Hervé This – Art et Science (photo: Wired) Morgan Meis and Stefany Anne Golberg in The Smart Set, Palate or Palette? The like problems behind molecular gastronomy and modern artmaking.: “Contemporary art has an uneasy relationship to form. Sure, art is all about form. But what materials are we forming, and what are the models [...]
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Een gesprek met Guido van der Werve.
November 6th, 2008
‘Everything is going to be allright’, 2007. 16mm film to HD video, 10’10”. Golf of Bothnia, Finland. Image by Ben Geraerts. Metropolis M, Een gesprek met Guido van der Werve. De charme van een poëtische onliner: “(…) Ik houd van simpele ideeën omdat ze altijd erg open zijn. Als je iets tot de kern terug [...]
Tags: art · guido van der werve
Nobody’s a Critic
August 17th, 2008
Morgan Meis in The Smart Set, Nobody’s a Critic. Or they’re at least terrified to be one: “Criticism isn’t powerful anymore. It doesn’t drive anything, it doesn’t define what is good and bad in culture. Surely this has mostly to do with all the changes in the media landscape over the last few decades. Basically, [...]
Tags: art · criticism · immanuel kant · literary critics · literature · philosophy
Webcatalogus Amsterdams Historisch Museum
July 9th, 2008
Gezicht op Amsterdam in vogelvlucht, 1538. Cornelis Anthonisz. (ca. 1505 – 1561). olieverf op paneel, 116 x 159 cm. Amsterdams Historisch Museum, De oude meesters van de stad Amsterdam: “De stad Amsterdam beschikt dankzij schenkingen, legaten en aankopen over een collectie van ruim 1.000 schilderijen, gedateerd vóór 1800. Het is een van de rijkste verzamelingen [...]
Tags: amsterdam · amsterdams historisch museum · art · history
Figuring Marlene Dumas
June 20th, 2008
NYT Magazine, Figuring Marlene Dumas: ““I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now,” she told me with a hint of pride, before going on to list her other negative achievements. “I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.” At 54, Dumas is a jovial and garrulous presence, with [...]
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The Telectroscope
May 25th, 2008
The Telectroscope, tot 15 juni in Londen (Tower Bridge) en NYC (Brooklyn Bridge). Paul St. George, The Telectroscope: “Hardly anyone knows that a secret tunnel runs deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2008, more than a century after it was begun, the tunnel has finally been completed. An extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope [...]
Tags: art · paul st. george · telectroscope
Nina Katchadourian: The Mended Spiderweb series
April 29th, 2008
Mended Spiderweb #19 (Laundry Line) – Cibachrome, 30 x 20 inches, 1998 Nina Katchadourian, The Mended Spiderweb series: “The Mended Spiderweb series came about during a six-week period in June and July in 1998 which I spent on Pörtö. In the forest and around the house where I was living, I searched for broken spiderwebs [...]
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Martijn Hendriks: Give Us Today Our Daily Terror
April 13th, 2008
Martijn Hendriks, Give Us Today Our Daily Terror. Still. (2008 – ongoing). Martijn Hendriks, Give Us Today Our Daily Terror: “Exact copy of Hitchcock’s 1963 film The Birds from which all birds have been removed. Single channel video, color, 119 minutes.” (via)
Tags: alfred hitchcock · art · birds · cinema · martijn hendriks