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News & links from Metropolis M & co.

Video: 'Life is never guaranteed to be safe'. Ai Wei Wei on why he wants to tell people that it's OK to speak out. JV - 18.03.10

Director of Tate Modern is leaving. Vicente Todoli, who has run the Tate Modern in London for most of the young institution’s existence, has decided to step down. JV - 17.03.10

Plea: art criticism starts with love and hate. Overanalysing art, as opposed to intuitively rating it, is fraught with peril. JV - 17.03.10

German artist Jan Vormann has spent the last three years travelling the world fixing crumbling walls and monuments using Lego. JV - 15.03.10

Bik Van der Pol winners international prize 15.03.10
The Bik van der Pol duo (artists Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol) have won the Enel Contemporanea Award 2010.
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The Saatchi Opus: meet one of the world's biggest art books - all 35kg of it (video). JV - 12.03.10

Tate Modern stages art festival for tenth anniversary celebrations and has invited 50 independent art spaces and collectives, from Shanghai to Prague, to create unique projects. JV - 11.03.10

Name that painting. Have art historical references become the new brand-name-dropping? (video) JV - 10.03.10

Foster. Create. Develop. Diversify…
Museum leaders need real plans, not just buzzwords. JV - 09.03.10

Win, or make, your own Tracey Emin quilt. London's V&A Museum presents step-by-step guide for DIY Emin quilt to promote new exhibition. JV - 07.03.10

Constant Dullaart links & video's

The latest issue of Metropolis M researches the work of rising star in the international exhibition circuit: Constant Dullaart. In regard to the highly internet active nature of his work we provide you a collection of links and video’s contextualizing the article in the magazine.

In 2007, Dullaart and the writers of the popular Dutch soap opera Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden (Good Times, Bad Times), collaborated on creating a fictional character of the prototypical artist: Juan-Stefano Vidal, as the result of a survey amongst Rijksakademie employees. Juan’s studio can be seen on Dullaart’s Flickr page.

Sometimes a coincidentally shared authorship unfolds. For the 2009 exhibition Versions in NIMK, Dullaart created the video series YouTube as a Subject. Electronic media artist ilovetoeatmicedotcom, alias Ben Coonley, responded with a series of his own films that investigate the YouTube trademark.

In turn Dullaart reacted with the installation YouTube as a Sculpture.

As a heavy user of the internet, the extent to which he shares his work and fascinations is extensive. He shares his favourite links on del.icio.us and Nasty Nets, his internet surfing club.

At www.readymades.net he gives a 2.0 meaning to the term 'readymade', which contains a collection of sponsored links, error messages and free domain names.

Archives of his video's can be found here, here and here.

Video's:

Live improvised dvd screensaver (humansaver)

Stabilized Earhquake Footage

TV Heartbeat

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