features 26.11.12 Jolien Verlaek
In the build up of RijksakademieOPEN, resident artist Rubèn Grilo discusses his work, his plans for the future and that the soup never gets to the mouth miraculously.
reviews 09.01.12 Rianne Groen
Pablo Bronstein, Sarah Jones and Michael Raedecker selected this year's Bloomberg New Contemporaries, giving an overview of what might be coming in the art world.
reviews 17.08.11 Rianne Groen
The highlights in the graduate shows of two of London’s best art schools.
reviews 19.05.11 Fleur van Muiswinkel
Last weekend, far away from the mighty Chelsea and across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, 36 international artists, curators and collectives opened their studios to the public.
Metropolis M asked nine people in the art world for their tips for a successful start to a career as an artist.
features 30.08.10 Dorothée Dupuis & Chris Sharp
This summer, two museums in Paris host a major retrospective of a new generation of French artists (born after 1975), who have now spread their wings around the globe. Two insiders have been asked to give their opinions of the current French art scene and the developments it is undergoing. Dorothée Dupuis takes a look at the artists, and Chris Sharp at the institutes.
This summer, two museums in Paris will host a major retrospective of a new generation of French artists (born after 1975), who have now spread their wings around the globe. Two insiders have been asked to give their opinions of the current French art scene and the developments it is undergoing. Dorothée Dupuis takes a look at the artists, and Chris Sharp at the institutes.
Art in the Deserted City
Detroit Has Soul
20/04/07 Mars van Grunsven
Each month, thousands of residents leave Detroit, never to return again. The city is allegedly too dangerous to live in and beyond saving.
But for the local artists, the desolate urban landscape is a precious incentive.
It’s the Fashion!
The turbulent history of tropicalism
23/02/06 Roos Gortzak
Wherever art from Latin America is shown, sooner or later the term tropicalism crops up. Metropolis M asked Roos Gortzak, curator of the exhibition Tropical Abstraction at SMBA (2005), to investigate the origin and history of this originally Brazilian concept, and to take a look at what it means to the young, upcoming generation of artists from Central and South America.