Pulse New York

March 5-9, 2009, New York
The 4th edition of PULSE, the largest US art fair dedicated solely to contemporary art, saw a 35% jump in attendance and was home to steady sales. The 17,000 art enthusiasts who visited the fair from March 5-8 constituted the highest attendance to date, showing that it had “continued to [...]

Xth Biennale de Lyon

From 16 September 2009
to 3 January 2010
La Sucrière
Museum of Contemporary Art Bullukian Foundation
Bichat Warehouse
We are living in the society of the spectacle. In spite of its alienating effects on our life and social relationships, it’s one of the very fundamental conditions of our existence. We perceive the world and communicate with each other through the [...]

Kustaa Saksi

Kustaa Saksi’s illustrations are a syrupy disarray of elements: playful, paradoxical, often over-glossy, inviting, troubling, messy, and yet strangely clear. Radiating meaning, bending what’s real and distilling what’s unreal he combines organic touches and viscous shapes into new world psychedelia. After spending many years in Paris, the Finnish born illustrator found his studio on the [...]

Hall of Fragments – Venice Biennale

Rockwell Group, in collaboration with Jones + Kroloff, designed “Hall of Fragments,” the entrance installation to “Out There: Architecture Beyond Building,” the main exhibition for the 2008 11th annual Venice Architecture Biennale. Passage through the installation disengages visitors from the bricks and mortar of Venice and connects them to the alternative world of “Architecture Beyond [...]

Urban Umbrella

Notes from an Architectural Exhibition in Talca.
by Mauricio Ramírez Molina *

The initial idea was thought provoking: construct a covering using 400 red umbrellas (outside of their intended purpose) suspended over the new pedestrian mall in the city of Talca to create a visual impression of the inhabitants of a city in which it [...]

Docks Art Fair 09

Strong of the success of its first edition in 2007, Docks Art Fair, the international contemporary art fair of Lyon, will be held again during the inaugural week of the Biennial event of contemporary art of Lyon, from 14 till 20 September 2009. Situated on docks in edge of the Saône, Docks Art Fair will [...]

Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

April 28, 2009–October 25, 2009 (weather permitting)
The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York City, 212-570-3828
Maelstrom, Roxy Paine’s magnificently intricate installation currently on the roof garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is to date the most prominent offspring of a rapidly evolving typology, lifesize
tree golems rendered in stainless steel.  Paine [...]