features  10.12.12  Metropolis M 

The final issue of this year presents 8 interviews with key figures who draw attention in 2012 or will do so in 2013 .

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features  27.11.12  Domeniek Ruyters

In Metropolis M No 5-2012 we present short texts on some of the international participants of INexactly THIS/Kunstvlaai. Here the long, non-edited, uncensored version of the interview with Susan Gibb, founder of Society in Sydney, and curator of the show that presents one of the already iconic images of this year's edition of the Kunstvlaai.

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features  26.11.12  Jolien Verlaek

In the build up of RijksakademieOPEN, resident artist Rubèn Grilo discusses his work, his plans for the future and that the soup never gets to the mouth miraculously.

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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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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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Turner prize 2013 shortlist takes a mischievous turn. A streak of subversive humour runs through the work of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Tino Sehgal, Laure Prouvost and David Shrigley – all nominated for this year's £40,000 art prize. DR - 25.04.13

As more and more people get their information and do their research online, often from the comfort of their own couches, the future of public libraries seems very much up for the debate these days. Research shows: Libraries aren't irrelevant yet.Not in the USA at least. DR - 25.04.13

Opening soon: Zone2Source 24.04.13
Zone2Source is a new international platform which invites artists to develop projects inside and outside of the glass pavilions of the Amstelpark
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New York and London-based artist Ellen Cantor(1963–2013) has died. Cantor was perhaps best known for her ongoing film work Pinochet Porn, which the artist continued to work on as funding allowed since 2009. DR - 23.04.13

Last Call! Short term residencies this Summer at V2. DR - 19.04.13

Tonight at the Stedelijk: Ann Goldstein meets Larry BellDR - 18.04.13

The preparations for documenta 14 have already begun 18.04.13
These eight persons won't become artistic director of the next documenta.
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The Kunstverein Amsterdam is setting a sterling example for museums and galleries worldwide with its announcement for its upcoming show “Larry Bell and Sarah Crowner meet Marlow Moss.” This is how you get people excited, folks. DR - 12.04.13

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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