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.
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Renewed art is not interesting for me. Why always renew art?
2017
An interview with Constant by Mark Rappolt, 2003.
Frank Lodeizen: Bevrijd door Cobra en de Vijftigers
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.
Een zaal in De Acht Zaligheden in Eersel staat in het teken van 't Spectrum. © Fotopersburo van de Meulenhof BV
Kleine maar fijne design-expo in Eersel
2017
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
A book review of the catalogue Constant: Space + Color. From Cobra to New Babylon in Bookforum, summer 2017.
Baldadig minimaal
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:
Triennale di Milano - mostra “La Terra Inquieta”
2017
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
And Het Acrobatenschip by Constant's brother Jan Nieuwenhuijs is donated to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam by his wife Cockie
Panorama Pijbes
2017
"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
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.