Adorno's Grey
Hito Steyerl at Wilfried lentz

reviews  28.11.12  Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk

Hito Steyerl's installation Adorno's Grey depicts a history and research that happened between the (reportedly upon Adorno's request grey painted) walls of the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt.

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INexactly THIS -photo report

reviews  23.11.12 

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Don't judge, filter, shoot
Mircea Cantor at Centre Pompidou

reviews  19.11.12  Judith Vrancken

Mircea Cantor plays with the uncertainty of the delicate balance between life and death, safety and danger, falling or standing.

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Report of the 3rd Former West Research Congress, Part Two

reviews  05.10.12  Nguyen Vu Thuc Linh

Last Saturday in Utrecht, over the course of almost twelve hours of the dense congress ‘Beyond What Was Contemporary Art Continued’, which was the third Former West Research Congress, various cultural producers, mainly from Europe and North Africa contributed to the discursive process of the undoing of the West.

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Al Araba Al Madfuna
Wael Shawky at KW

reviews  13.09.12  Judith Vrancken

The Berlin Art Week is in full swing, with the ABC fair, gallery openings and events all over town. KW shows Wael Shawky's exhibition Al Araba Al Madfuna, re-performing political and historical Egyptian events.

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Inescapable participation in a normalized industry
Wesley Meuris at Casino Luxembourg

reviews  13.08.12  Jesse van Winden

A shiny white reception desk in a well-lit spacious room, flat-screen displays, tasteful plants: who has never been to Casino Luxembourg before, won’t notice anything remarkable at the entrance hall during Wesley Meuris’ exhibition R-05.Q-IP.0001.

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Demolition of a shipyard
Alternativa 2012 in Gdansk

reviews  09.08.12  Maaike Gouwenberg

The second year of Alternativa in Gdansk takes place in the same spaces as its first edition, but the surrounding of the buildings and the outdoor atmosphere has changed, and is changing drastically every day.

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Autonomy and Its Contradictions

reviews  25.06.12  Nicola Bozzi

Like in every discussion dealing with art and autonomy, the questions outnumber the answers. Report on a lecture by Andrea Fraser at the Van Abbemuseum, which focuses partly on autonomy from a psychoanalytical standpoint.

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Art Basel / Liste 2012

reviews  15.06.12  Maaike Lauwaert

'Seeing your gallerist at work is like hearing your parents having sex’, John Baldessari once commented on the awkwardness of visiting art fairs. Maaike Lauwaert visits Art Basel and Liste and connects her observations to three striking quotes.

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Taking to the streets
11th Havana Biennale

reviews  07.06.12  Adriana Gonzalez Hulshof

The 11th Havana Biennale is a celebration of art. Throughout the city, not only museums, galleries and theaters serve as a platform, but also the streets, parks and El Malecon seaside boulevard are filled with visual and performing arts.

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Art Basel has announced the winners of the 25,000 USD Discoveries Prize at the first edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong they are Navid Nuur and Adrian Ghenie, presented by Galeria Plan B from Berlin and Cluj. DR - 24.05.13

After St Petersburg (2014) to Zurich (2016) 22.05.13
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

Daft Punk's new album is astoundingly ambitious, creating a frenzy even before it has appeared. Dorian Lynskey gets beyond the helmets to talk to the notoriously shy French duo DR - 19.05.13

Final Call 17.05.13
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

Director outlines vision for new Palestinian Museum. Jack Persekian emphasises giving a voice to local history, as foundation stones are laid. DR - 15.05.13

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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