Marina Abramović, Portrait with Firewood, 2009. Photo: Marco Anelli. © 2010 Marina Abramovic. Courtesy of artist and Sean Kelly Gallery/ARS, New York. Written by Henri J Sandront Last week was quite “Marina Abramović-filled” here in Amsterdam. The artist offered a quasi
Written by Shanice Bailey Commissioned by the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art for its first annual “Art + Film Gala” and directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman of ‘Catfish’ fame, this now viral video is a humorous six-minute
Written by Shanice Bailey Bodies of Society is the first large-scale American museum exhibition of the work of Swedish artist Klara Lidén. Drawing from the artist’s history of performance and conceptual work, the exhibit features a selection of the physical
Written by Margaux Villard If you are looking for sports clothing in case you would like to reach for the stars, look no further than NikeCraft: a limited edition result of the collaboration between artist Tom Sachs and Nike. The
Mining Building of Waterschei, Genk (BE), exhibition venue for Manifesta 9; photo by Kristof Vrancken Written by Henri Julien Sandront For the past 16 years Manifesta has been an audacious contemporary art biennale. One of its core feature being its
Erich Consemüller, Lis Beyer or Ise Gropius sitting on the B3 club chair by Marcel Breuer and wearing a mask by Oskar Schlemmer and dress fabric by Beyer, c.1927. Herzogenrath, Berlin. Written by Katarina Jansdottir Possibly the world’s most famous
Written by Christine Bornfeld Ron Mandos, a contemporary art gallery in the centre of Amsterdam, is currently exhibiting Nick Ervinck‘s voluminous 3D-sculptures. His plastic arts, whether room-filling or small enough to fit in a modest glas cabinet, are – no
Written by Tatevik Sargsyan Everything that is happening in London this summer seems to be somehow related to the Olympics, this is also the case for the new pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens. Every year a new
Holland Festival and Stedelijk Museum joined hands and invited the two amazing artists for a residency to work on new material for their project ‘Ancient Evenings’. The results of their workshop with some of the leading characters of the film,
Written by Margaux Villard Hitoshi Matsumoto is the director and main actor of Symbol. The movie was released in 2009 and tells the absurd story of a man who wakes up in a pristine room wearing goofy PJ’s, where the