features  01.03.11  METROPOLIS M

This year Metropolis M presents a series of special editions from respected artists. High quality art is now within reach for everyone.

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28/02/11  David Bennewith

It’s like no other magazine on design: Dot Dot Dot. A generation of designers has grown up with it. After ten years and twenty issues, the current editors (Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt) have decided to call it quits. A summing up.

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features  27.02.11  Metropolis M 

Metropolis M No 1 presents AA Bronson, Gabriel Lester, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Olivier Foulon en Jutta Koether, Thea Djordjadze...

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07/01/11  Grant Watson

Business acumen and intellect are the two greatest talents of the art world in India. A report from the rapidly developing subcontinent.

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07/01/11  Viktor Misiano

The art world in Russia is modernizing itself according to the capitalist model, while leaving the old power structures intact. Good art is especially art that sells well. So far so good, but the question is, for how long?

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07/01/11  Annet Dekker

Only by making themselves much more dependent on their public can art museums continue to exist. In the third and last part of a series on the future of the museum, METROPOLIS M offers an interview with Nancy Proctor, specialist in the area of mobile and digital strategies for the museum.

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features  27.01.11  Sanne Oorthuizen

Ruangrupa, an artists' initiative established in 2000 by a group of artists in Jakarta, celebrates its 10th anniversary.

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features  08.01.11  JJ Charlesworth

Roger Hiorns’s object-based art defies any easy definition of ‘sculpture’. Using materials and techniques as varied as crystallisation, brain matter and jet engines, the British artist’s work probes how physical matter encounters invisible registers of experience, association and meaning, exploring how themes such as human consciousness, ritual practice and erotic energy might make sense in our rationalistic, secular world.

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features  08.01.11  METROPOLIS M

METROPOLIS M Nº 6. Out Now. How 'green' is art?; Interview with Roger Hiorns; Art Institutions in Russia and India; Outsider Henry Darger; Mobile Museums, and more...

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features  04.01.11  Ine Gevers

Recent years have seen no shortage of exhibitions concerned with ecology and the environment, but to date, they seem to have had little effect. What seems to be going wrong?

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Shortlist Prix de Rome announced by the Mondriaan Fund 23.03.13
The Mondriaan Fund has announced the names of the visual artists shortlisted by an international jury for the 2013 Prix de Rome. The four nominated artists are:
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Bitcoin is an unregulated, uncontrolled online currency – worth more than £500m, it's the world's fastest growing. It can be used to buy drugs, move money across the world, or get rich quick. The people behind Bitcoin speak to the Guardian's James Ball at their home in a squat in central London DR - 23.03.13

Iraq in Venice 22.03.13
Following studio visits across Iraq, other meetings and much careful thinking, Curator Jonathan Watkins and Commissioner, The Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq (RUYA), have selected eleven artists to participate in Welcome to Iraq, the official Pavilion of Iraq at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia.
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Christo’s latest project, an awe-inspiring installation in an industrial relic in Oberhausen, looks more like a captured dirigible than much of the previous fabric-based work he’s created with his late wife Jeanne-Claude. DR - 22.03.13

Thomas Berghuis 21.03.13
Guggenheim Appoints Thomas Berghuis Curator of Chinese Art.
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Jack Jaeger (1937–2013) 21.03.13
Artist, curator, and editor Jack Jaeger passed away five days ago.
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From London's Olympic Cauldron to Australia's gruesome anti-smoking campaign, take a look at some of the most innovative designs from around the world, on display at the Design Museum in London from 20 March. The winner will be announced on 17 April. INCL The Gentlewoman and a square by Superflex. DR - 20.03.13

Anthony Huberman 19.03.13
Anthony Huberman has been named director of the San Francisco CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, reports Andrew Russeth of the New York Observer.
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Higlights op Tefaf (met Velázquez, Lievens, Soutine, Dubuffet...) DR - 17.03.13

3d print race in design: dress, car and houseDR - 09.03.13

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