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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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 books. DR - 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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