Bibliography

Catalogue with the exhibition The Most Dangerous Game in Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin in 2018. The catalogue has an inlay which warns readers that chapter 3 contains descriptions of sexual acts and violence, which could be disturbing. Not advisable for readers under 18 years old.

Catalogue with the exhibition The Most Dangerous Game in Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin in 2018. The catalogue has an inlay which warns readers that chapter 3 contains descriptions of sexual acts and violence, which could be disturbing. Not advisable for readers under 18 years old.

Catalogue with the exhibition The Most Dangerous Game in Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin in 2018. The catalogue has an inlay which warns readers that chapter 3 contains descriptions of sexual acts and violence, which could be disturbing. Not advisable for readers under 18 years old.

In honor of the 35th anniversary of the Rabo Art Collection, three beautiful books have been made. Together they tell the story of the collection.

Published in conjunction with the Dutch Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2018, is the book Work, Body, Leisure. Selected essays are published in installments on this website

Essay on Constant’s New Babylon by Darren Jorgesen and Laetitia Wilson for Invisible Culture, 2017.

In this interview for the Oral History Project of Fondation Constant art historian, Willemijn Stokvis talks about her encounters with Constant in the seventies and eighties, his influence within the CoBrA group, their first exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the encounters with the artists that led to her thesis and her personal memories of him. Interviewer: Karel Ankerman

Article on Hans Sonnenberg (1928-2017), gallerist of Gallery Delta, who died September 29, 2017 by Peter de Waard in De Volkskrant.

Sixty years after Guy Debord, joined by a group of artists, thinkers and revolutionaries, established the Situationist International, the forms of advanced capitalism they critiqued - commodity fetishism, social alienation and the replacement of significance by spectacle - have become the bedrock of twenty-first-century society. So what is their legacy today? McKenzie Wark weighs things up.

An interview with Constant by Mark Rappolt, 2003 in ArtForum of October, 2017

A preview of the book Dichter van de droge naald. Frank Lodeizen 1931-2013 by Rineke van Houten in Vrij Nederland, September 2017. A charming insight of the scene the Cobra artists and poets moved around in.

Review of the exhibition Spectrum Design - van Rietveld tot Wilcke at Museum De Acht Zaligheden. Mentioning the furtniture that Constant designed for t Spectrum in 1953.

A book review of the catalogue Constant: Space + Color. From Cobra to New Babylon in Bookforum, summer 2017.

Writer/poet K. Schippers shares his memories about architects and artists surrounding Theo van Doesburg, founder of De Stijl. Quote from the article about the Cobra exhibition in 1949 at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam:

Interview with Massimiliano Gioni - Fondazione Nicola Trussardi about the exhibition LA TERRA INQUIETA at the Triennale Milano from April 28th till August 20th.

And Het Acrobatenschip by Constant's brother Jan Nieuwenhuijs is donated to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam by his wife Cockie

"A floating anarchist with megalomane characteristics" Wim Pijbes and Winy Maas discuss Constant's New Babylon project during the build up of the exhibition Constant. New Babylon. To Us Liberty Gemeentemuseum Den Haag​ in 2016 in episode De Nieuwe Tijd in the series Panorama Pijbes on NTR. 00:20:50-00:32:53

The architectural magazine Casabella lists the catalogue Constant. Space + Color as a good read on it's reading list in the january 2017 edition 869.

The English translation of the famous book by Willemijn Stokvis Cobra 1948-1951 | Terug naar de bronnen van kunst en leven, which has seen many editions since it was first published in 1974.

An essay by Bram Ieven for the publication Speculative Art Histories by Edinburgh University Press, 2017. NB: Published here is the unedited version.

An essay by Bram Ieven for the publication Speculative Art Histories by Edinburgh University Press, 2017. NB: Published here is the unedited version.

With the help of 100 artworks, this book guides you through the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. ... Ten introductory texts impart everything you need to know about modern art, prhotography, and design.

Over the last several years, Smiljan Radić has become one of the world’s most renowned architects due to his extravagant work, unique combination of materials, and “significant contribution to architecture as an art,” according to the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize 2018, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. ROUGH WORK compiles an essential part of Radić’s creations, offering a look into his thoughts, inspirations, heroes, and a selection of 24 key projects that help understand the larger work of this extraordinary architect.

This book on the renowned postwar avant-garde artistic movement offers a comprehensive insight into Cobra’s history and achievements, and explores its lasting influences on contemporary art. The European artistic collective known as Cobra was born in the wake of World War II’s devastating events, its name an acronym for the native cities of its founders: Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and Brussels. The influential group of painters and sculptors had a tremendous impact on the development of European Abstract Expressionism, and contemporary art in general.