Stedelijk Open

previews  18.09.12  Domeniek Ruyters

The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is opening later this week after a renovation of ten years. The opening show is called Beyond Imagination. Here are some images.

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The Erotic of the Drone
Jordan Crandall at De Wereld van Witte de With

previews  12.09.12  Vincent van Velsen

At the upcoming festival De Wereld van Witte de With, Jordan Crandall explores the phenomenon ‘drones’, with live visual material filmed by drones flying through the space and above the Witte de Withstraat during his performance.

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Leigh Ledare at Wiels
Unseemly, Disturbing, Ominous

previews  06.09.12  Agnieszka Gratza

If you think that every ethical boundary in photography has been breached by now, you haven’t seen the work of the American photographer Leigh Ledare yet. His work balances on the boundary of the permissible, and according to many, is just over the edge. His exhibition Leigh Ledare, et al, opens Saturday at Wiels in Brussels. Have a look at a preview of the exhibition and the interview with Ledare in Metropolis M No. 4-2012.

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Jimmie Durham in M HKA

previews  28.07.12 

Artist and activist Jimmie Durham is presenting his largest retrospective exhibition in years at the M HKA in Antwerp. A photo impression.

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Out for Confrontation
Artur Zmijewski and Joanna Warsza on the 7th Berlin Biennale

previews  22.04.12  Metropolis M 

It looks like the seventh edition of the Berlin Biennale, which opens on April 27, will turn out to be the most activist of them all.

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The ideal shopping experience
Te Kust en te Keur at Mu.ZEE

previews  02.04.12  Jolien Verlaek

For Beaufort 04 artist Lucy McKenzie has curated a project that spectacularly transformes the facade of the Mu.ZEE in Ostend to the building's original function: a department store. Check the first photo's here.

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Flower Castle in Kasteel Keukenhof

previews  29.03.12  Jolien Verlaek

In Lisse, the heart of tulip country near Haarlem, is a newly renovated castle Kasteel Keukenhof home of a special art project by Gijs Stork. Stork selected work by artists and designers devoted to the relation between art & nature.

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Sneak Preview Ai Weiwei at De Pont

previews  02.03.12 

No Chinese artist is more famous than Ai Weiwei. Tomorrow his solo show opens at The Pont in Tilburg. On display will be his Sunflower Seeds, large sculptures, his Duchampian conceptual works, and (new) documentary films showing how the artist works as an activist.

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‘I am a hologram’
Raimundas Malašauskas

previews  07.02.12  Jennifer Teets

Tomorrow Kunstverein Amsterdam presents a new book with selected writings by the Lithuanian curator Raimundas Malašauskas. In the current issue of Metropolis M you can read this interview.

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Tonight: Facing Forward #2 Future Image

previews  14.12.11  Jolien Verlaek

The second evening of the lecture series Facing Forward: Art & Theory from a future perspective is centred around the question: What is the future of the image in the visual arts? Meet the speakers: art historian and art critic James Elkins and thinker Jalal Toufic.

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The board of Manifesta is very proud to announce their selection of the City of Zurich, Switzerland as Host City of Manifesta 11 in 2016.
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The Whitney Museum is going back to basics, or at least that’s what you might think with their new brand identity redesign that was unveiled today. Created by Amsterdam-based Experimental Jetset, the new logo is an acute replacement to the rectilinear typeface rolled out 13 years ago and designed by Abbott Miller of New York-based Pentagram. DR - 22.05.13

Leuk portret van Jeff Koons: Three decades into a choppy but astonishingly high-profile career, Koons remains something of a boy wonder—a trim, soft-spoken, systematic, and tightly scheduled puppet master who speaks in a reassuring near singsong, his language all patient, bright-eyed affirmation, as if reciting from a well-worn, well-worked-out self-help text . Met speciale aandacht voor Buster Balloon, zijn ballonnen expert. DR - 20.05.13

The last full-time art critic in the city of Chicago was laid off by Time Out magazine last month. Now, there are fewer than ten full-time art critics employed by newspapers and magazines in the country.  DR - 20.05.13

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The Gallerist Programma of De Appel is looking for candidates.
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23 May - Onomatopee at the Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven: A day’s programme on poetry and freedom in a European context. DR - 16.05.13

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Buoyant Mood and High Quality Work Equal Strong Sales 15.05.13
The second edition of Frieze New York closed on Monday 13 May with galleries reporting high collector attendance and robust sales across all levels of the market.
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What's the point of art school? Live blog The Guardian DR - 14.05.13

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