Documentation

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. 

Exhibition review of Constant. Nueva Babilonia at Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.

Article about the connections between Cobra and Miró and the exhibition at Cobra Museum.

A short article on the passing of Gerrit Kouwenaar mentioning Constant, Karel Appel, Lucebert, the Experimentele Groep Holland and Cobra.

Interview with Adri Duivesteijn about the city innovations he realised as alderman in Almere and Den Haag. He mentions the New Babylon project by Constant as an inspiration.

A guest blog on a photo of Constant by J.J.M. de Jong from 1949 on jedithjadegroot.nl.