After a period of renovations Kranenburgh opens its beautiful new building to the public on November 12th with the exhibition Wonder. Two days before the official opening I was at the museum for a sneak preview of the exhibition. It was amazing to see the work Portret of Mati from 1946 hang next to the Portrait of Victor (Mati & Constant's son) from that same year.
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Jørgen Nash, Constant and Victor Nieuwenhuys. Constant working on the mural of painted cement at the home of Jørgen Nash in Tibirkelunde, Denmark, in May 1949.
In May 1949 Constant painted and sculpted a wall at the house of his friend Jørgen Nash in Tibirkelunde, Denmark, see photo.

Mira Sanders, The Journey, 2009 (videostill)
ZATERDAG 19 OKTOBER | 16 UUR | MIJN DERDE LAND | FRANKENDAEL FOUNDATION, CLUB INTERBELLUM & WHITE RABBIT THEATER
"...Ik heb om aan dit noodlot te ontkomen,
Een derde land verzonnen in mijn hoofd,
Een land vertrouwd met leugens en fantomen..."
In de tentoonstelling Mijn Derde Land reizen we naar een land dat bestaat tussen verbeelding en werkelijkheid: een imaginaire bestemming als toevluchtsoord voor de hedendaagse mens. Vertrekpunt is het gedicht 'Contragewicht' van Gerrit Komrij.

Foto: Thomas Lenden
Nieuw-West Open, het programma dat 60 jaar Westelijke tuinsteden viert, in een reis van 60 weken door de publieke ruimte presenteert:
DIALOOG MET EEN BEELD II
een performance van Danielle van Vree
DE POORT VAN CONSTANT
een dwaling door de tijd langs zeven performers
zaterdag 21 september 18.00-20.00
donderdag 26 september 18.00-20.00
vrijdag 27 september 18.00-20.00
zaterdag 28 september 18.00-20.00
zondag 29 september 18.00-20.00

In June 2013 Anna Mikhailova premiered with her opera Constant Tranzit. She visited the foundation in December of the previous year in search of documentation en information about Constant, his New Babylon project and his contact with Debord.
Anna Mikhailova | Codarts Master Muziektheater
Sarah Creange and her colleagues discussing how to gow about moving this very vulnerable piece of art to its new home, The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
After months of deliberation the curators of the Rijksmuseum decided that Ruimtecircus (Spacecircus) from Constant's New Babylon project was indeed the piece they wished to add to the new 20th century wing.

Le criminel, 1987
Both these images are called Le Criminel, 1987 and supposedly signed by Constant but which of the two is an authentic work of art by Constant? This is one of the many authentication cases that the foundation is presented with each week.

Aernout Mik, Exhibition Architecture (After Constant’s Design for a Gypsy Camp), Call the Witness, Roma Pavilion, 2011, exterior detail, photo: Victor Nieuwenhuys
AERNOUT MIK (artist, the Netherlands)
Exhibition Architecture (After Constant’s Design for a Gypsy Camp)