Documentation
Bij Miró in zijn Spaanse atelier
2015
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.
Cobra Artists Worked With a Passionate Style to Match Their Name
2015
Exhibition review of The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up: Cobra and Its Legacy at Blum & Poe, NY.
The New York Times | Cobra Artists Worked With a Passionate Style to Match Their Name
2015
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
Dean's Lecture Series: The Constant Dialogue
2015
Series of lectures at Illinois Institute of Technology. Main speaker: Mark WigleyOther speakers: Wiel Arets, Trudy Nieuwenhuys and Ludo van HalemSeptember 16, 2015
Een spoor van knopen
2015
An article on Shinkichi Tajiri announcing his exhibition Universal Paradoxes at Japan Museum SieboldHuis, Leiden. It references his affiliation with the Cobra movement.
Op Art Basel zijn zelfs de braadworsten onbetaalbaar
2015
A review of Art Basel 2015, mentioning the New Babylon presentation by BorzoGallery.
Art Basel: Architect Talk Constant's New Babylon
2015
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
Baseltopia: Searching For Utopia (and Dystopia) at Art Basel 2015
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.
Constant
2015
Short piece about the Feature of Constant's New Babylon work by BorzoGallery, Amsterdam.
De vlam van de opstand moet branden
2015
An interview with PROVO Roel van Duijn about fifty years PROVO with a reference to their connection to New Babylon.
Engagement-Constant en New Babylon
2015
Blog by Anja Marbus on the Exam theme VWO 2015 on Arttube.nl
'The Disappearance of Rembrandt' | Joost Zwagerman's column in HUMO
2015
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.
Alsof de kijker zelf in New Babylon woont
2015
Article on the acquisition of the Diorama's by Kunstmuseum Den Haag.
Constant en het canoniseringsproces in het Stedelijk Museum
2015
A research by Mylene Jankoswki on the collection of Constant's work by the museum transcending several directorships.
Cobra a Brief History
2015
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.
Cobra in vogelvlucht
2015
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.
Cobra | 1000 Days of Free Art
2015
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.
Cobra. Una grande avanguardia europea 1948-1951
2015
Catalogue for exhibition at Fondazione Roma Museo Palazzo Cipolla.
Collection d'art | een galerie
2015
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.
Constant. New Babylon
2015
Catalogue for the exhibition Constant. New Babylon, the exhibition from October 20, 2015-February 29, 2016 at Museo Reina Sofia.
Constant. Nueva Babilonia
2015
Exhibition catalogue of Constant. Nueva Babilonia at Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. October 20, 2015 till February 29, 2016.
El Reina Sofía sueña la Nueva Babilonia
2015
Exhibition review of Constant. Nueva Babilonia at Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.