Eagerly anticipated by the international art world, Art Basel Miami Beach will make its debut in December. This new international art show in Florida is the American sister-event of Art Basel in Switzerland, the most important annual art fair in the world. An exclusive selection of 150 leading art galleries from North America, Latin America, ...
Essays by Ursina Barandun, Klaus Baumgartner, Michael Baumgartner, Stefan Frey, Christine Hopfengart, Benedikt Loderer, Andreas Marti, Lorenz Meyer, Tilman Osterwold, Rolf Soiron, Adrian Weber, and Kasper Zehnder, et. al.
Switzerland's Galerie Beyeler, the precursor to today's renowned Beyeler Foundation, had its beginnings 60 years ago. Since that time, approximately 16,000 artworks--including paintings, sculptures and works on paper, but not including prints and editions--have passed through Baumleingasse 9, the Basel address where Ernst and Hildy Beyeler first ...
Switzerland's Art Basel is widely considered to be the world's most important art fair, and its sister event, Art Basel Miami Beach, is fast on its heels. This winter, Art Basel Miami Beach's exclusive roster of fewer than 200 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, South Africa and Asia will exhibit twentieth-and twenty-first ...
New York artist Raossa Venables has said that her altered color photographs, dreamlike interiors, "aim to provoke a visceral interpretation of the ordinary places of our lives." They are spaces created--as in a dream--by combining the real with the remembered, the feared and the desired, interweaving parts of existing parlors, hallways, staircases ...
For more than three decades, the private collector Peter C. Ruppert and his wife Rosemarie have been building up an art collection consisting of more than 245 works. Their collection serves to illustrate and document the expansion and development of Concrete Art throughout Europe from 1945 until today. This book presents an extensive overview of ...
Since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has served as an interdisciplinary platform for everyone who uses the computer to implement and design creative projects at the interface of art, technology and society. This volume documents Ars Electronica 2008 with a selection of symposia, artist discussions, forums, workshops, concerts, performances and ...
"In April 1919 Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. Until 1925, the year it moved to Dessau, this was the meeting-place for the wide spectrum of often contradicory ideas, utopias and experiments that formed the basis of the institution's renown. With more than 400 illustrations, this book illustrates the achivements of the Weimar ...
Art Basel is an annual meeting-point for artists, gallery owners, collectors, curators, critics and art lovers, and is perhaps the largest and most important art fair in the world. This catalogue of the work presented at Art 37 Basel, with more than 500 color illustrations, offers a comprehensive survey of what's available on the international art ...
The Herrenhauser Garten in Hanover belongs among the most beautiful parks in Germany. Its Groser Garten was begun in 1666 and constitutes one of the most important baroque grounds in Europe. The north-western part of this treasure houses the grotto, built in 1676. The three rooms, originally decorated with mussels, crystals, glass and minerals, ...
The Art Basel fair looks back on a long and rich tradition, and is also the largest and most important art fair in the world. It offers a comprehensive overview of modern and contemporary art, and, at the same time, has been the annual meeting-point of the international art world, attracting artists, gallery owners, collectors, curators, critics ...
Art Basel is the largest and most important art fair in the world. This catalogue features over 300 color illustrations from Art 39 Basel, and so offers the broadest survey of the international art market at the beginning of the twenty-first century. More than 2000 artists and 275 leading galleries from all continents are listed.
To the "Wall Street Journal," it's "Europe's most prestigious twentieth-century art fair;" to the "New York Times," the "Olympics of the Art World." Either way it's one of the most glamorous and important international art fairs going. This comprehensive catalogue fits 275 top galleries between two covers--550 illustrations, 700-plus pages--for ...
In 1942, New York art collector Peggy Guggenheim commissioned Friedrich Kiesler to design a gallery museum, to be called Art of This Century, for her collection of surrealist and abstract art. The resulting design, with its kinetic devices and biomorphic furniture, is, to this day, among the most exceptional spaces created for the display of art. ...
The visual impression made by a world exhibition is largely dependent on the quality of its architecture, and this year the Hannover EXPO 2000 is stunning visitors with an especially wide range of attractions: from futuristic bridge constructions to invitingly designed commons to modern traffic buildings. The pavilions of the individual nations ...
Since 1987, the year of its inception, the Prix Ars Electronica--the largest cyberarts prize in the world, financially and otherwise--has served as a barometer for trends in the digital arts. It documents shifts in societal and artistic approaches, perspectives and aesthetics. And contemporary media arts are undergoing fundamental changes, not ...
For the first time, 150 works from the very valuable Pisces Collection will be exhibited in Donaueschingen to the international public. The Pisces Collection of contemporary art is continually being expanded, with the emphasis on plastic arts, painting and photography of the eighties and nineties. The collection contains works by John M Armleder, ...
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