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NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE

She has gone from being a model for the likes of Vogue and Life to being a young rebel from a good family, and then she discovered art and makes it her ‘reason d’être’ in life. Now there is an exhibition of her work at the Tate.

Tate Liverpool, February 1 - May 5 2008

SIMPLER IS BETTER

Almost 90% of the world population, i.e. around 5.8 billion people, has little or no access to food, fresh water or shelter – things which the remaining 10% of the population take for granted.

THE HENDRIKSE BROTHERS' SENSATIONAL Q DRUMS

THE SANCTUARY OF A THOUSAND WIRES

We are constantly getting caught up in a mass of wires, for mobile phones, iPods, and digital machines of various types, and of course the more of these machines we have, the more wires we have to deal with.

THE BLUE LOUNGE DESIGNERS COME UP WITH THE ANSWER TO OUR PRAYERS

BLUE SUEDE SHOES

He was born in Madrid, is the same age as me (born in 1974), is an artist, has been around the world, and his name is making itself known.

CAMPER AND JAIME HAYON

BEAUTIFUL, ROMANTIC AND RUNNERS

It is well known that stars, especially leading ladies, and if they reside permanently in Hollywood, like to try their hand at creating their own collections.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON'S NEW COLLECTION FOR REEBOK

DANIEL PFLUMM

Satire, irony, media mix and video take front stage at the Whitechapel in London. Commercials, TV speakers and international brands become the new pop heroes.

WHITECHAPEL GALLERY, LONDON, 04/02 - 05/09

SPACE ODDITY

So far, pop-ups have always been associated with fables, fantastic settings that, simply turning the pages, exploded with colours and shapes.

JIN-HUI KIM'S SPACE BOOK

KIDS IN MOTION

At last, children get to use grown-ups’ things!
Not that they haven’t always done so, but these are at least made specifically with kids in mind! So, here comes pixie 3.0: a small, cute, unbreakable and amusing digital Polaroid for small users.

PIXIE 3.0: CHILDREN ATTACK!

GOLDEN CIRCLE

A Palermo-born artist and a Trento-based gallery make a breakthrough with an encounter between jazz and contemporary painting, an unusual combination that is pure poetry.

ARTE BOCCANERA CONTEMPORANEA, TRENTO, 03/07 - 05/10

FISHING JELLY

Our lives are invaded by portability, the need for movement, flexibility and everything to do with movement.

THE INFLATABLE MOUSE

SLOW MOVEMENT

The return of Karim Rashid, the most sensual, sexy designer.

KARIM RASHID AND HIS PERSONAL NILE

KEEPING THE SUMMER ALIVE

Young, good-looking, not unemployed, luckily, Marco Morosini, the youthful, highly talented, all-Italian designer I adore and who you soon will come to love, especially for the coming Summer, in particular for the new objects he has prepared, thinking of the sea, the beach, pink, fun and thousands of other things to brighten our days.

THE SUMMER BY MARCO MOROSINI

2008 WHITNEY BIENNALE

Whitney Museum. One of the most famous museums in New York, constantly being given a new look thanks to the addition of works from its own ‘Annual and Biennial Exhibitions…’

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, 03/06 - 06/01

A HI-TECH LADYBUG

If the dog is man’s best friend (as of course it is…), then this little ladybug is set to become your iPod’s best friend, and yours too.

Vestalife presents Ladybug: your iPod's new best friend

DISTANT NEIGHBORS

Two different designers, from two even more different backgrounds, have combined their arts in a blend that is somewhere half-way between European industrialisation and the art and colour of Indian workmanship.

CHARPOY: THE MAGIC BLEND OF DOSHI AND LEVIEN

THE NEW GODDESS

Vera Wang is quite rightly considered one of the divinities of American fashion, or rather of New York fashion, to be precise. And as we all know, when you get this far… you set fashions, you don’t follow them!

VERA WANG, THE QUEEN OF STYLE

SNOW'S GREATEST HITS

Usually at about this time of the year, we begin to wonder: ‘When is winter going to end?”, and we cross our fingers behind our back hoping that a heavenly voice from above will say: ‘Not long now’.

THE 'SPOILT' SKI COLLECTION

A TIDE IS RISING

There is a large American company, Rising Tide Fair Trade, which slowly and without fuss, but with real, just motivations, is making a place for itself in the niche market of fair trade.

THE NEW FRONTIERS OF A TRADE

THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME... NOT THE ZEPPELIN

THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME… NOT THE ZEPPELIN
The name Bowers & Wilkins doesn’t need much by way of introduction. For decades it has been synonymous with the most advanced sound reproduction.

ZEPPELIN BY B&W, THE FINAL FRONTIER FOR THE NEW IPOD SPEAKER

EDWARD HOPPER (1882 – 1967)

He work of Edward Hopper is celebrated at the Art Institute of Chicago, with an exhibition dedicated entirely to him, and his images featuring the memories, faces and colors of an America that no longer exists.

THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, 02/16 - 05/10

ONE – INFINITE

There is a strange tendency today – perhaps we are getting closer and closer to the far east, in terms of style and exigencies, or perhaps out of need – but the fact is, the spaces we live and work in are getting smaller.

KEER: A THOUSAND NEW POSSIBILITIES BY REINER DE JONG

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL, SMALL AND BEAUTIFUL

XM-I is a next generation company whose sole priority is to constantly push the limits of multimedia technology. To anticipate trends, and create new ones, to move ever faster by accepting and winning the challenges of this fast-changing, hi-tech millennium: this is XM-I’s sole mission.

X-MINI, OR THE POCKET-SIZE REVOLUTION

MITZI PEDERSON

Mitzi Pedersen was born in Florida, but lives in San Francisco. She is only thirty, yet her work has already gained her entry to one of the most important museums in California: the Hammer UCLA.

HAMMER MUSEUM AT UCLA, LOS ANGELES, 2/29 - 05/25

THROW THE SPOON FROM THE TRAIN

Generally-speaking, finding a teaspoon is not one our most pressing problems, especially if we are no longer students sharing an apartment with four or five other people (and maybe a few cats).

'CERAMIC FOR MIX': AND THE TEA MAKES ITSELF!

PIRATES ON THE CATWALK

Let’s admit it: Johnny Deep as Jack Sparrow is simply gorgeous, and the beautiful Kiera Knightly is even more so, and we are not all lucky enough to look so good dressed up as pirates.

JEAN PAUL GAULTIER AND HIS EXTRAVAGANT HEADGEAR

GIVE SOUL TO YOUR DATA

Heart Beat is the name of the new USB memory key that no woman will want to be without. Why? Because it is the result of the costly collaboration between Philips and Swaroski, and is not simply a data storage device…

THE USB MEMORY KEY BY PHILIPS AND SWAROSKI

PURE NATURE

For years, industrial design was the style that dominated the world of design, that made it accessible and available to the masses, and for years industrial design was also seen as the politically correct component of a design tendency that too often was exclusive and only for the elite.

THE NEW LAMP BY TOMER SAPIR

JUAN MUÑOZ

Muñoz was a Spanish artist (1953 – 2001) who came to international prominence in the mid 1980s. A retrospective of his work is now on show at the Tate, in London, with an exhibition-event.

TATE MODERN, LONDON, JANUARY 24 - APRIL 27 2008

STAR OF THE SHOCK

Just for a moment, I swear, it gave me the shudders.
I watched the promotional video for the new Olympus µ 1030SW digital camera, and the first few seconds froze the blood in my veins.

THE NEW OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

SINGING IN THE RAIN

One swallow doesn’t make a summer… But when it starts raining non-stop, you can be sure that summer is on the way. This year, though, we won’t be too depressed by the rain.

INTRODUCING BURBERRY'S NEW SUPER WELLINGTON

UNMONUMENTAL

Only two months after being opened to the public, the New Museum in New York is already stealing the limelight from other more high-profile Manhattan galleries.
And this is only the start …

NEW MUSEUM, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 1 2007 - MARCH 30 2008

FROM CHINA WITH LOVE

The latest Alessi collection, the result of a collaboration between Stefano Giovannoni, Rumiko Takeda and the National Palace Museum in Taiwan, features a collection of Asian-inspired kitchen utensils.

THE LASTEST ALESSI COLLECTION HAS AN ORIENTAL FEEL

THE VIOLET COLOUR

Another article about mobile phones, because after all, our phone is the object we keep closest to us day and night!

NOKIA

SILVER AND GOLD

Dolce and Gabbana love to astound, and with every new creation they bring us something new, precious, magical and… only for a select few.

DOLCE&GABBANA

VEUVE ROSEE’

He arrived on the scene some time ago, bringing a touch of color and softness to the world of design, and he is now one of the top ten designers in the world. With good reason!

KARIM RASHID

AES+F

After its success in the Russian pavilion at the 52nd Biennale in Venice, there is great anticipation for the first solo exhibition of the AES+F group in an Italian museum - MACRO FUTURE.

MACRO FUTURE, ROME, FEBRUARY 15 - APRIL 27 2008

OTHER FLOWERS AND OTHER QUESTIONS

An unusual title for the first Italian retrospective to explore the work of Peter Fischli and David Weiss, produced by the Fondazione Trussardi with the Tate Modern in London and the Kunsthaus in Zurich.

PALAZZO LITTA, MILAN, 30 JANUARY - 16 MARCH 2008

LET THE SHOES SHINE IN

At last, the most beautiful, most famous vegan in the world has found peace… Having searched high and low in shop after shop, Natalie Portman has finally found the shoes she was looking for.

TECASAN

THAT'S TECH!

The final frontier for e-paper comes from chocolate agency, an agency that has always been at the cutting edge of design and technology.

E-PAPER SLAP

GLASS REFLECTIONS, WHITE TENSION

More of an object than an architectural creation, this ‘piece’ needs to be looked at and wandered around, because before going inside, you need to take a really good look at it from the outside, without missing anything.

LEONARDO GLASS CUBE

V MODA EARPHONES

In 2005, V Moda produced a new family of headphones designed to take the place of Apple’s normal, white devices, which were not anonymous, perhaps (white, after all, has now become the unmistakable colour of Steve Jobs), but normal.

EARPHONES

BODYGUARD 3

Fresh from its public debut, Design Miami 2007 now presents Bodyguard 3: the latest creation by the Israeli designer Ron Arad.

RON ARAD

TRUE NORTH

The frozen north comes to Berlin, with the dominant white of far-off, suggestive landscapes captured by the lenses of seven international artists.

GUGGEHNHEIM, BERLIN, 2 FEBRUARY - 13 APRIL 2008

SPRING COURT

In 1936, Georges Grimmeisen invented a pair of tennis shoes that would revolutionise the world of tennis for ever: Spring Court.

2008 COLLECTION

USB FLASH DRIVE WRIST BAND

Generally speaking, the smaller objects are, the more we love them, especially if they have something to do with technology: we are always on the move, and obviously we can’t carry a memory stick as big as a brick around with us.

BRANDO

BLUETOOTH™ MBW-150

From Sony Ericsson comes a wrist-watch that can do practically everything: telephone, SMS, BluetoothTM and mp3-player. It’s small, light, and naturally attractive.

SONY ERICSSON

REBAGS

Original shopping bags designed by 15 creative groups in Britain, on the theme of ‘environmental sustainability’ and being ‘eco-friendly’.

BLANCA & 15 DESIGNER GROUPS

OLAFUR ELIASSON: TAKE YOUR TIME

‘Observe yourself while you look at art, as if looking at an experiment. Your experience is unique. Take your time. Step outside the rules. Live the art.’

MoMA SF 08/09/2007 - 24/02/2008

BOOK BAGS

How many times have you had to give someone a gift, only to find yourself at a complete loss as to what to give them? And how many times have you ended up saying: ‘I know, a book! Books are always welcome, and nobody would say no to a book’.
Of course, what a great idea!

REBOUND DESIGN

GRESSO

From Gresso, advanced technology and exclusive design are applied to a mobile phone. The latest model, the Gresso Avantgarde, goes beyond the boundaries of excellence!

GRESSO MOBILE PHONE

GREGORY CREWDSON'S AMERICA

Gregory Crewdson’s America finally reaches Rome, having already visited several other European cities. Taking his inspiration from the writings of Freud, he depicts provincial America, with all its hang-ups, myths and illusions.

ROME, PALAZZO DELLE ESPOSIZIONI, DEC. 19 2007 - MAR. 2 2008

SITSCAPE

What I am about to show you wasn’t invented yesterday. It was actually invented some time ago, but little has been said about it, and that really is a shame, because this latest creation by ‘Hackenbroich Architekten’ is designed specifically to make us feel better, in any position we please!

SEATING ZONE

COLOURFUL SOFT CASE

Since the invention of laptops, micro technology and micro design have made incredible advances, at a speed that is nothing short of staggering.

PIJAMA

ENERGI TO GO

Every time I leave home, I forget to bring my phone charger, or else I remember to take it, but then I forget in my hotel room.

LESS IS MORE

MY PRIVATE SKY

A set of plates that show the night sky at the exact date and place of birth of the buyer. The ultimate in personalization.

CLEMENS WEISSHAAR AND REED KRAM

ILLUMINATIONS

Five videos from five promising young contemporary artists. An intense journey across several latitudes, articulated through places, objects and gestures that express faith.

TATE MODERN, LONDON, 14 DECEMBER 2007 - 24 FEBRUARY 2008

TATE MODERN: A NEW 'FRACTURE' IN ART

A monumental concrete work by the Colombian artist Doris Salcedo, which invades and pervades the architectural structure inside the Turbine Hall.

TATE MODERN LONDON, OCT. 9 2007 - APR. 6 2008

MODAL WATER SPEAKER

Audio systems with something special: the medium through which the sound is propagated is not air, but water! Innovative design wedded to cutting-edge technology.

KUNIHIRO TSUJI

GREENSPOT

For all those who dream of going ‘barefoot in the park’, a fun paving tile through which the grass grows, which can be used on any type of pavement.

ANKE BERNOTAT, SEBASTIAN KRAUS & SANDRA TURINA

SHEER

Often, design is merely a question of aesthetics, but sometimes it embraces advanced technology, and when it reaches its objective, it is because it manages to accommodate aesthetic demands, practicality and technology, to become almost a work of art.

DRAGDESIGN STUDIO

RICHARD PRINCE: SPIRITUAL AMERICA

A look back at the last 30 years in the career of the ‘rebel’ artist of the Seventies, Richard Prince. An exhibition featuring irony and a subtle provocation of popular culture in the United States.

GUGGENHEIM NY, SEPT. 28 2007 - JAN. 9 2008

DAVID LACHAPELLE

From Andy Warhol to Michelangelo, from Interview to the Sistine Chapel - for LaChapelle, the line between one and the other is all too thin, as reflected in his 350 works on display in Milan.

MILAN, PALAZZO REALE, SEPT. 25 2007 - JAN. 6 2008

SEARCH TABLE

Google has become…a table. Designed by Ezri Tarazi, it is formed by the first 100 images that appear on the search engine for the word ‘table’.

EZRI TARAZI

SPLINTER

At first sight it looks like a simple teak bench, but in fact you can split it down the middle! Just the thing for those who think that love can’t last forever.

MATTHEW KROKER

At 96 years old, Louise Bourgeois continues to rejuvenate her artistic language, as if time were no obstacle to her. And yet, in her long life, on several occasions she has been a part of history, especially the history of art, on a journey that has taken her through surrealism, abstract expressionism, and minimalism, until she found a language and style all her own. The Centre Pompidou is currently dedicating an exhibition to her work, in collaboration with the Tate Modern in London, and featuring works from 1940 to 2007, divided by chronology and theme.

www.centrepompidou.fr

LOUISE BOURGEOIS

CENTRE GEORGE POMPIDOU, PARIS,
5 MARCH – 2 JUNE 2008

A tormented, restless artist, but also considered the last of the great 20th century masters.
In his attempts to contrast abstractionism, he rigorously depicted the anxieties of modern man, and that subtle, rather dark existential feeling. His strong, dramatic images are very popular with the general public, so much so that his works have not been exhibited in Italy since 1993. They are now once again on show in an exhibition at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, with a selection of works coming from some of the most important collections in the world.

www.comune.milano.it

FRANCIS BACON

PALAZZO REALE, MILAN,
MARCH 5 – JUNE 29 2008

A travelling show, which after appearing at the Los Angeles MOCA, has now reached the PS1 in New York. It is the first comprehensive artistic retrospective of the feminist revolution, focusing on the period between 1965 and 1980. How? With works by 120 artists, all women naturally, who at the time operated either alone or in groups, comprising a broad range of media – painting, sculpture, video and performance-art – based on a single theme: feminist politics. So far, everything’s clear enough. But one question still remains… why WACK? …To contrast and contest the stereotypical notion of being ‘weak’, a term too often associated with and used to describe women…

www.ps1.org

WACK ! ART AND THE FEMINIST REVOLUTION

PS1, NEW YORK,
FEBRUARY 17 – MAY 12 2008

Peter Doig made a name for himself in the 1990s, and was especially notable for a particular feature of his painting: the fact that he was one of the very few figurative artists still around. Figurative, definitely, but also one of a kind. In 2002, all trace of him seemed to have been lost, but only because he moved to Trinidad: a creative escape. Now he has returned, and is appearing at the Tate in London with a series of works, many of which have never been shown before. The result is a fascinating exhibition, made even more interesting by the fact that his approach to figurative art seems to have changed again, so that there is now talk of him being a contemporary Turner…

www.tate.org.uk

PETER DOIG

TATE BRITAIN, LONDON,
5 FEBRUARY – 27 APRIL 2008

For the entire twentieth century, colours were assigned contradictory and paradoxical values: sometimes they were considered representative of spiritual truths or scientific validity. Colour, and certain colours in particular, created a sort of excitement, especially when applied to mass-produced, standardised commercial products.
Color Chart is the first exhibition to be dedicated entirely to the key role played by colour in the century of transformations, and features the work of artists ranging from Ellsworth Kelly and Gerhard Richter to Sherrie Levine and Damien Hirst.

www.moma.org

COLOR CHART: REINVENTING COLOR, 1950 TO TODAY

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
2 MARCH – 12 MAY 2008

Chanel has decided to make its legendary bag the focus of an event on an International scale: MOBILE ART, a travelling exhibition that will be presented in Asia, the United States and Europe. But the innovative thing about this exhibition compared to other previous travelling shows, is that not only do the contents of the exhibition move, but so does the actual container itself! Architect Zaha Hadid was asked to design a container/pavilion that would be as enigmatic as its contents, one that could be assembled, disassembled and transported. Architecture, art and fashion are on the move, thanks to Chanel.

www.chanel-mobileart.com

MOBILE ART

CHANEL CONTEMPORARY ART CONTAINER
BY ZAHA HADID

The new play-exhibition at the Milan Children’s Museum features games and experiments designed for very young children, based on the works of Bruno Munari dedicated to them.
It is the first time that attention has been turned so directly towards such a specific, and in its own way, such a demanding audience.
The topics covered are those closet to the sensitivities, curiosity and demands of very young children. Touch, handle, compose, decompose, experiment are the various stages in a process of learning and training on direct experience and play.

www.triennale.it

VIETATO NON TOCCARE

TRIENNALE MILAN
29 JANUARY - 30 MARCH 08

What on earth would art know about ecology? Quite a lot, it would seem, and it has a lot to say about it. Evidence can be found in the works selected for the exhibition Greenwashing, which at the end of February brings to a close an entire year dedicated to the environment at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin. The artists involved don’t provide us with solutions, but rather their own individual views on the ‘environment question’. Their works stimulate discussion, analyze, criticize, and pose new questions. From the USA to China, by way of Europe, a single voice can be heard: ‘greenwashing’! A choral message for an increasingly ‘eco’ world.

www.fondsrr.org

GREENWASHING

FONDAZIONE SANDRETTO RE REBAUDENGO TURIN
28 FEBRUARY – 11 MAY 2008

The Bologna Museum of Modern Art (MAMbo) is proud to present the very first Italian exhibition of American artists Guyton/Walker. Wade Guyton and Kelley Walker make a rather odd couple. Both are still in their thirties, and each has their very own strong, precise language and style, but these individual artistic sensitivities merge in a single entity to create a ‘third artist’: Guyton/Walker, reinterpreting and recycling images drawn from the media.
References from the 1980s, put together using a blend of computerised graphics, silkscreen and digital printing. So what have they come up with for MAMbo? A maxi format installation.

www.mambo-bologna.org

GUYTON – WALKER

MAMBO BOLOGNA
25 JANUARY – 30 MARCH 2008

Two major Brazilian museums have already hosted part of the itinerant show dedicated to the work of Cesare Berlinghieri, but the exhibition by Aguinaldo Coelho and Celso Fioravante has moved on, and a few days ago began its third and last stage at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio. There are 52 works on display, covering 40 years in the career of Cesare Berlingeri, and revealing several distinctive elements such as the use of monochrome, the relationship between painting and sculpture, memory, eroticism, and sacredness.

www.mamrio.com.br

CESARE BERLINGERI

MAM MUSEU DE ARTE MODERNA RIO DE JANEIRO
31 JANUARY - 20 MARCH

If it is true that Pop Art will never age, then the same is true of its heroes. In Paris it is now the turn of Derek Boshier, a worthy contemporary of David Hockney and John Allen at the London College of Fine Art in the Sixties. After his historic collaborations with David Bowie and The Clash, his attention shifted mainly to Los Angeles, the city where for some time he has lived and worked, observing and gathering its multi-faceted nature. The Galerie du Centre in Paris, a not-to-be-missed gallery, is mounting an exhibition of his most recent works, the latest creations by a boyish seventy-year old who never fails to amaze.

www.galerie-du-centre.net
www.derekboshier.com

DEREK BOSHIER

Galerie du Centre, Paris, January 12 – February 23 2008

This Taiwan born artist today lives and works in Brooklyn. She holds a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University. She has just turned thirty, and her work has already been the subject of an exhibition at Foxy Production in New York. Now she makes her ‘west coast’ debut, with a solo exhibition at Cherry and Martin in Los Angeles, and her artistic adventure, after all, has just started… Her materials? You name it, she uses it: paper, lacquer, cement, mirrors, practically anything that allows her to investigate and reflect everyday reality, the big and small stories of objects we use every day, in a site-specific installation for Cherry and Martin.

www.cherryandmartin.com

YUH-SHIOH WONG

Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, January 12 –February 16 2008

On show at the Ca’ di Fra gallery in Milan, this is the new series of works by José Molina, the ‘wandering Madrilenian’ who has been in Italy for some time now. His subtle yet profound graphic skills bring to life images of memory, fear, and uneasiness, suspended somewhere between caricature and introspection, in a reality that is surreal, yet terribly genuine.
The pencil and pastel works of José Molina reawaken our most intimate secrets, but a sense of irony alters the tone and attenuates the impact.
Today’s ‘Predatores’ are hidden everywhere, but especially within us. José succeeds in giving them a face… and being able to look them in the face can help to make the difference...!

www.josemolina.com

JOSÉ MOLINA: ‘PREDATORES’

Galleria Ca’ di Fra – Milan – December 13 2007 – January 26 2008

How important is the word in art? The MART in Rovereto has decided to investigate this theme, and has set a team of highly-respected curators the difficult task of answering this question. The team, consisting of Gabriella Belli, Achille Bonito Oliva, Andreas Hepkemeyer, Nicoletta Boschiero, Paola Pettenella, Melania Gazzotti, Daniela Ferrari, Julia Trolp and Giorgio Zanchetti, have sought the solution in the history of art, examining a variety of artistic poetics ranging from the avant-garde artists of the twentieth century to the most recent experiments in art. The result is eight hundred works on show, from Martinetti to…Tracy Emin!

www.mart.trento.it

THE WORD IN ART

MART – Rovereto – November 10 2007 – April 04 2008

A new solo presentation of the work of Roman Signer at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, this exhibition is every bit as original and unorthodox as the rest of Signer’s work, which since 1987, with Documenta 8 in Kassel, and through to his various appearances at the Venice ‘Biennale’, has never failed to amaze. Mixed-media, films, sculptures and installations are the features of this latest ‘incursion’ into the art scene. What drives his work? Once again, the answer is time, the way in which it is perceived, and the impression it leaves behind. What are the tools of his trade? The absurd, various experiments with the concept of the absurd using objects that are completely useless, but remind us of the importance of continuing to be amazed.

www.fruitmarket.co.uk

ROMAN SIGNER

The Fruitmarket Gallery –Edinburgh – November 02 2007 – January 27 2008

The Special Exhibitions Gallery on the third floor of New York’s MoMa is currently running an unusual and rather particular exhibition, a journey through the etchings of one of the most introspective and original of modern figurative artists: Lucian Freud.
The exhibition consists of a selection of works, brought together in a cross-media installation, ranging from the 1940s to the early 1980s, in a swirl of psychological tension and impeccable technique. A hidden side of Lucian Freud, now revealed in all its subtle and profound introspection. Is this a show only for connoisseurs? Absolutely not. It is simply another chance to get to know one of the foremost figures of modern art.

www.moma.org

LUCIAN FREUD

Moma NY – December 16 2007 – March 10 2008

Byblos Art Gallery opens the 2008 exhibition season with the collective work OFF RECORD, young and digital, featuring the innovative digital works of 4 talented young artists from the Czech Republic. OFF RECORD young and digital leads the spectator on a new artistic journey marked by technological-digital expression, and a highly-original discovery of the modern and contemporary human condition.

www.byblosartgallery.it

OFF RECORD, young and digital

Byblos Art Gallery - Verona
February 16 - April 12 2008

This retrospective is dedicated to Richard Rogers, one of the creators of the ‘Beaubourg machine’, the last event held to commemorate the center’s thirtieth anniversary.
A collaboration between Olivier Cinqualbre and Rogers himself, the exhibition emphasises the importance of open, themed spaces, and takes the visitor on a journey based on key words associated with the architect’s output.

RICHARDS ROGERS + ARCHITECTS

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
November 21 2007 - March 3 2008