Documentation

Blog on Constant's New Babylon and Archigram

Blog by a Spanish blogger about Constant's New Babylon and the homo ludens.

Review of the exhibition Met eigen ogen – zelfportretten in de Nederlandse moderne kunst at the Noord-Brabants Museum. Constant's selfportrait is mentioned in the fifth paragraph.

A brief animated history of the avant-garde artist's group CoBrA (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam). COBRA was formed by Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn, and Joseph Noiret in 1948 in the Café Notre-Dame, Paris. They'd sign their manifesto 'La Cause Était Entendue. They split up in 1951.

Article by Ethel Baraona Pohl on the website www.plataformaarquitectura.cl, March 2009.

Interview with Trudy Nieuwenhuys-van der Horst on her book: Constant, de late periode.

A selection of historical documentations about Cobra, 5 dvd's with 12 hours and 15 minutes of material. Including the films Cobra, een opstand tegen de orde, De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel en Ik ben er alleen als ik achter mijn doek sta by Jan Vrijman.
DVD 2: Karel Appel - Constant Nieuwenhuys

Interview with Trudy Nieuwenhuys-van der Horst on her book: Constant, de late periode.

Article on the Oeuvre exhibition Constant in het atelier.

A review of the book Constant De late periode, 2008 on the website of De Eerste Bergense Boekhandel.

Article on the longterm loan of the collection to the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.
July 27, 2008

Essay by McKenzie Wark for Cabinet. 

Report on the authors pursuit to get the false art work taken off the website.

Article on the aquisition of the painting Two Birds by the Cobra museum from the collection of Alain Delon with a 10 min television item from the art series Kunstuur.

Article on the aquisition of the painting Two Birds by the Cobra museum from the collection of Alain Delon with a 10 min television item Nieuw in Nederland from the art series Kunstuur.
December 8, 2007

Essay by Bart Lootsma.

Blog by Piet Vollaard on ArchiNed about the 'New Babylon' building in Den Haag. 

Obituary Stephen Gilbert in The Times. Constant is mentioned in a few paragraphs linked to Cobra.

A documentation of Constant's studio at Wittenburg in Amsterdam and the move in 2008 by Jan de Rode with music by Eric Vaarzon Morel.
Available in the archive for research purposes.

News item on the aquisition of the painting Fauna, 1949 by the Cobra museum from the collection of Hans en Alice de Jong with a small item on the television art series Kunstuur.
Language: Dutch
October 14, 2006