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A brief animated history of the avant-garde artist's group CoBrA (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam). COBRA was formed by Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn, and Joseph Noiret in 1948 in the Café Notre-Dame, Paris. They'd sign their manifesto 'La Cause Était Entendue. They split up in 1951.

Article by Ethel Baraona Pohl on the website www.archdaily.cl, March 2009.

Interview with Trudy Nieuwenhuys-van der Horst on her book Constant, de late periode.  

The book 'Architectural Positions On Architecture, Modernity and the Public Sphere' presents the views of 36 international architects who, over the past fifty years, have made their voices heard in the debate on the public sphere. They include Luis Barragán, Peter Eisenman, Louis Kahn, Rem Koolhaas, Leon Krier, Daniel Libeskind, Aldo Rossi, Bernard Tschumi and Oswald Mathias Ungers. The essays in this book give an overview of the past fifty years of architectural discourse on this theme.

A selection of historical documentations about Cobra, 5 dvd's with 12 hours and 15 minutes of material. Including the films Cobra, een opstand tegen de orde, De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel en Ik ben er alleen als ik achter mijn doek sta by Jan Vrijman.DVD 2: Karel Appel - Constant Nieuwenhuys

Published to accompany the exhibition Intensely Dutch at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 5 June-23 August 2009

3 text by Constant translated from the French translations in Jean Clarence Lambert's book New Babylon: Art et Utopie edited by Gustavo Gili. - Nueva Babilonia: una ciudad nómada (1974), p.6-49 - La intensificación del espacio (1974) [It is an extract from the final section of “New Babylon: A Nomadic Town”], p. 49-50 - Descripción de la zona amarilla (1960), p. 51-54 - Auto-diálogo a propósito de Nueva Babilonia (1971), p. 55-64

Catalogue for the exhibition Met eigen ogen: Zelfportretten in de Nederlandse moderne kunst, held from 21 May till 30 August 2009 at the Noordbrabants Museum (Den Bosch, NL).

A speech by Constant's friend Hein van Haren on the occassion of the opening of the exhibition Constant in het atelier at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam from December 13, 2008 till March 22, 2009 and the presentation of the book Constant, de late periode by Trudy van der Horst.

Interview with Trudy Nieuwenhuys-van der Horst on her book Constant, de late periode.

Article on the oeuvre exhibition Constant in het atelier in Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.

A review of the book Constant, de late periode, 2008 on the website of De Eerste Bergense Boekhandel.

Article on the long-term loan of the collection to the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.July 27, 2008

Essay by McKenzie Wark for Cabinet. 

Report on the authors pursuit to get the false art work taken off the website.

Catalogue to the exhibition CoBrA from October 9 - November 29, 2008 at Biasutti & Biasutti Gallery in Turin, Italy.

Publication accompanying the COBRA exhibitoin at Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van Belgie, Brussels (7 November 2008 - 15 February 2009) and COBRA & Co. Prenten en Drukwerk at Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels (7 November 2008 - 4 January 2009).

Catalogue for the travelling exhibition 'CoBrA: as cores da liberdade,' which was held from 6 March till 11 May, 2008 at Centro Cultural Caixanova (Vigo, ES); from 15 May till 22 June, 2008 at Kiosco Alfonso XIII (A Coruña, ES); and from 26 June till 27 July, 2008 at Centro Social Caixanova (Pontevedra, ES). 

Catalogue with the travelling exhibition Cold War Modern | Design 1945-1970 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

The publication of this book accompanied the exhibition Constant in het atelier at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam in 2008-2009.

Catalogue with exhibition with similar title at Ehemalige Staatliche Münze from September 20 till November w, 2008. Urban designs such as Plug-in City by Archigram, La Ville Spatiale by Yona Friedman, and the New Babylon by former CoBrA painter Constant were some of the architectural incunabula of the sixties. Architecture, pop culture, art, and rebellion were uniquely combined with the visions of the Metastructuralists.

Catalog with the exhibition XXste eeuw opening on November 8th, 2008 at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag [Kunstmuseum Den Haag].

Article on the aquisition of the painting Two Birds by the Cobra museum from the collection of Alain Delon with a 10 min television item Nieuw in Nederland from the art series Kunstuur. December 8, 2007