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Galerie Katharina Krohn in Basel presents new paintings by Swiss artist Nicole Schmölzer. In these paintings, the color yellow plays in important role. “Yellow interests her partly because it is extremely difficult to replicate, its presence an act of resistance to the age of mechanical (and digital) reproduction. With yellow—even more than with other colors—you [...]

15 artists from Asia, Europe, Latin America and the U.S. have been invited to create outdoor murals on the warehouse walls of Miami’s Wynwood Art District for the Wynwood Walls Outdoor Mural Project. Participating artists are Aiko, Jim Drain, Shepard Fairey, Stelios Faitakis, Futura, Barry McGee, Nunca, OS Gemeos/Nina/Finok, Ara Peterson, Clare Rojas, Kenny Scharf, [...]

The St. Moritz Art Masters‘ “Walk of Art” was inaugurated with a cocktail reception at Galerie Gmurzynska St. Moritz. Currently, the gallery shows the exhibition “Modern & Contemporary Masters”. On display are works by, among others, Robert Indiana, Fernando Botero, Yves Klein, Karl Lagerfeld, and Henri Matisse. Galerie Gmurzynska is known as a leading gallery [...]

Part 2 of the interview with Amanda Sharp at the Frieze Art Fair. The Frieze Art Fair takes place every October in Regent’s Park, London. It features over 150 contemporary art galleries in the world and includes specially commissioned artists’ projects and an ambitious talks programme. Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover are the founders / [...]

Kate MacGarry has been invited to present new works by artist Francis Upritchard at Art Cologne, Open Space section. On display are the two works Dark Table and Light Table. In this video, Kate MacGarry tells us more about the artist who presented New Zealand at the 53rd Venice Biennale, the work on display, and [...]

With the opening of the Museum Brandhorst in Munich’s “Kunstareal”, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen gain an institution with an impressive collection of works of modern and contemporary art. The Museum Brandhorst is the new home of the Udo and Anette Brandhorst Collection. Two focal points of emphasis give the Brandhorst Collection its character. With more than [...]

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, [...]

Madelon Vriesendorp is a Dutch artist best known as one of the co-founders of the Office of Metropolitan Architecture in the early 1970s (together with Rem Koolhaas and Elia and Zoe Zenghelis). She is most famous for the painting “Flagrant Delit” which was the cover illustration of Delirious New York, the book that Rem Koolhaas [...]

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 [...]

James Turrell is famous for his work with light and space. He is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater, where he is turning a volcanic crater outside Flagstaff, Arizona, into a monumental work of art. In Zuoz, Switzerland, James Turrell realized one of his skyspaces, rooms that are conceived to enable viewers [...]

At Design Miami/ Basel 2007 we met dealer Philippe Jousse of Jousse Entreprise, Paris. Jousse Entreprise (founded 1997) represents mid-20th century architects´ furniture. Philippe Jousse talks about the gallery and the works brought to the fair. Design Miami/ Basel 2007, June 11, 2007. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file.

The exhibition i-Kosmos (i-Cosmos) at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main is an investigation on the role of design for the success of Apple in the computer and entertainment business. i-Cosmos: The Might, Myth and Magic of a Brand is the world’s first comprehensive show on the design of iDevices as well [...]

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 [...]

With Home Stories (MyHome – Seven experiments for contemporary living), leading designers and architects of the younger generation turn the Vitra Design Museum into a visionary living space intended to be used by visitors. Experimental installations and political design statements by Hella Jongerius, Jurgen Bey, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Fernando & Humberto Campana, Greg Lynn, [...]

Naoto Fukasawa’s cube at IMM Cologne “takes the visitor through a monumental and reduced arrangement of massive, room-high wallplates. The philosophical appearance of the furniture arrangement in his ideal house destances itself from the surroundings and radiates contemplative peace” (PR IMM Cologne). Statements by Naoto Fukasawa, IMM Cologne 2007, Ideal House Cologne 07. > Click [...]