pool gallery, with support from Patek Philippe, presents : “Auferstanden aus Ruinen”, with photography works by Harald Hauswald. East German photographer Harald Hauswald’s work is exciting, insightful, and especially relevant today, as this year is the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the [Berlin] Wall. Beginning October 16, pool gallery will be showing Harald’s photography, who not only lived through, but documented his own life in the GDR. In his time, he was an Enem... Read Full Story

The aim of the competition is to encourage creativity among the next generation of designers while supporting architectural research and the implementation of contemporary architecture projects in Greece. On June 29th 2009, OLIAROS, a young property development company, issued a call for architects up to 35 years old to submit proposals for the design and construction of a model, affordable student housing complex in Kerameikos and Metaxourgeio (KM), an area in the historic centre of Athens,... Read Full Story

A major exhibition at The Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University running from 8 October 2009, will mark forty years of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Ms Understood: Women’s Liberation in 1970s Britain celebrates the 40th anniversary of the country’s first national Women’s Liberation Conference at Ruskin College, Oxford, where five hundred women came together and lay the foundation for the movement’s key demands: Demands 1-4 of the Women’s Liberat... Read Full Story

Quilted Portraits & Stitched Scenes is the first exhibition at 360SEE to feature fabric and fiber art work. While fiber art is often abstract and can feel unaccessible to many, this exhibition shows amazingly well executed fabric pieces that are approachable both in subject matter (portraits, scenes, and the depiction of representational objects) and in (painting like) presentation. The exhibition will feature (6) wall hanging portrait quilts by, practicing architect and fine art quilte... Read Full Story

As the world’s first zero carbon, zero waste city powered entirely by renewable energy sources, Masdar in the UAE is a planned city located 17 kilometres from Abu Dhabi. A government initiative, the city is being constructed over seven phases and is due to be completed by 2016. With giant umbrellas design that based on the principles of sunflowers, will provide moveable shade in the day, store heat, then close and release the heat at night in the plaza of a new eco-city in the United Arab Em... Read Full Story

This September, gallery hanahou is celebrating the release of Tina Berning’s new edition of her sold-out book 100 Girls on Cheap Paper. 100 Girls on Cheap Paper, originally released by German publishing house Printkultur, is comprised of Berning’s project of 100 illustrations of women and girls – drawings and paintings that are in turns beautiful, playful, shocking, and moving – including images of the different kinds of yellowing and lined found paper that the artist used ... Read Full Story

The Emirate of Dubai is a state-city, which has very specific traits among the Arab world, but also stands out from the rest of the world. Dubai has the role of an important synapse in regional functioning, but her ambitions also work on a more international scale. This city, which enjoys a strong strategic position in the centre of the world, is home to emblematic projects and events of a very high level. Primarily known for commerce and air transport, this cosmopolitan city aims to contin... Read Full Story

Inspired by the carpet tiles at the Morgans Hotel in New York, a project designed by Agence Andrée Putman, these ceramics, with their fine texture and play of graduated light, are infused with a feeling of comfort. Putman feels that they represent a meandering path, a textile environment, an imaginary chessboard that reflects life itself. Offered in 59.4 cm x 59.4 cm and 29.6 cm x 59.4 cm and in a linear mosaic, the Powder collection is available in five tones of grège. Juxtaposed, the tiles... Read Full Story

Starting from July 11th 2009 – August 22nd 2009, pool gallery will exhibitioning Andy Gilmore’s mesmerizing kaleidescopic images of bright swirling colors, intricately interwoven lines that morphing into sleek harmonius forms. Rochester, New York-based multi-talent artist Andy Gilmore, has a futuristic, almost alien feel to most of his graphic works. His designs transcend straight-forward aesthetic beauty, their forms inhabiting a realm of mathematical complexity, containing a ce... Read Full Story

The first major exhibition of furniture and decorative art by the protean American craftsman and designer Charles Rohlfs begins its five-venue national tour at the Milwaukee Art Museum June 6–August 23, 2009. The product of an innovative three-institution partnership, the exhibition’s scholarship is based on the Rohlfs family archives and newly discovered period sources, and brings together over forty pieces from ten museums and several private collections. The exhibition’s tour concludes at... Read Full Story