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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Lego for Fans of Social Theory (among others: Foucault-Giddens-Hall-Butler). DR - 23.02.13

The Bride and The Bachelor in Barbican - Duchamp and his legacy. Philippe Parreno did the exhibition design. DR - 23.02.13

David Bowie & me DR - 23.02.13

Former West in Berlin 19.02.13
Documents, Constellations, Prospects, 18–24 March 2013. During a seven-day long gathering, artworks, talks, dialogues, rehearsals, performances, workshops, and mutual learning in various constellations of documents and prospects offer a multitude of encounters for negotiating the way of the world from 1989 to today, and for thinking beyond.
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Move over galleries: artists sign with agents. As Stuart Semple joins an agency that also represents models and musicians, is there a new way to sell art? DR - 18.02.13

Cooper Union’s Free Tuition Tradition May Be Near Its End. The university, which offers world-class instruction in art, architecture and engineering, but no expensive athletic programs, no tricked-out student centers, no plush lawns to sprawl on between classes, is currently losing $12 million a year, about a fifth of its overall budget. DR - 16.02.13

The Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto is designing this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. Here's a look at some of his best-known projects, including the Final Wooden House made from chunky timber beams. DR - 16.02.13

Graphic Design as Political Practice. An Interview with MetahavenDR - 15.02.13

New Curator Garage Center for Contemporary Culture 12.02.13
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture is delighted to announce that Kate Fowle, Executive Director of Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, has been appointed as its new Chief Curator.
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Candida Höfer's best photograph – an 18th-century theatre in Mantua
'I was travelling around Italy when I came across this amazing theatre. Mozart played it at the age of 13' DR - 07.02.13

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