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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The Venice Architecture Biennale 2014 will be called Fundamentals and will chart the emergence of a "a single modern language" in global architecture, its director Rem Koolhaas has announced. "Fundamentals will be a biennale about architecture, not architects," said Koolhaas, at the event's headquarters in San Marco, Venice. DR - 28.01.13

Saatchi faces competition: Two leading collectors have transformed a former dairy in the heart of London into a vast gallery that will compete with the Saatchi collection for the attention of contemporary art lovers. DR - 28.01.13

MoMA launches series of artist-led participatory programsDR - 23.01.13

Yesterday afternoon, Hauser & Wirth opened the doors to its new space in Chelsea for a preview. The new gallery, the site of the former Roxy nightclub and roller rink on West 18th Street, is a cavernous warehouse that, although it’s technically only one floor, seems to expand and spread in every direction. DR - 23.01.13

Oberhausen Short Films on Tour 22.01.13
„Oberhausen on Tour 2013“, the seventh edition of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen's tour of short films, will begin in Hanover on 26 January, 2013.
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1st Han Nefkens Foundation – BACC Award for Contemporary Art. 21.01.13
Chinese artist Zhou Tao (Changasha, 1976) has been named winner of the 1st Han Nefkens Foundation – BACC (Bangkok Art and Culture Centre) Award for Contemporary Art.
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London department store Selfridges have now opened The Silence Room - a concept originally dreamed up by founder Gordon Selfridge in 1909 which, until now, hadn't come to fruition. Designed by Alex Cochrane Architects, the ground floor space is part of their No Noise campaign and offers a place for shoppers at the store to find peace amongst the bustling emporium. DR - 20.01.13

On March 25th, the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA) welcomes Alain Badiou for a master class at the University of Amsterdam. The master class offers an intensive engagement with Badiou in order to question and clarify his writings on art and politics. DR - 18.01.13

Witte de With- 19 january - Alexandre Singh - Causerie on The Voice and the Chorus. With: Graham Ley (University of Bristol) on the Chorus in Greek Drama; Claudio Vellutini (Ph.D. candidate in Music History and Theory at the University of Chicago) on the history of Opera; Peter de Graeve (University of Louvain) on Nietzsche and music. DR - 16.01.13

Report on the first D.I.Y. Biennial for artists in Kochi-Muziris (artforum) DR - 05.01.13

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