’s “car” apart from previous Art Cars is that it is not recognizable as a car [...]

Zaha Hadid Architecture – Projects and Built Work at the Architectural Museum Basel. No. 2 in VTV’s REMIX series. Video showing impressions from the opening of the exhibition. Architekturmuseum Basel / Switzerland. September 9, 2005, Click image or this link to watch video.

In the Desert of Modernity – Colonial Planning and After is an exhibition at the House of World Cultures (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) in Berlin, that focuses on the European modernization fantasies in colonial North Africa. The car-oriented city, the underground car park and other projects were intended as a blueprint for Europe’s metropolises, [...]

The Vitra Design Museum is the first building that Star Architect and Prizker Prize-winner Frank O. Gehry realized in Europe. In total there are four buildings by Frank Gehry in the Basel region: the Vitra furniture factory and the Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, the Vitra headquarters in Birsfelden, and the building on the [...]

Zaha Hadid’s ideal house at IMM Cologne appears as a big, red cube, hollowed out and morphed into a sequence of rooms that lead into one another and also open up wide to the outside. Zaha Hadid’s ideal house cologne “retains the traditional form of the home as a unit and protective shell. The rest, [...]

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 [...]

Beyond the Screen, the current exhibition at Gallery [DAM] Berlin, offers an insight into the world of “fabbing” – digital fabrication. Fabbing allows for the production of structures and surfaces exceeding the limits of digital mass production. By using specific software to control these tools, artists and designers are able to realize unimaginable complex objects. [...]

Luigi Colani: Translating Nature at the Design Museum London. Final part of the exhibition walkthrough with curator Dr. Albrecht Bangert. Design Museum London, May 17, 2007. Part 3/3. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > DVD available. Related Articles:Luigi Colani: Translating Nature / Design Museum London / part 2/3Luigi Colani: [...]

On the second stop of our gallery tour in Madrid we visited La Fabrica. La Fabrica Galeria is located near the famous Museo del Prado, the newly opened CaixaForum and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía – in the heart of Madrid’s “triangle of art”. The gallery focuses on international contemporary art, with [...]

In April 2009 Design Miami and Fendi startet the Craft Punk project that built upon the Design Miami’s Design Performance program, which was intended to showcase “design in action” and to allow Design Miami visitors to get insight into the process underlying the creation of experimental design. For Design Miami 2009, the design fair presented [...]

The retrospective “Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture” at the Vitra Design Museum covers a period of 60 years – from Le Corbusier’s early works in his Swiss hometown of La Chaux-de-Fonds to the late works of the 1950s and 1960s (Chapel of Ronchamp, Indian city of Chandigarh). “Divided into three largely independent sections [...]