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Richard Wright Psychedelic Wall Drawings

features 08.12.09 Anja Dorn

In 2006 METROPOLIS M published this interview with this year's winner of the Turner Prize Richard Wright.

Scenography of a Tempered Existence Germaine Kruip in Düsseldorf and Almere

features 25.11.09 Catrin Lorch

Almere
De Paviljoens
21/11/09 - 11/04/10

In the work of Germaine Kruip, space is a playing field. Sometimes you are standing smack in the middle, on a stage filled with spotlights, but most of the time the spectacle unfolds at a distance, in an abstraction, as an idea. In association with her exhibitions in Düsseldorf and Almere, here is a conversation about the theatre that is in all of us – and in nature.

Afraid of Sculpture An Interview with John Baldessari

features 23.11.09 Catherine Taft

Tate Modern is currently showing a large exhibition of John Baldessari's work. A year ago METROPOLIS M published this interview. Catherine Taft visited Baldessari's studio and spoke with him about his life as an artist and teacher of art.

NARB, Taking the temperature of the art world

features 02.11.09 Erik van Tuijn

Interview with Tijs Teulings and James Burke, founders of NARB.me, the online platform for ‘people filtered art’ which offers a micro blog and art agenda as well as an interactive list of ‘hottest exhibitions’ all rolled into one.

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I did not have relational asthmatics with that woman, although I did cough in her lemon grass soup

features 29/10/09 Maxine Kopsa

In the new issue of METROPOLIS M magazine, Michael Portnoy talks about his performances, including his infamous 'Soy Bomb' stunt at the 1998 Grammy Awards. This item contains several video's of Portnoy's work to date.

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Fresh signals

News & links from Metropolis M & co.

Tracey Emin, Brian Eno, Vivienne Westwood and fellow artists, write a letter in which they state that there is something inappropriate about the Tate Modern hosting the now-cancelled launch party for Tony Blair's memoirs. JV - 09.09.10

Allora & Calzadilla to Venice 08.09.10

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Tate Modern: a victim of its own succes. Overcrowded galleries make an extension necessary, says director Serota. But is this the moment to be getting bigger, especially since the Tate Modern barely has the money to maintain the building it has? JV - 07.09.10

Ann Liv Young - the artist who was removed from MoMA P.S.1 six months ago by director Klaus Biesenbach after insulting fellow artists and urinating and masturbating on stage - will make her return to the museum to explain her performance. JV - 02.09.10

Screening Premium (1971) at Lost & Found 01.09.10
Intrigued by Aaron Schuster's article in METROPOLIS M, nr. 3, the Amsterdam based Lost & Found searched for Ed Ruscha's Premium (1971). The rare screening on celluloid is on friday September 3rd.
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Director Ekow Eshun and chairman Alan Yentob to quit after ICA survives financial crisis. The friday night press release indicates the institute hopes for it to pass under the radar. JV - 30.08.10

At least 8,000 people were evacuated from the British Museum in London on Saturday after what was described as a 'gas' incident. The cause of the scare remains a mystery. JV - 29.08.10

Egyptian minister detained over stolen Van Gogh. Deputy culture minister Mohsen Shalaan to be investigated on suspicion of 'professional delinquency' over theft from Cairo museum JV - 24.08.10

Warhols sell for millions. But who decides which ones are genuine? And are they always right? The Guardian writes on a scandal that rocked the art world. (wel boeiend) DR - 21.08.10

Opening Soon 17.08.10
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam announces artists in the exhibition Taking Place.
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Artists, a curator and an anthropologist from METROPOLIS M No.4

The latest issue of METROPOLIS M features theorists, key figures from the heydays of conceptual art, contemporary artists, and several bright young artists anxious to start off their career. Meet some of the protagonists of METROPOLIS M no. 4, and get to know them through the video’s that surface on the Internet.

JONAS STAAL. See this 51-min. documentary, and read his column in METROPOLIS M No 4.

SIMON SHEIKH (1965, D) curator and theorist, speaking at the FormerWest Congress in Utrecht.

RORY PILGRIM (1988, UK), artist, recently finished his stay at De Ateliers. Two of his performances: Love in Uganda, and (Can We Help U)?.

JAN DIBBETS (1941, NL). Here A 20-min report about the re-enactment of 6 Hour Tide Object With Correction of Perspective, 2009, Rotterdam.

MONICA BONVICINI (1965, It). A video report of her show Bet your sweet life at Max Hetzler, Berlin. , including several works that are also talked about in her interview in METROPOLIS M No. 4.

GERT & UWE TOBIAS (1973). Report on their show in Kunsthalle Bonn 2008.

MARK BOULOS.(1975, USA) on his work All That Is Solid Melts into Air.

CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS (1908-2009), French anthropologist and ethnologist, on the mythe.

MATTHEW BUCKINGHAM (1963, USA). Recent interview on his work.

JOHN CAGE (1912-1992, USA) on silence.

HITO STEYERL (1966, Germany) on her work Red Alert .

Read more on these and many more artists in METROPOLIS M, no. 4

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