PUBLIC LETTER European call to support Wiels
features 04.03.10
Partner institutions from the area Amsterdam-Brussels-Cologne want to express their surprise and sadness at the deeply problematic situation in which the Brussels contemporary art centre Wiels finds itself.
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features 20.02.10 Maxine Kopsa
The Museum of American Art is no ordinary museum, but the re-enactment of a museum. It is engaged in making a virtually literal copy of the exhibition history of the MoMA. A discussion about a museum that presents itself as the only ‘real museum of art’.
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URGENT: 13 columns by Marlene Dumas, Claire Fontaine, Fritz Haeg, Nathaniel Mellors, Rein Wolfs, Lucy Stein, Merijn Oudenampsen, Régine Debatty, Nasrin Tabatabai, Slavs & Tatars, Nat Muller, Guus Beumer, Lado Darakhvelidze.
Also: Jeremiah Day about Walker Evans; the sculptures of Rachel Harrison; Goshka Macuga's Guernica; Art twenty years after the Wall; reviews from New York, Istanbul, Züric and new books by Sven Lütticken and Isabelle Graw.
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You can always bank on the Turner Prize to think of something different when it comes to selecting a winner. So, this year's winner once again provides a stark contrast to some of his more controversial predecessors: Richard Wright (49) is a painter, whose wall paintings are always temporary, skillfully done but most of all things of pure beauty. The video above is an interview (by Tate Channel) with Wright on the occasion of his nomination for the Turner Prize. Read the Guardian report here.
