features  23.11.12  Vincent van Velsen

Ideals just do not make sense. In his large canvasses Philipp Kremer questions reality and perfection trough figuration and harmony. This is the first in a series of short preview portraits.

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features  22.11.12  Domeniek Ruyters

Tomorrow opens INexactly This - Festival of Independents. Formerly known as The Kunstvlaai. Metropolis M talks with the curators: Natasha Ginwala & Fleur van Muiswinkel.

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reviews  19.11.12  Judith Vrancken

Mircea Cantor plays with the uncertainty of the delicate balance between life and death, safety and danger, falling or standing.

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features  13.11.12 

Dutch artists Bas van den Hurk and Pim Kersten show their work together with Italian artist Gino Bosa in Sabspace in Padua, Italy. The exhibition is inspired by an article on Buster Keaton and the formality of his gestures. Here are the photo's.

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features  10.11.12  Fionn Meade

There is a mysterious atmosphere in the work of Croatian artist David Maljkovic: monuments from the history of modernism are exposed in videos and deployed anew in what appears to be an hommage. With his current exhibition in Eindhoven, Maljkovic also seems to be increasingly applying this procedure to his own work and to the exhibition itself, in an attempt to shed new light on it.

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features  23.10.12  Júlia Rebouças

The young Brazilian artist Jonathas de Andrade (b. 1982) makes conceptually-oriented work with a strong melancholic undertone. His work is being shown in Europe more and more often.

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features  21.10.12  Alexander Mayhew

He accompanied Tino Sehgal to Japan by train, right across Russia. For six weeks, he travelled with the artist who does not want to fly. Jan Mot, a reluctant Brussels gallery owner, sees a gallery as a way to make his life interesting. He recently opened a second gallery in Mexico City.

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features  19.10.12  Falke Pisano

Falke Pisano, participant of the Amsterdam Pavilion at the Shanghai Biennale, took pictures of the exhibitions.

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features  13.10.12  Metropolis M 

On the gallery as an idealistic institution, David Maljkovic, Julika Rudelius, Powerhouse e-flux, 10 anti-capitalist book suggestions, Jonathas de Andrade, and much more.

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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

Frieze Art Fair is coming to town. Art Fag City is fully prepared: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fairs DR - 08.05.13

Maria Lassnig and Marisa Merz 06.05.13
Maria Lassnig and Marisa Merz will be the recipients of the Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement of the 55th International Art Exhibition – Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace) (Venice, Giardini and Arsenale, June 1– November 24, 2013).
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From photo booth candids to celebrity party shots, Tracey Emin reflects on how photographs – hers and others' – have filled a childhood void + albumDR - 06.05.13

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