OUT NOW: METROPOLIS M No. 5
SPECIAL: SURVIVAL
How can we respond to the massive budget cuts to the cultural sector in the Netherlands?
Frieze is 20 – Interview with Matthew Slotover, co-founder of Frieze.
The work of the Cuban artist Wilfredo Prieto grows increasingly minimal.
Architect and theorist Markus Miessen wants to break away from culture in search of the greatest common denominator and argues for a politics that magnifies contrasts.
Postcolonialism in the Netherlands.
Art and science are intermingling, as we see in the work of artists Kianoosh Motallebi, Maarten Vanden Eynde and Edith Dekyndt.
Sven Augustijnen’s newest film looks at Belgian colonial history in Congo. He reveals how searching for truth in an art documentary is a pointless and futile effort.
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Tirdad Zolghadr is Metropolis M’s newest regular columnist.
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Documenta 13 thinks ahead. Chus Martínez on the publication series 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts
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And further (Dutch only):
Nina Yuen’s first museum solo show; Vincent Vulsma’s conceptual vandalism; a typography of speed; the young artists Michiel Ceulers and Magdalena Pilko; self-help books on sponsoring art; reviews from Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Middelburg, and more.
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