This December I am keeping an advent calendar. Advent is traditionally the period during which the celebration of the birth of Christ is anticipated. During my travels over the past few weeks, I have seen …
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ART ADVENT: week 2
This December I am keeping an advent calendar. Advent is traditionally the period during which the celebration of the birth of Christ is anticipated. During my travels over the past few weeks, I have seen …
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ART ADVENT: week 1
This December I am keeping an advent calendar. Advent is traditionally the period during which the celebration of the birth of Christ is anticipated. During my travels over the past few weeks, I have seen …
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PhD: Public Defense Dissertation
When it’s on the net, it’s real. As announced on the website of Tilburg University, in exactly a week from today, on September 12, I will be publicly defending my PhD dissertation. It’s titled “Making Sense …
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RECAP: Égalité in Amsterdam
Exactly one week ago – on Saturday February 27 – 65 participants performed Elena Kovylina‘s artwork Égalité on the Museumplein in Amsterdam. It was a beautiful and impressive performance, for the participants, audience members, and us …
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PROJECT: Performance Égalité on Museumplein (EN)
On February 27, the ArtWorlds foundation will bring the beautiful performance Égalité, by artist Elena Kovylina to Amsterdam. A human horizon will emerge on the Museumplein, an ultimate visualization of the idea of equality through diversity. …
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ARoS REVIEW: Monet – Lost in Translation
Translating Monet Around the time that ARoS Art Museum opened its major exhibition on French painter Claude Monet, several US art museums were facing protests outside their buildings. A small group of protesters rallied against …
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#MondrianEverywhere Update
Since a while I have started to document public manifestations of the Mondrian style. Previously this blog featured a sneaker and a perfume advertisement in Mondrian’s primary colors and geometric style. Since then I have …
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MARGINALIA REVIEW: Everything You Own in a Box to the Left: Reclaiming the Potential of the Sacred in Music
For the website Marginalia | LA Review of Books, I wrote a review about Christopher Partridge’s The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane (OUP 2013). It was published online on June 9, 2015. In the …
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Column: The Fountain of Abramovic
This is a translation of a column that was featured on the website of the Association of Dutch Art Historians and in the Dutch local newspaper Harlinger Courant on February 20, 2014. ‘Extreme artist designs fountain …
