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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features  27.09.12  Metropolis M 

Only for subscribers: give your friend a free copy of Metropolis M.

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features  19.09.12  Domeniek Ruyters

‘Publishing will support emerging practices more than any art space will do’, Yannick Bouillis, director of the art publishing fair Offprint, strongly believes. Metropolis M speaks with Bouillis in the context of the first Dutch edition of Offprint, which opens on Thursday at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam during Unseen Photo Fair.

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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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features  01.09.12  DaniĆ«l 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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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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features  07.06.12  Metropolis M 

Why is there so much Afghanistan in dOCUMENTA (13)? Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev explains her intentions to Bik Van der Pol. Read the full interview in Metropolis M no. 3 - 2012.

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features  01.06.12  METROPOLIS M

Joined by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Cuauhtémoc Medina, Jimmie Durham, SOSka Group, Non Records, Pamela Rosenkranz, Bart De Baere, Valerie Smith, Tirdad Zolghadr and many others. Out now: Metropolis M no. 3.

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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

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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