British photographer Luke Stephenson is the man behind the quirky, cheerful portraits that we have been using in our latest Cultural Optimism campaign. Stephenson is an artistic photographer, with an eye for documenting. Preferably in large collections. As accurate as…
For four days, Amsterdam is filled to the brim with art. Pretty much all the galleries in Amsterdam organise extras, the Rijksakademie opens its studio spaces to the public and behind the scenes, the industry networks like there’s no tomorrow….
A comb with only one tooth will earn you 50 fluts. A burned out, rusty battery: 1 flut. A hair you just pulled off your head? The shop attendants are relentless: that’s just plain fraud. Purposefully making objects useless is…
One of our leading goals when we got started: new audiences for new makers! And, do you dare to spend an evening discovering unknown names? Compagnietheater, Korzo productiehuis and LIMA tell us why we all should.
He suffers from xenomania, he says. The insatiable need to consume music and films. Job de Wit, music expert and film lover, has joined our team of curators and is starting his quest to find music and film that is…
The question seemed innocent: What European art and culture belongs in a European canon? But my oh my, has that question caused a stir. Words like ‘colonial discourse’, ‘Eurocentrism’ and ‘Western epistemology’ started filling out mailboxes. But there were also…
Puppets, the length of pencils, hang helplessly from strings attached to a Plexiglas ceiling. A tongue made of a foamy material, the length of an arm, rests on a chair. “We spent two hours yesterday figuring out how we could…
It’s an American phenomenon: the ‘storefront church’, a church that’s based in an old storefront. A DIY church, you could call it somewhat disrespectfully, that are often crammed and decorated with limited resources. In poorer neighbourhoods, these storefront churches are…