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  • Windmill Nostalgia

    With the word nostalgia, you can go in almost any direction —except the right one. That familiar Dutch saying was my immediate reaction after reading the editorials in the special Nostalgia issue of the art magazine Metropolis M. This despite the editor-in-chief’s attempt to pre-empt criticism by arguing that our present moment calls for a…… Read more

  • The Performer’s Conquest

    Part II On my way back from Paris and Disneyland, I visited the MUDAM (Museum of Modern Art) in Luxembourg, on the third of May, where I encountered a blissful Sunday calm. I had come for the exhibitions of Ivan Cheng and Simon Fujiwara. Not well prepared, I stepped to my surprise into Fujiwara’s “worlds…… Read more

  • Doorbell Policy

    On Wednesday, March 31, artist Dries Verhoeven and curator Rieke Vos presented their plan for the Dutch contribution to the Venice Biennale in Theater Utrecht, a space Verhoeven clearly feels at home in. However varied his projects may have been, they’ve so far landed more comfortably in the world of theater than in the visual…… Read more

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