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Global Fascisms
foto: Lenny Rothenberg No matter how many times you visit the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures), it never fails to impress: a futuristic-looking building crowned with its enormous curved roof, an effect amplified by the reflection in the ponds at the entrance. Once inside, however, you have to make a mental…… Read more
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Art with a Capital A
Madeleine Bosscher (1942) Art with a Capital A—that’s how the Province of North Brabant regards its art collection, which received special attention last summer thanks to exhibitions devoted to the Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930–2017) at the Textile Museum in Tilburg and in ’s-Hertogenbosch. The largest work in the provincial collection is by her, aptly…… Read more
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Exhausted
Jonas Staal, New World Summit – Utrecht (2016) BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, i.s.m. Universiteit Utrecht. Foto: Nieuwe Beeldenmakers An influential art historian once said that exhaustion is the reason every avant-garde eventually comes to an end. An irrevocable end, not to be recuperated in some neo-this or neo-that. He was referring to art movements, but…… Read more