previews  18.09.12  Domeniek Ruyters

The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is opening later this week after a renovation of ten years. The opening show is called Beyond Imagination. Here are some images.

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features  14.09.12  Tim Ivison & Tom Vandeputte

Today an increasing number of artists are setting up self-organized, experimental schools under names like the School of Echoes and the Bruce High Quality Foundation University. While mainstream educational institutions are burdened by an excess of bureaucracy and the increasing influence of the market, these initiatives are emerging as strategic alternatives, critical of neoliberal interests.

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reviews  13.09.12  Judith Vrancken

The Berlin Art Week is in full swing, with the ABC fair, gallery openings and events all over town. KW shows Wael Shawky's exhibition Al Araba Al Madfuna, re-performing political and historical Egyptian events.

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previews  12.09.12  Vincent van Velsen

At the upcoming festival De Wereld van Witte de With, Jordan Crandall explores the phenomenon ‘drones’, with live visual material filmed by drones flying through the space and above the Witte de Withstraat during his performance.

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previews  06.09.12  Agnieszka Gratza

If you think that every ethical boundary in photography has been breached by now, you haven’t seen the work of the American photographer Leigh Ledare yet. His work balances on the boundary of the permissible, and according to many, is just over the edge. His exhibition Leigh Ledare, et al, opens Saturday at Wiels in Brussels. Have a look at a preview of the exhibition and the interview with Ledare in Metropolis M No. 4-2012.

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features  01.09.12  Daniël van der Poel

Internationally, their theory is finding ample response, from the columns of the British art magazine frieze, for example, but not much has been written about them in the Netherlands. Who are the cultural philosophers Robin van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen and how relevant is their theory on Metamodernism?

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features  16.08.12  Metropolis M 

Photography+ special - Stedelijk open - Kudzanai Chiurai - Artist's schools - Metamodernism and more.

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reviews  13.08.12  Jesse van Winden

A shiny white reception desk in a well-lit spacious room, flat-screen displays, tasteful plants: who has never been to Casino Luxembourg before, won’t notice anything remarkable at the entrance hall during Wesley Meuris’ exhibition R-05.Q-IP.0001.

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features  10.08.12  Dominic van den Boogerd

With major exhibitions in Madrid and Eindhoven, the highly self-reflective oeuvre of René Daniëls is once again attracting attention. The Eindhoven exhibition offers an opportunity for a review of Daniëls’ late work, which he produced early in his life, due to afterward suffered a stroke. (The full text is published in Metropolis M no. 2 - 2012)

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reviews  09.08.12  Maaike Gouwenberg

The second year of Alternativa in Gdansk takes place in the same spaces as its first edition, but the surrounding of the buildings and the outdoor atmosphere has changed, and is changing drastically every day.

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George W. Bush: the artist? Art critic Jerry Saltz on the paintings of the president: “I actually think the Whitney Museum of American Art could give him a very small survey. I would write about it!” DR - 09.04.13

Liverpool Biennial Appoints Curators for 2014 08.04.13
Liverpool Biennial announces the joint appointment of Mai Abu ElDahab and Anthony Huberman as curators of the 2014 Biennial, which will take place from 5 July to the end of October 2014.
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Jerry Saltz on The Death of The Gallery Show: 'These days, the art world is large and spread out, happening everywhere at once. Selling happens year-round, at art fairs, auctions, biennials, and big exhibitions, as well as online via JPEG files and even via collector apps. Gallery shows are now just another cog in the global wheel. DR - 07.04.13

William Eggleston's photographs of eerie Americana – in picturesDR - 07.04.13

From Justin Bieber to the Obamas and Madonna, the self-taken cameraphone photo – now a staple of Instagram and Twitter – has become one of the cultural markers of our time DR - 03.04.13

Quote of the Day: “Culture is also something personal; it is cultivation with respect to the appreciation of ideas and art and broad human interests. When efficiency is identified with a narrow range of acts, instead of with the spirit and meaning of activity, culture is opposed to efficiency.” —John Dewey, Democracy and Education, 1916 (via TripleCanopy) DR - 02.04.13

Spring Breakers, the new film by Harmony Korine, opens with an impressively staged shot of pure pulchritude—a mass of golden bodies gyrating on a Florida beach—rendered somewhat absurd by the cartoonish sounds of Skrillex’s wacky techno distortions... Review by J. Hoberman in NY Review of booksDR - 01.04.13

Nicole Klagsbrun To Close Gallery 28.03.13
New York art dealer Nicole Klagsbrun will close her gallery of thirty years, reports Charlotte Burns of the Art Newspaper, citing overwhelming changes to the structure of the gallery system.
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Pablo de la Barra on the 8th Central American Bienal in Panama Biennial. Lot's of images. David Bade is also present in Panama - not in the report. DR - 26.03.13

Graphic designer Thomas Widdershoven of Amsterdam studio Thonik has been appointed creative director of Design Academy Eindhoven after a turbulent period for the Dutch institution. DR - 25.03.13

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