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Who Is Ringing The Alarm?

opinion 23.04.10 Anna Tilroe

In a previous issue, METROPOLIS M asked artists what role they believe art plays in today's crisis-battered world. We continue the discussion here with a contribution from Anna Tilroe, who in the form of a letter, asks whether the art world, certainly in the Netherlands, is really interested in social engagement.

The Joke of the Great Nothing

opinion 07/01/10 Merijn Oudenampsen

After the proclamation of the end of history, now the future is in crisis as well. How do we escape this stalemate?

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Art or conversation? Rirkrit Tiravanija's new film project

opinion 26.08.09 Ingrid Commandeur

Berlin
Galerie Neugerriemschneider
15/06/09 - 16/09/09

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Against 'Common Sense'

opinion 09/04/09 Hans-Christian Dany

In reaction to the article 'Common Sense' by Charles Esche in the December issue of Artforum German critic and curator Hans-Christian Dany presents his view on the significance of the credit crisis for art.

Do Artworks Curate Too?

opinion 03/02/09 Raimundas Malasauskas

Are artworks the only full time curators we know?

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Fresh signals

News & links from Metropolis M & co.

As South Africa gears up for the games, government funding for arts initiatives dries up. JV - 08.06.10

Saatchi's 'Newspeak, British Art Now': the good, bad and indifferent according to The Guardian. JV - 07.06.10

Anthony Gormley brings a disorientating holographic matrix to White Cube London. DR - 04.06.10

The LA Times gives Jeffrey Deitch, new director of MOCA, advice on how to run his museum. JV - 03.06.10

Louise Bourgeois dies of a heart attack at 98. JV - 01.06.10

dOCUMENTA (13) 27.05.10
Presentation of the first artwork of dOCUMENTA (13) on June 21st, 2010 in Kassel’s Auepark.
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Julie Ault in town 27.05.10
Tonight in Utrecht: book presentation of 'Show and Tell: A Chronicle of Group Material,' the first monograph on the New York based artists' collaborative (1979-1996) acclaimed for their political and experimental exhibition-making practices in Utrecht.
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Top 10: biggest art thefts of the 20th century. JV - 25.05.10

Jennifer Davies interviews Bice Curiger. The Swiss curator Curiger has recently been appointed to one of the art world’s biggest posts at the Venice Biennale. (radio-interview) DR - 21.05.10

Israel-born artist Yael Bartana has been awarded the 2010 Artes Mundi Prize, the biggest contemporary arts prize in the UK. DR - 21.05.10

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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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