Bibliography

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

Article about the Miró exhibition at the Cobra Museum with references to the Cobra group, Constant and Jorn, and the similarities between the work of Miró and the Cobra group.

Exhibition review of The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up: Cobra and Its Legacy at Blum & Poe, NY.

The New York Times on the exhibition The Avant-Garde Won't Give Up: Cobra and It's Legacy at gallery Blum & Poe in Los Angeles, USA. An article by Roberta Smith, Oct 8, 2015. Read the article here: Cobra Artists Worked With a Passionate Style to Match Their Name

Series of lectures at Illinois Institute of Technology. Main speaker: Mark WigleyOther speakers: Wiel Arets, Trudy Nieuwenhuys and Ludo van HalemSeptember 16, 2015

An article on Shinkichi Tajiri announcing his exhibition Universal Paradoxes at Japan Museum SieboldHuis, Leiden. It references his affiliation with the Cobra movement.

A review of Art Basel 2015, mentioning the New Babylon presentation by BorzoGallery.

Mark Wigley, Author of Constant’s New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire, Princeton; Ludo van Halem, Curator for ‘Constant and the European avant-garde 1950 – 1960' at Cobra Museum, Amstelveen Moderator: Hans den Hartog Jager, Art Critic and Writer, AmsterdamArt Basel-Salon, Thursday, June 18, 2015

MutualArt.com brings an interesting article about Utopian (and Dystopian) art works at Art Basel, in which Constant's New Babylon has not gone unnoticed.

Short piece about the Feature of Constant's New Babylon work by BorzoGallery, Amsterdam.

An interview with PROVO Roel van Duijn about fifty years PROVO with a reference to their connection to New Babylon.

Blog by Anja Marbus on the Exam theme VWO 2015 on Arttube.nl

In his column in weekly magazine HUMO, Joost Zwagerman writes about one of Rembrandt's self portraits in the exhibition Late Rembrandt in the Rijksmuseum, he compares Rembrandt's painting De kunstenaar in zijn atelier (The Artist in His Studio), 1629 to Constant's painting with the same title, from 1977. Read the article (in Dutch) by downloading the pdf below.

Blog by McKenzie Wark on VersoBooks.com

Article on the acquisition of the Diorama's by Kunstmuseum Den Haag. 

Article on the aquisition of the Diorama's by Kunstmuseum Den Haag.

A research by Mylene Jankoswki on the collection of Constant's work by the museum transcending several directorships. 

The artists’ group Cobra (1948-1951) was the most important avant-garde movement in post-war Europe. The founding members came from Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. They comprised, among others, Asger Jorn, Pierre Alechinsky, Constant, Corneille and Karel Appel, and their spontaneous and direct manner of painting, their rebellious theories and broad spectrum of creative expression inspired many other artists. 

The artists’ group Cobra (1948-1951) was the most important avant-garde movement in post-war Europe. The founding members came from Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. They comprised, among others, Asger Jorn, Pierre Alechinsky, Constant, Corneille and Karel Appel, and their spontaneous and direct manner of painting, their rebellious theories and broad spectrum of creative expression inspired many other artists. 

Catalogue for the exhibition Cobra | 1000 Days of Free Art at the Sharjah Art Museum. The exhibition consists of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, works on paper, textiles, films, jazz music, magazines and documentation material from the period 1947 till the early 1960s.

Catalogue for exhibition at Fondazione Roma Museo Palazzo Cipolla.

Catalogue with the exhibition Collection d'art, anno 1969 | een geschiedenis van een moderne galerie at the Cobra Museum from January 18 till April 19, 2015.

Catalogue for the exhibition Constant. New Babylon, the exhibition from October 20, 2015-February 29, 2016 at Museo Reina Sofia.

Exhibition catalogue of Constant. Nueva Babilonia at Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. October 20, 2015 till February 29, 2016.