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Interview with Cooking Sections

CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones. Cooking Sections. Site specific. 2016

Cooking Sections is a collaboration between London-based Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe, who started working together in 2012 while studying at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. The duo describe themselves as ‘spatial practitioners,’ and use a combination of art, architecture and landscape design to comment on the systems that organise the world. Interview by Kirsty White

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Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), 700 Prospect St, La Jolla, CA 92037, United States

Do Ho Suh

Apartment A, Unit 2, Corridor and Staircase, 348 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USA

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) fills its Downtown location with works by artist Do Ho Suh, featuring large-scale architectural installations, sculptures, works on paper and video. Operating within a distinctly twenty-first century global mode, Suh crafts evocative works that reflect ideas of home, identity, and personal space.

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Reid Gallery, Reid Building, The Glasgow School of Art, 164 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G3 6RF

Caesura

‘Caesura’ is the inaugural public exhibition for the Reid Gallery, located in the new Glasgow School of Art (GSA) building, The Reid Building, designed by Steven Holl Architects. A ‘caesura’ (pronounced say-sura) denotes a brief, silent pause in poetry or music, during which metrical time is not counted.

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Royal Academy, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD

Sensing Spaces

Sensing Spaces, installation view

'Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined' sets out to draw our attention to the buildings and spaces we travel through, work and dwell in, in our day-to-day lives. Review by Edwina Attlee

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Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead NE8 3BA

Sara Barker and Ryder Architecture

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'The Subtle Knife' is an apt title for this collaborative site-specific sculpture, that looks back to both local and continental modernist dreams and tries to revive them. Review by Michael Mulvihill

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Gallery North, Squires Building, Sandyford Road, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST

Eleanor Wright: Thin Cities

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Eleanor Wright's works reveal the artist's attentive appreciation of space, and its formal, political and personal complexities. Review by Josh Wilson

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Institute of Contemporary Arts The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH

Bjarne Melgaard: A House to Die In

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A House to Die In is New York based Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard's first solo exhibition in the UK. The Lower and Upper Galleries feature two of his collaborative projects, which investigate the dynamics of creative and collaborative relationships. Re

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Der Kunstverein, seit 1817. Klosterwall 23 20095 Hamburg

Florian Baudrexel

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Florian Baudrexel (* 1968 in Munich, lives in Berlin) has developed two rooms with very different spatial concepts for his solo exhibition at the Kunstverein Hamburg.

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SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT, Römerberg, D-60311 Frankfurt

Bettina Pousttchi: Framework

Bettina Pousttchi (1)

The SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE will present a new work by German-Iranian artist Bettina Pousttchi specifically designed for the exterior of the SCHIRN. Similar to her well-received installation Echo (2009'10) in Berlin'where she resurrected the just demolished Pal

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Nave of the Grand Palais, Avenue Winston-Churchill 75008 Paris - France

Daniel Buren: Excentrique(s), travail in situ

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Every year, Monumenta invites an internationally renowned contemporary artist to produce a monumental work for display in the Grand Palais. Daniel Buren, one of France's greatest artists, will be rising to this challenge during the fifth Monumenta event.

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