Mark, wedge, explode.
Interrogate, confront, shock.
Act / Out at Onomatopee

reviews  29.06.11  Nicola Bozzi

The works in the exhibition Act / Out at Onomatopee suggest a will to to spring out into the public spaces that inspired them.

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Art Basel 2011

reviews  19.06.11  Alexander Mayhew

Alexander Mayhew is in search of the real gems amongst the shiny and large art objects that dominate this year’s Art Basel.

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Forget America
Conference on private or public funding in NY

reviews  14.06.11  Nader Vossoughian

Which funding model serves the arts best? On June 10th, the same day the Dutch art world received the devastating news on the extent of the culture cuts, art professionals gathered in New York City for a conference comparing different models of private and public funding in the United States and the Netherlands.

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Alexandre Singh in Paris
Meet Osmin, an articulate, hilariously obnoxious tape recorder

reviews  07.06.11  Jesse van Winden

Paris
Palais de Tokyo
22/04/11 - 19/06/11

In La Critique de l’Ecole des Objets at Palais de Tokyo Alexandre Singh examines the complex relationships between the art world, humanness and objecthood in a hilarious but intriguing way.

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What Could Post/Autonomia Mean Today?

reviews  01.06.11  Nguyen Vu Thuc Linh

On May 19-21 the Post/Autonomia conference took place at SMART Project Space in Amsterdam, analysing the legacy of the Italian Autonomia movement from the seventies and connecting it to the current political attitude towards contemporary art, artists and art institutions.

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3 x Berlin
Nina Canell, Barry MacGregor Johnston, Tobias Putrih

reviews  24.05.11  Judith Vrancken

Berlin
Konrad Fischer Galerie / Galerie Micky Schubert / Galerija Gregor Podnar
29/04/11 - 01/07/11

This spring, Berlin galleries show an intensified focus on installation art that comes with an intensified visual experience.

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ISCP Open Studios 2011 in New York

reviews  19.05.11  Fleur van Muiswinkel

Last weekend, far away from the mighty Chelsea and across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, 36 international artists, curators and collectives opened their studios to the public.

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Glenn Ligon in New York
I’m Turning Into a Specter Before Your Very Eyes and I’m Going to Haunt You

reviews  10.05.11  Nguyen Vu Thuc Linh

Whitney Museum
New York
10/03/11 - 05/06/11

Glenn Ligon's mid-career retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum allows to look beyond the aspects usually associated with his work.

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From Sharjah to Dubai and back again (part 2):
Art Dubai and gallery openings

reviews  20.04.11  Nat Muller

An interesting time to experience a week of art extravaganza in the United Arab Emirates.

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Opening doors
Heimspiel 2011 in Cologne

reviews  11.04.11  Marion Ritter

The Cologne based festival shows theatre on the verge of intervention, performance and political activism.

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Anarchism 13.05.13
Join Nicoline van Harskamp (and her team at NASA) for the last and full reading day of Reading Anarchism with Katrin Böhm, Melanie Bonajo, John Jordan and Elena Loizidou. With music by Almudena Rubio Perez.
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More on Frieze New York (no images). Also here (images). And here (a case of censorship - met voor de Nederlanders een hoog kroningsdaggehalte - 'overijverige dienders' van wie de organisatie zich distantieert). DR - 11.05.13

Visiting Frieze New York on Randall’s Island is like being sucked into a black hole. You get on a ferry (or a bus, or a bike, or a taxi), enter a giant, spacious tent, and then time stops. Or it disappears. Or it slips away. Next thing you know, you stumble out dehydrated and drunk off your speakeasy cocktail (more on that tomorrow) and notice the sun starting to sink in the sky. DR - 11.05.13

The British arts community has hit back at government demands to focus on economics and profitability by producing a report showing it offers the country blockbuster profits on the back of arthouse funding. DR - 09.05.13

The museum dedicated to Princess Diana will close next year and her sons Prince William and Prince Harry will be taking possession of her belongings. DR - 08.05.13

Frieze Art Fair is coming to town. Art Fag City is fully prepared: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fairs DR - 08.05.13

Maria Lassnig and Marisa Merz 06.05.13
Maria Lassnig and Marisa Merz will be the recipients of the Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement of the 55th International Art Exhibition – Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace) (Venice, Giardini and Arsenale, June 1– November 24, 2013).
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From photo booth candids to celebrity party shots, Tracey Emin reflects on how photographs – hers and others' – have filled a childhood void + album. DR - 06.05.13

Josef Strau on Mike Kelley (Artforum). DR - 01.05.13

This is a love letter to Brussels. DR - 01.05.13

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