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Grant & Mary Featherston, Stem Dining setting 1969, Photo: Grant & Mary Featherston Featherston Archive, National Gallery of Victoria, © Grant Featherston/Licensed by VISCOPY-Australia

DESIGN:Design For Life-Grant & Mary Featherston

An unapologetic idealist, Grant Featherston believed that design should benefit everyone and campaigned for professional, aesthetic and environmental standards. He shared this vision of ‘design for life’ and social responsibility with his partner Mary, with whom he established Featherston Design in 1965. Beginning with the landmark 1967 Montreal Expo Chair …

Voice of America

ART CITIES:N.York-Voice of America

Vito Acconci’s Installation at the Portland Center for Contemporary Arts “Voice of America” dates back to 1975. Two over-sized wooden chairs occupy …

ART CITIES:London-Beth Letain

Coming from a background in science, Beth Letain’s approach to painting is driven by an ‘imperative. The artist earned a BA from …

Michel Majerus, Exhibition view Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 2018, © Michel Majerus Estate, Photo: Jens Ziehe, Courtesy neugerriemschneider-Berlin and Matthew Marks Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Michel Majerus

Michel Majerus’s visual language freely samples from art history and popular culture, redeploying canonized styles and genres alongside graphics borrowed from youth …

ART NEWS:June 04

What at first appeared to be no more than an unspectacular artists’ book by Michael Oppitz and Lothar Baumgarten, published in 1974 …

Viewers interacting with Franz West, Passstücke (mit Video mit Verwendungstips), 1996, during the exhibition Franz West at David Zwirner-New York, 2014, © 2018 Archive Franz West

ART CITIES:N.York-This Is Not a Prop

In the early 1970s Franz West began making small-scale assemblages incorporating found materials such as cardboard, bandages, and wire, which he then …

Raphaela Vogel, Installation view, Ultranackt, view on Kopfschuss, 2018, Kunsthalle-Basel 2018, Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel, Courtesy of the artist; BQ-Berlin and Galerie Gregor Staiger-Zurich

ART CITIES:Basel-Raphaela Vogel

Raphaela Vogel’s work is located in the meeting of sculpture, video installation and performance and is characterized by an acute study of …

John Hogan, Iris Side Table, 2018, Blown Glass, 25 x 25 x 14, Courtesy of: The Future Perfect

DESIGN:Design Miami/Basel 2018

Each edition of Design Miami brings together the most influential collectors, gallerists, designers, curators and critics from around the world in celebration …

Martha Diamond, Cityscapes

ART CITIES:N.York-Martha Diamond

Born and educated in New York, Martha Diamond has developed an unmistakable personal language from the forms and sensations of the city. …

Walter Swennen, Ceux qui sont ici, sont d’ici, 2013, Oil, acrylic on canvas, 136 x 150 cm, © Walter Swennen/Sammlung Gaby und Wilhelm Schürmann, Herzogenrath, 2018,

ART CITIES:Vienna-Class Reunion

Gabriele and Wilhelm Schürmann started collecting art in the mid1980s. Concentrating on context oriented positions informed by Institutional Critique and political art, …