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Contemporary Venice - Architectures of Identities
Call for Artists: CONTEMPORARY VENICE – Architectures of Identities
Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, Venice: 30 April – 19 May, 2016
Deadline: April 18, 2016
It’s LIQUID Group, in collaboration with International ArtExpo and Ca’ Zanardi, is selecting all interesting photo, experimental video-art, painting, installation/sculpture and performance art works to include in the next 2016 exhibition:
CONTEMPORARY VENICE – Architectures of Identities, international art exhibition of photography, video art, installation, painting and performance art, that will be hosted inVenice, in Palazzo Ca’ Zanardifrom April 30 to May 19, 2016.
call_self_identities_buenos_aires_009_webImage courtesy of Miguel Ovalle
Call for artists: SELF IDENTITIES | Buenos Aires
International photography, painting, installation, video-art and performance art festival
Deadline: April 15, 2016
It’s LIQUID Group, in collaboration with International ArtExpo and Laura Haber Gallery, is selecting all interesting photography, painting, installation/sculpture, video art and performance art works to include in the next 2016 exhibition:
SELF IDENTITIES, International photography, painting, installation, video-art and performance art festival, that will be hosted in Buenos Aires (Argentina), at Laura Haber Galleryfrom June 04 to 30, 2016.
Helix Lamp by Michael SamorizImage courtesy of Michael Samoriz
Helix Lamp by Michael Samoriz
Michael Samoriz is one of the founders of the Umbra Design Studio. His Helix Lamp is akind lighting unit that comes in a squiggly coil design. It is an ode to the very symbol of lighting, the tungsten filament.

Louise Bourgeois: Structures of Existence at Guggenheim BilbaoImage courtesy of Guggenheim
Louise Bourgeois: Structures of Existence – The Cells at Guggenheim, Bilbao
Louise Bourgeois is one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Working with a wide range of materials and forms, she created a body of work that extended over seven decades. This exhibition, the first solely devoted to analyzing the Cells series, contains the largest number of Cells ever presented together.
Oscar de la Renta: The Retrospective at Herbst Exhibition GalleriesImage courtesy of de Young
Oscar de la Renta: The Retrospective at Herbst Exhibition Galleries
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are pleased to present the world premiere retrospective of Oscar de la Renta’s work, the first major survey celebrating the life and career of one of fashion’s most influential designers. It includes more than 130 ensembles produced over five decades.
White Walls by Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Image courtesy of Ateliers Jean Nouvel
White Walls by Ateliers Jean Nouvel
The iconic tower designed by Jean Nouvel at the center of Nicosia, next to Eleftheria Square transforms the city silhouette of Nicosia. The program includes 10-story residential apartments, a 6-story office space and a 2-story retail area. This verticality in relation to the horizontality of the medieval walls and the moat that enclose the old part of the city sets the stage for a series of inversions that are characteristic of the building.

Hookah Bar Nargile by Kman StudioImage courtesy of Tsvetomir Dzhermanov
Hookah Bar Nargile by KMAN Studio
Designers at KMAN Studio, were asked by their clients in SofiaBulgaria, to create a space for their bar that was a bold contemporary interpretation of a traditional hookah bar. To do so, they looked for references in the “one thousand and one nights” stories, and in theintricate geometric patterns adorning classical islamic architecture.
 Thomas Demand: L'image volée at Fondazione PradaImage courtesy of Fondazione Prada
Thomas Demand: L’image volée at Fondazione Prada
“L’image volée” (The stolen image) is a group show curated by artist Thomas Demandthat includes more than 90 works produced by over 60 artists from 1820 through the present day. Demand’s idea for the exhibition is to explore the way we all rely on pre-existing models, and how artists have always referred to existing imagery to make their own.
Fashion Forward: three centuries of fashion at Musée des Arts DécoratifsImage courtesy of Les Arts Décoratifs
Fashion Forward: three centuries of fashion at Musée des Arts Décoratifs
To mark the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Musée des Arts de la Mode, founded in 1986 on the initiative of Pierre Bergé and the French textile industry with the support ofJack Lang, then culture minister, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs is paying tribute to this collective adventure and great “fashion moment”. 


Greenland Central Plaza, Parcel A by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLPImage courtesy of SOM
Greenland Central Plaza Parcel A by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP
Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Central Plaza Parcel A is a complex of mixed-use buildingsthat anchor a zone of new development in Nanchang, the capital of the Chinese provinceJiangxi. The project encompasses four volumes: a pair of low-rise structures housing retail and conference functions accompanied by a pair of identical 303-meter-tall office towers.
 How to Work Better at Guggenheim (NYC)Image courtesy of Guggenheim
How to Work Better at Guggenheim (NYC)
From 1979 to 2012, Swiss artists Peter Fischli (b. 1952) and David Weiss (1946–2012) collaborated on a body of work that offers a deceptively casual meditation on how we perceive everyday life. Through a witty “misuse” of cultural genres – from low-budget Hollywood movies and picture-postcard views to the art historical notion of the readymade – they transformed the ordinary into something decisively not.