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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features  31.03.13  Erik Wysocan

Perception is a returning theme in the deceptive work of American artist Tauba Auerbach. Her sensory art is an attempt to penetrate new domains of the brain.

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reviews  16.03.13  Hinde Haest

The basement of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie is absolutely packed. It is the first day of the conference WHERE ARE WE GOING, WALT WHITMAN?, part of Studium Generale. Anselm Franke curated a day of insights into outer-space photography, counterculture, psychoanalysis, animism, and the relation between hairballs and earthquakes.

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features  14.03.13  Domeniek Ruyters

Curator Adam Bubak on his show of the work of Libia Castro and Ôlafur Ôlafsson in TENT Rotterdam: 'Art's role is not to save the world.'

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Final Call 17.05.13
The Gallerist Programma of De Appel is looking for candidates.
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23 May - Onomatopee at the Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven: A day’s programme on poetry and freedom in a European context. DR - 16.05.13

Director outlines vision for new Palestinian Museum. Jack Persekian emphasises giving a voice to local history, as foundation stones are laid. DR - 15.05.13

Buoyant Mood and High Quality Work Equal Strong Sales 15.05.13
The second edition of Frieze New York closed on Monday 13 May with galleries reporting high collector attendance and robust sales across all levels of the market.
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What's the point of art school? Live blog The Guardian DR - 14.05.13

Anarchism 13.05.13
Join Nicoline van Harskamp (and her team at NASA) for the last and full reading day of Reading Anarchism with Katrin Böhm, Melanie Bonajo, John Jordan and Elena Loizidou. With music by Almudena Rubio Perez.
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More on Frieze New York (no images). Also here (images). And here (a case of censorship - met voor de Nederlanders een hoog kroningsdaggehalte - 'overijverige dienders' van wie de organisatie zich distantieert). DR - 11.05.13

Visiting Frieze New York on Randall’s Island is like being sucked into a black hole. You get on a ferry (or a bus, or a bike, or a taxi), enter a giant, spacious tent, and then time stops. Or it disappears. Or it slips away. Next thing you know, you stumble out dehydrated and drunk off your speakeasy cocktail (more on that tomorrow) and notice the sun starting to sink in the sky. DR - 11.05.13

The British arts community has hit back at government demands to focus on economics and profitability by producing a report showing it offers the country blockbuster profits on the back of arthouse fundingDR - 09.05.13

The museum dedicated to Princess Diana will close next year and her sons Prince William and Prince Harry will be taking possession of her belongings. DR - 08.05.13

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