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A blog about a visit to Museo Reina Sofía and the exhibition Constant. Nueva Babilonia by writer, curator and art historian Alexandra Goldman.

A review of the exhibition Constant. Nueva Babilonia at the Museo Reina Sofía, by José Catalán Deus on periodistadigital.com, October 23, 2015.

Review of the exhibition Constant. Nueva Babilonia at the Museo Reina Sofía Madrid.

Catalogue for the exhibition Constant - New Babylon. Aan ons de vrijheid in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag from May 28 till September 25, 2016.

An open city without borders that is capable of flowing out in all directions to allow its residents to develop as freely as they do flexibly. This fascinating utopia of architectural and lifeworld growth forms the starting point of Constant’s (1920–2005) lifelong project: New Babylon. Between 1956 and 1974, the Dutch painter and co-founder of the avant-garde movement COBRA worked on numerous models, paintings, drawings, and collages for the purpose of depicting his vision of the nomadic city of the future.

Catalogue of the exhibition Constant. Ruimte + Kleur at the Cobra Museum of Modern Art Amstelveen, May 28-September 25, 2016.

Catalogue of the exhibition Constant. Ruimte + Kleur at the Cobra Museum of Modern Art Amstelveen, May 28-September 25, 2016.

Het nieuwste kinderkunstboek Constant – Spelen in Nieuw Babylon neemt kinderen mee in de wereld van Constant, de visionaire kunstenaar die in een grote, grijze stad woonde waar de mensen hard werkten en niemand tijd had om te spelen. Behalve Constant. Hij speelde de hele dag, op zijn gitaar en in zijn atelier. Hij maakte de meest fantastische schilderijen. De mensen keken echter niet naar zijn kunst. Ze werkten. Toen hij ging reizen ontmoette hij mensen die lachten en zongen en vierden dat elke dag de zon opkwam en weer onderging.

Catalog with the exhibition European Stars - Miró & CoBrA at Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum Bratislava from June 30 till November 13, 2016.

Organized by NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale and guest-curated by UMass Amherst assistant professor Karen Kurczynski, a leading scholar of Danish Cobra artist Asger Jorn (1914–1973), who represents a new generation of art historians specializing in Cobra, the exhibition presents the history of Cobra through paintings, sculpture, prints, and primary documents by artists such as Asger Jorn, Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Constant, and Corneille.

Catalogue for the exhibition Le Rêve held from 17 September 2016 till 22 January 2017 at Musée Cantini in Marseille, France. 

The Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, in collaboration with Kunstmuseum Den Haag, will be hosting an exhibition called Constant. New Babylon until 29 February 2016, bringing together some 150 works by the founder of the CoBrA European avant-garde movement active from 1948 to 1951.

Book accompanying the exhibition Zie de mens. 100 jaar, honderd gezichten in Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle.

A video installation of 13 short films (10 min) by Julian Rosenfeldt starring Cate Blanchet. The installation premiered in 2015 in Australia. The short where Cate Blanchet plays a homeless man is amongst others based on the text from Constant's Manifest for the Experimental Group Holland in 1948.

A review of Constant. Nueva Babilonia, by Javier Montes for ABC.es, November 13, 2015

Essay by Lynn Berger for de Correspondent about the commercialisation of creativity and Constant's New Babylon February 16, 2015

In this interview for the Oral History Project of Fondation Constant journalist Max Arian speaks about his interview with Constant for his article in magazine De Groene Amsterdammer in 1995 (published in January 17, 1996). He recollects how the interview with Constant influenced his biography of Willem Sandberg and Constant's personality. His critical view of Sandberg shed new light on his impression of the legendary museum director. Interviewer: Karel Ankerman

In this interview for the Oral History Project of Fondation Constant art collector Karel van Stuijvenberg tells about his encounters with Constant, his obsession with collecting CoBrA art, organisingexhibitions in South-Amerika and the exhibition he made in Caracas with Graphic Work by Constant. | Interviewer: Karel Ankerman Audio of the full interview, executed and documented in Dutch, is available in the archive for research purposes. Email Kim van der Horst for more information.

Review of the exhibition The Avant-Garde Won't Give Up at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.

Review of the exhibition Constant. Nueva Babilonia at Museo Reina Sofía Madrid.

Review of the exhibition The Avant-Garde Won't Give Up at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.

Radio: Hunter Drohojowska-Philp talks about the plucky CoBrA artists at Blum & Poe.From this episode:

Announcement of the exhibition The Avant-Garde Won't Give Up at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.

Announcement of the Appel exhibition and Constant - New Babylon exhibition in 2016 at Kunstmuseum Den Haag (formerly known as Gemeentemuseum Den Haag) by the editorial office Den Haag of De Telegraaf, November 11, 2015.