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News & links from Metropolis M & co.

Accessible to everybody in DIY, Britains art superstars: iHirst, iBanksy, iWhiteread iEmin and iQuinn. JV - 24.06.10

National Museum in Warsaw director under fire from within. The majority of staff, supported by all the art curators and heads of conservation, are urging Piotr Piotrowski to resign. His programme is seen as too contemporary. JV - 22.06.10

Study: aesthetic judgment is driven by social pressure. JV - 21.06.10

At a press conference, a 89-year-old grandmother comes forward as Banksy: 'Those drawings? Oh, yes, those are mine'. JV - 18.06.10

Whitneys that never were. Here are the dumped design proposals of the last quarter century (slideshow). JV - 17.06.10

London Calling: UK artists pay tribute to The Clash's artist Ray Lowry. JV - 16.06.10

Newsweek declares the age of "Starchitecture" and the "trophy building" to be over. JV - 14.06.10

Art Fag City: MoMA curator Klaus Biesenbach makes his two-decade-long love for Marina Abramović public and claims she can't see very well - meaning she didn't see all the sitters that sat across from her at the MoMA for the last three months. Will this speech mark his biggest career blunder? JV - 14.06.10

Museums enter the 21st century: Guggenheim and YouTube collaborate to seek budding video artists, and the British Museum enlists in the Wikipedia revolution. JV - 14.06.10

Funding: the state of the art. In a world mired in economic uncertainty and with cash for the arts disappearing, how do we argue for culture? JV - 09.06.10

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