features  10.06.13  Defne Ayas

Witte de With Director Defne Ayas was recently in Istanbul in the middle of all protests. A report.

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reviews  09.06.13  Nav Haq

One of the recent additions to the evolving artistic landscape in Brussels is the artist-run non-profit initiative The Artists Club Coffre-Fort, set up towards the end of last year by three individuals Thibaut Espiau, Ištvan Išt Huzjan and Gregoire Motte, who have been running this studio and exhibition space in the vault of a former jeweller that they have turned into a white cube.

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reviews  22.05.13  Saskia van Stein & Philippine Hoegen

Tito's bunker, codename 'istanbul', is hosting the second Biennial of Sarajevo, which is curated by Branko Franceschi and Basak Senova.

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features  22.05.13  Mick Wilson

‘Bologna’ gets blamed for all sorts of things, especially the growth of a huge bureaucracy in art education. But that mindset ignores the critical experiment currently taking place in many master’s programmes. Their activities are sharpening our thinking on art education within the academy and art production outside of it.

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features  08.05.13  Dieter Roelstraete

In Letter to a person from the international art world is asked to write an open letter to someone or something of his interest. Dieter Roelstraete writes a letter from his new home town Chicago.

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features  17.04.13  Domeniek Ruyters

Charles Esche talks about L'Internationale, the new confederation of European museums: 'The affinity between all the institutes is located in a wish to rethink the model of the museum from the perspective of public "use" or relevance.'

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features  08.04.13 

Almost 40 pages on the Master education at Dutch Art Schools (in English).

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reviews  03.04.13  Hinde Haest

EYE celebrates its first birthday with retrospective Johan van der Keuken - Up to the Light. It is the first exhibition to focus on a Dutch artist exclusively. The structured chaos of film, text and photography demands active engagement on the part of the visitor. Warning: unsuited for the lazy viewer.

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Call for a dialogue in Turkey 18.06.13
As public cultural institutions dedicated to the sharing and support of a wide range of ideas and information, we deplore the violent suppression of legitimate public protest in Turkey.
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On Friday night Swiss police fired rubber bullets and teargas at an artist-activist group who took over Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata and architect Christophe Scheidegger's politically uncomfortable 'favela cafe' at Art Basel, a fully working eatery in the guise of Brasil's ad-hoc urban areas. Art Basel had allowed the group to protest for a limited time. (video) DR - 17.06.13

Superuse: meet the Dutch architects transforming the world with waste. A new exhibition shows how to grow mushrooms on coffee grounds, make a playground out of old wind turbines – and how much you can do with a windscreen DR - 12.06.13

Orhan Pamuk in The Newyorker: In order to make sense of the protests in Taksim Square, in Istanbul, this week, and to understand those brave people who are out on the street, fighting against the police and choking on tear gas, I’d like to share a personal story. DR - 09.06.13

More on OccupyGezi in Turkey. Part 1 & Part 2 DR - 08.06.13

We’ve braved our fair share of long lines at the Venice Biennale. Waiting’s rarely fun, but it hasn’t been entirely awful thanks to artist Jonas Staal and De Heren van Design’s “Ideological Guide to The Venice Biennale”. We’ve been reading a lot of it. DR - 31.05.13

Mugshot vs. Facebook = Surveillance vs. Social Media. DR - 30.05.13

Dioramas by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, to be shown in Venice, reconstruct his illegal detention in China in minute detail. DR - 29.05.13

Iraq pavilion challenges 'rockets and bombs' view of country to showcase an art world painstakingly emerging from shadow of Saddam and invasion. DR - 29.05.13

Launch Global Curating Prize 29.05.13
Qatar Museums Authority and Fondazione Prada announced the launch today of Curate, a global competition to find new curating talent, the first of its kind. Entry opens today Wednesday 29 May 2013 online on www.curateaward.org
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