Château La Coste is a vineyard where art, architecture and land have come together. Architect Jean Nouvel was commissioned to design a technologically advanced wine making chai. The Art Centre, designed by Tadao Ando. In La Coste winery and vineyard  you can walk  through 180 hectares of wooded hilltops, valleys and vines discover works Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Andy Goldsworthy, Carsten Holler, Paul Matisse, Jean Prouve, Richard Serra among many others.

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art begins the exhibition year 2012 with a presentation of the most pace-setting photographer today, Andreas Gursky. Many of Gursky’s pictures come close to the painterly, others appear highly photographic. With 45 of the artist’s mega-photographs and about 26 smaller photographs, Louisiana’s exhibition spans all of Gursky’s output right up to the very latest photographs.  The exhibition thus gives the viewer the opportunity to follow the transformations and transformative power of the pictures over more than two decades.

Mathematics: A Beautiful Elsewhere with the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain invites the public to participate in a total and original creative experience conceived in association with the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) and presented under the patronage of UNESCO. The exhibition is an unveiling of the mental landscapes, the infinite horizons and the invisible mysteries of a way of thinking that is fueled by dreams, intuition and creativity.

The first museum exhibition in the United States of the work of Sanja Iveković covers four decades of the artist’s remarkable career. A feminist, activist, and video pioneer, Iveković came of age in the post-1968 period, when artists broke free from mainstream institutional settings, laying the ground for a form of praxis antipodal to official art. Part of the generation known as the Nova Umjetnička Praksa (New Art Practice), Iveković produced works of cross-cultural resonance that range from conceptual photomontages to video and performance.

The twelfth commission in The Unilever Series is by the celebrated British filmmaker Tacita Dean. It is an 11-minute silent 35mm film projected onto a gigantic white monolith standing 13 metres tall at the end of a darkened Turbine Hall. It is the first work in The Unilever Series devoted to the moving image, and celebrates the masterful techniques of analogue film-making as opposed to digital.

Designed by Todd Schliemann of Ennead Architects NHMU is in a stunning new building situated in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, overlooking Salt Lake City. Inspired by the region’s natural landscape of rock, soil, minerals and vegetation, the Rio Tinto Center rests on a series of terraces that step up the hill and lie along the contours of the site with minimal disruption to the adjacent natural landscape. For over four decades, the Natural History Museum of Utah has connected Utah residents and tourists alike with the natural wonders and native cultures that define Utah. 

Courtesy of YSP

 YSP presents an extraordinary body of new and recent work by renowned Spanish artist Jaume Plensa. Encouraging tactile and sensory exploration, this vibrant exhibition includes a 50-metre curtain of poetry made of suspended steel letters, large illuminated sculptures in the landscape, and engraved gongs that visitors can strike to fill the gallery with sound.

Courtesy of YSP

Fogo Island Arts Corporation is a contemporary arts experiment on Fogo Island and Change Islands.  The Arts Corp takes a leading role in regenerating the islands by delivering an integrated strategy incorporating the arts, geo tourism and social enterprise.  The Arts Corp sees arts and creativity as powerful means of stimulating and enhancing a resilient social ecosystem, while working as an integral partner of other approaches.  

Photography Ali Bekman

Haaz means pleasure with added value. It is a source for great refinement and enjoyment offering a curational collection chosen by the owners Murat Patavi and Ozlem Avcioglu. The collection celebrates the best, brightest and the most beautiful in the world of design and art world.

In their new two story lofty place, designed by Gokhan Avcioglu, you can find the latest design pieces from Moroso, BD Barcelona, Tom Dixon, Droog Design among many others as well as art pieces from well known and young artists like Damien Hirst, Boo Saville, Zhu Fadong, Shawn Yu and Travelmodus hand picked collection from all over the world..  

Photography Ali Bekman

Photography Ali Bekman

Photography Ali Bekman

Photography Ali Bekman

Photography Ali Bekman

Photography Ali Bekman

Located in the heart of Manhattan’s Lower East Side, 257 Bowery is Sperone Westwater’s newest gallery location. Prompted by the need for larger and more structurally flexible space, the Foster + Partners design doubles the gallery’s exhibition area and provides a variety of rooms for the gallery’s ambitious and diverse program. The new eight-storey building, designed by Foster + Partners, features a 12 x 20-foot moving room, 13 feet high, which can create either a temporal transition between the gallery’s exhibition floors or an extension to a particular floor’s program.
The design incorporates a double height, 27-foot-tall, exhibition space at street level, with a sky-lit gallery, a mezzanine floor, a sculpture terrace overlooking a park, and private viewing galleries on floors 4 and 5.

After a renovation the Groninger Museum reopened its doors to the public. The entire building has regained its original lustre and and its colours have been fully restored. Several rooms have been thoroughly renovated by the top designers Maarten Baas, Studio Job and Jaime Hayon. They designed, respectively, the Mendini Restaurant, the Job Lounge and the Info Center, the ultramodern digital visitors’ information centre.
The Groninger Museum can hold its own with other top museums in the Netherlands and Western Europe. As a starting point for their spectacular new design of the reception hall Job Lounge, Studio Job took the typical 19th-century private gentlemen’s clubs, frequented by their characteristic members, all smoking and wearing top hats. The Info Center, the new visitors’ information centre, was designed by the young Spanish artist Jaime Hayon, whose work has featured worldwide in the major art and design publications. The Mendini Restaurant on the museum’s premises was refurnished by Maarten Baas, who derived his inspiration from his Clay collection. The furniture objects in this collection have a metal frame and are made of industrial clay. Baas designed a series of new Clay models especially for the Mendini Restaurant. They are entirely handmade.

MONA is the dream of professional gambler, entrepreneur and philanthropist David Walsh, and is designed by Walsh and architect Nonda Katsalidis to shock and offend, challenge, inform, entertain and provoke. MONA sits on a 3.5 hectare  peninsular curving into the Derwent River in Tasmania.  What was previously a small collection of antiquities has been transformed into a three-level, underground, multimedia museum of installations, paintings, light shows, mummies and African art, all of which will be free to the public. The exterior is concrete and Corten steel panels with roof gardens, a tennis court and walkways. The interior is no neutral “white cube” and is designed to encourage visitors to lose themselves in the slow reveal of the galleries.

The Museo del Novecento (Museum of the Twentieth Century), located in the Palazzo dell’Arengario, is a public venue dedicated to the exhibition the display of Milan’s collection of Twentieth-Century Art.
The collection of the Museo del Novecento bears witness to the history of Italian art from the Avantgarde at the beginning of XXth Century to nowadays..A 4,000 sq.m. exhibition area dedicated to modern art, where it will be possible to marvel at a special itinerary made up of 400 works of art from the end of 19th century to ‘80s of 20th century

After New York, Los Angeles and London, Gagosian opened its new gallery, near the Champs Elysees. The Paris gallery, designed by French architect Jean-François Bodin and London studio Caruso St John. Two of the four  floors are dedicated to public exhibitions.

The Storm King Art Center is  one of the world’s leading sculpture parks is located an hour north of New York City, in  Hudson Valley. Storm King’s 500-acre landscape provides the setting for a collection of more than 100  sculptures, created by artists like Alexander Calder, Andy Goldsworthy, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, Nam June Paik, Richard Serra, Mark di Suvero, and Maya Lin. These span the years
from post-World War II to the present and include specially commissioned site-specific works, all set against the backdrop of Storm King and Schunnemunk Mountains.

In order to apprecaite The Collection one must know Peggy’s life mission.  She was the chief patron of the world’s foremost collections of modern art of 20th century. Peggy used to say that it was her duty to protect the art of her own time, and she dedicated half of her life to this mission, as well as to the creation of the museum that still carries her name.

Palazzo Venier dei Leoni was designed in the 1750s by architect Lorenzo Boschetti. From 1910 to c. 1924 the house was owned by  Marchesa Luisa Casati, hostess to the Ballets Russes, and the subject of numerous portraits by artists as various as Boldini, Troubetzkoy, Man Ray and Augustus John. In 1949, Peggy Guggenheim purchased Palazzo Venier from the heirs of Viscountes Castlerosse and made it her home for the following thirty years. Early in 1951, Peggy Guggenheim opened her home and collection to the public and continued to do so every year until her death in 1979.
In 1950 Peggy organized the first exhibition of Jackson Pollock in Italy, in the Ala Napoleonica of the Museo Correr in Venice. Her collection was in the meantime exhibited in Florence and Milan, and later in Amsterdam, Brussels, and Zurich. From 1951 Peggy opened her house and her collection to the public annually in the summer months. During her 30-year Venetian life, Peggy Guggenheim continued to collect works of art and to support artists, such as Edmondo Bacci and Tancredi Parmeggiani. In 1962 Peggy Guggenheim was nominated Honorary Citizen of Venice. 

Peggy died aged 81 on 23 December 1979. Her ashes are placed in a corner of the garden of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, next to the place where she customarily buried her beloved dogs. Since this time, the Guggenheim Foundation has converted and expanded Peggy Guggenheim’s private house into one of the finest small museums of modern art in the world.

by Andrea Sarti

by Andrea Sarti

by Ozlem Avcioglu

by Andrea Sarti

MAXXI is the first National Museum of XXI Century Arts  devoted to the contemporary creativity. The Museum designed by Zaha Hadid Architects.The MAXXI design goes beyond the concept of the building-museum. The complexity of the volumes, the curving walls, the variations and intersections of the levels determine a very rich spatial and functional configuration that visitors may pass through via ever different and unexpected routes. Multiple environments coexist in a sequence of galleries illuminated with natural light filtered via a special roof system.

Michael Stevenson is the most intriguing gallery in Cape Town. Gallery has been dealing in South African art since 1990 and is located  in Woodstock.

They has hosted a series of widely acclaimed solo and group exhibitions. A stable of leading contemporary South African artists has also been assembled, and the gallery has broadened its ambit to include work by artists from elsewhere in Africa.

Michael Stevenson is an art historian who has published widely in the field of South African art history. He works closely with collectors and public galleries, and has curated many private and corporate collections.

Do not visit only Michael Stevenson gallery but also explore to the back rooms for more artist work.

In the heart of Paris’s museum land,  the Musée du quai Branly has an exceptional location on the banks of the River Seine, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. The arts of Africa, Oceania, Asia, and the Americas now form part of the historical and artistic grand tour of the capital. The Musée du quai Branly is an innovative cultural institution – museum, educational and research center, and public living space all in one. Built on one of the last available sites in the heart of Paris, the architectural design of this original project is the work of Jean Nouvel.

If the weather is good, do not miss cafe Branly, located in the museums beautiful garden, with a view of the Moai head.

Designed by architect Frank Gehry, Walt Disney Concert Hall, new home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is designed to be one of the most acoustically sophisticated concert halls in the world, providing both visual and aural intimacy for an unparalleled musical experience.

Through the vision and generosity of Lillian Disney, the Disney family, and many other individual and corporate donors, the city will enjoy one of the finest concert halls in the world, as well as an internationally recognized architectural landmark. From the stainless steel curves of its striking exterior to the state-of-the-art acoustics of the hardwood-paneled main auditorium, the 3.6-acre complex embodies the unique energy and creative spirit of the city of Los Angeles and its orchestra.