Kunstenaars-centrum Bergen | Nieuwe expositie geopend

2019
CID: 3210
Review group exposition in Het Huis met de Pilaren in 1948 organised by Kunstenaars-centrum Bergen.

nederland ⇄ bauhaus

2019
CID: 3101
Catalogue with the exhibition nederland ⇄ bauhaus at Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

netherlands ⇄ bauhaus

2019
CID: 3100
Catalogue with the exhibition nederland ⇄ bauhaus at Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

Lelijke leegstand, architecten doe er iets aan!

2018
CID: 2753
Interview with architect Winy Maas about the Dutch Pavillion at the Architect Biennale 2018.

Kijk naar de ruimte hieronder. Is het een ruimte om te werken, of om te ontspannen?

2018
CID: 2754
Review of the Dutch Pavillion at the Architecure Biennale in Venice, 2018.

Gedachten aan Constant

2018
CID: 3197
Thoughts of Constant by Ronald Tolman, colleague and friend.

Flashes of the Future

2018
CID: 3196
Catalogue with the exhibition Flashes of the Future at Ludwig Forum for International Art Aachen in 2018.

The Most Dangerous Game

2018
CID: 2908
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.

Unlocked #3

2018
CID: 2983
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.

WORK, BODY, LEISURE

2018
CID: 2740
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

The Utopian Failure of Constant’s New Babylon

2017
CID: 7129
Essay on Constant’s New Babylon by Darren Jorgesen and Laetitia Wilson for Invisible Culture, 2017.

Willemijn Stokvis | Art Historian

2017
CID: 2773
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

Vlijmscherpe knorrepot met feilloos gevoel voor kunst

2017
CID: 2538
Article on Hans Sonnenberg (1928-2017), gallerist of Gallery Delta, who died September 29, 2017 by Peter de Waard in De Volkskrant.

60 Years of Recuperation | Are the Situasionists still relevant?

2017
CID: 2578
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.

Renewed art is not interesting for me. Why always renew art?

2017
CID: 2579
An interview with Constant by Mark Rappolt, 2003 in ArtForum of October, 2017

Frank Lodeizen: Bevrijd door Cobra en de Vijftigers

2017
CID: 2584
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.

Kleine maar fijne design-expo in Eersel

2017
CID: 2476
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.

Artful Volumes: Constant: Space + Color

2017
CID: 2449
A book review of the catalogue Constant: Space + Color. From Cobra to New Babylon in Bookforum, summer 2017.

Baldadig minimaal

2017
CID: 2424
Writer/poet K. Schippers shares his memories about architects and artists surrounding Theo van Doesburg, founder of De Stijl.

Triennale di Milano - mostra “La Terra Inquieta”

2017
CID: 2423
Interview with Massimiliano Gioni - Fondazione Nicola Trussardi about the exhibition LA TERRA INQUIETA at the Triennale Milano from April 28th till August 20th.

Altijd te zien

2017
CID: 2341
And Het Acrobatenschip by Constant's brother Jan Nieuwenhuijs is donated to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam by his wife Cockie

Panorama Pijbes

2017
CID: 2339
"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

Casabella 869

2017
CID: 2279
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.

Cobra 1948-1951 | The History of a European Avant-Garde Movement

2017
CID: 2444
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.