news  11.07.11  Domeniek Ruyters

The decision to stop the funding of SKOR seems to be an ideological one.

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news  14.06.11  De Zaak Nu

The Dutch art world is shocked by the news of the culture cuts that were announced by the Dutch Secretary of Culture Halbe Zijlstra on June 10th.

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Ann Goldstein reviews her first year at The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

21/02/11  Jolien Verlaek

E-flux, the New York-based distributor of information on art, has taken the initiative of setting up a worldwide system of time-based currency for artists and curators. Anton Vidokle, co-founder of e-flux and Time/Bank talks about the motives behind this alternative economic service.

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Never before did an artist win the Turner Prize with a sound installation. Susan Philipsz was this year's art world favourite to be awarded the prize, and she did. In the Tate report above you can see the artist collecting the prize from Miuccia Prada and give a shout out in her speech to the protesters outside the building: 'Art and education is a right not a privilige and I support the arts against the cuts'. Read the Guardian report here.

news  08.11.10  Pieternel Vermoortel

A report on the serious cuts in funding for the arts in the UK.

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A walk through The Temporary Stedelijk

news  27.08.10  Jolien Verlaek

Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum
28/08/10 - 09/01/11

With the exhibitions Taking Place and Monumentalism, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam finally opens its doors after 6 years of closure - temporarily. For those who can't wait untill August 28: this video will give you a preview, including talks to curator Jelle Bouwhuis on his Monumentalism show (Dutch) and artist Ruth Buchanan on her experience of working in the Stedelijk Museum.

news  12.06.10  Laurie Cluitmans & Arnisa Zeqo

A short obituary.

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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

Josef Strau on Mike Kelley (Artforum). DR - 01.05.13

This is a love letter to Brussels. DR - 01.05.13

Opening soon Frieze Art Fair New York. This year Frieze Projects is continuing last year's tradition of remembering a legendary New York spot by having artists cook as a tribute to FOOD, the restaurant Gordon Matta-Clark, Tina Girouard, Carol Gooden and others ran in Soho beginning in 1971 at 127 Prince Street. (It’s a Lucky Jeans store now.) DR - 27.04.13

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