Résumé : Sommaire : Introduction: Changing exhibitions -- Beyond the white cube -- Sculpture projects Münster -- Places with a past: New site-specific art in Charleston -- inSITE -- Sonsbeek 93 -- Culture in action -- Prospect.1 New Orleans -- Artists as curators as artists -- Freeze -- The Brooklyn Museum collection: The play of the unmentionable -- Mining the museum: An installation by Fred Wilson -- The museum as muse: Artists reflect -- Mike Kelley: The uncanny -- Across the fields and beyond the disciplines -- High & Low: Modern art and popular culture -- Cities on the move: Contemporary Asian art on the turn of the 21st century -- Laboratorium -- What if: Art on the verge of architecture and design -- Century city: Art and culture in the modern metropolis -- New lands -- Magiciens de la Terre -- Cocido y Crudo -- 2nd Johannesburg Biennial: Trade routes - History and geography -- The short century: Independence and liberation movements in Africa, 1945-1994 -- After the Wall: Art and culture in Post-communist Europe -- Biennial years -- Manifesta 1-9: European Biennial of Contemporary Art -- documenta X -- 24th São Paulo Biennial -- documenta 11 -- 7th Lyon Biennial for Contemporary Art (It happened tomorrow) -- 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art: Of mice and men -- 9th International Istanbul Biennial: Istanbul -- dOCUMENTA (13).New forms -- This is the show and the show is many things -- do it -- NowHere -- 50th Venice Biennale: Dreams and conflicts - The dictatorship of the viewer -- 28th São Paulo Biennial : In living contact -- An unruly history of the readymade -- Others everywhere -- The 1993 Whitney Biennial -- In a different light -- 31st Panorama of Brazilian art: Mamõyguara Opá Mamõ Pupé -- 11th International Istanbul Biennial: What keeps mankind alive? -- Phantom sightings: Art after the Chicano movement -- Tomorrow's talents today -- No Man's time -- Helter skelter: L.A. art in the 1990s - Traffic -- Sensation: Young British artists from the Saatchi Collection -- Freestyle -- History -- Inside the visible: An elliptical traverse of 20th century art in, of, and from the feminine -- Reconsidering the object of art: 1965-1975 -- Out of actions: Between performance and the object, 1949-1979 -- Global conceptualism: Points of origin, 1950s-1980s -- WACK! Art and the feminist revolution -- Talking about exhibitions: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Massimiliano Gioni, Mary Jane Jacob, Maria Lind, Jessica Morgan, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Adriano Pedrosa in conversation with Jens Hoffmann.

Résumé : A massive survey of the famed glass firm's unparalleled lighting designs.The Italian glass firm Venini, founded in 1921, is famed for its virtuoso uses of Murano glass. Created with a soda-lime "metal" sourced from the beaches of Venice, Murano is unparalleled in quality. Venini elevates this material to exquisite heights, shaping it into beautiful art objects emblazoned with engravings, enamel paint details and intricate folds.This volume is the latest edition from Skira's glass series Le Stanze del Vetro and focuses on the firm's output of lighting design--an area in which Venini has particularly distinguished itself--as produced between 1921 and 1985.Presenting a selection of over 500 cards and 400 illustrations (most previously unseen) encompassing both catalog and preparatory drawings, the volume documents Venini's activity throughout the 20th century, highlighting projects of historical importance, including collaborations with Angiolo Mazzoni in the 1930s, the Palazzo Grassi in Venice (1951) and the Fulda theater in Germany (1978).