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A Tribute to Oscar Wilde in the Prison Where He Was Incarcerated The art organization Artangel has invited visual artists, writers, and performers to respond to Reading Gaol's most famous inmate, Oscar Wilde.

How fascinating!

The Belgian Town Where the Mentally Ill Are Part of the Community - Hyperallergic The treatment of mental illness has often involved removing patients from society and placing them in their own institutions.

Heel fijn materiaal, wat een werk heeft hierin gezeten!

10 moma exhibitions we want to time travel to | read | i-D We looked through 90 years of MoMA exhibitions to share the shows we wish we could have seen in real life, from 40s fashion to Yayoi Kusama’s macaroni couches.

DATE PALM KILLING FIELDS
“Iraq was once the leading date producer in the world. After the petrol boom of the 1950s, oil soon replaced agriculture in the Iraqi economy,” Atta Sabri explains. “Iraq and its inhabitants have a deep and ancient relationship with date palm trees that we must preserve. Images of palm trees appear in Mesopotamian cylinder seals. To this day people cultivate the trees for their dates, and use their wood in traditional craft work. They rely on these trees to lie in the shade, and keep the cities cool in the summer,” he says.

https://ruyafoundation.org/en/2016/08/defining-homeland/

ECHO ECHO
In Olafur Eliassons 'Echo House' zwaait niet alleen de dirigent de scepter, het publiek wordt uitgedaagd van zich te laten horen en zo het muziekstuk tot leven te brengen.

Il Tempo Del Postino Il Tempo Del Postino, a timepiece, an opera, a group exhibition. Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno. Directed by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno, Anri Sala, Rirkrit Tiravanija

Lucia Monge: "This is about lending our mobility to plants so that they can benefit from the speed and scale that draws people’s attention. In return; we may momentarily borrow some of their slowness."

5 Questions with Lucia Monge - ELEPHANT

Recommended by Wallpaper* magazine.

Flying colours: Huis Marseille launch a major Stephen Shore retrospective | Art | Wallpaper*... In 1970, a portrait of Andy Warhol brought Stephen Shore to the Netherlands when the photograph was chosen for a group show at The Hague's Municipal Museum. Today, Shore’s name is hugely influential in the contemporary history of photography and he h...

Raak up close and personal met enkele van de topkunstwerken uit Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, dankzij Google Art Camera.

Google made an insanely high-res camera to preserve great works of art In its first five years, the Google Cultural Institute scanned and archived 200 works of art in super-high-resolution gigapixel images. Now in just the past few months, it has managed to scan a...

Klare taal in het Rijksmuseum: "niemand is erbij gebaat als een smurf te worden aangesproken". Een nieuwe blogpost op ctrlartdelete.nl.

WAT WERKT

I totally agree with her.

Rachel Kushner: Where I Write “I hear these stories from friends about how they can travel the world and write anywhere, as long as they have a little desk and a blank wall in front of them. I don't think I’m one of those people.” Watch novelist Rachel Kushner on writing at home.

INTERESTING READING MATERIAL
"Indeed, the dramatic rise in repatriation claims stems from a regressive shift away from future orientated demands for political equality and material improvements, towards more cultural and backward-looking concerns."

Obsessing about past ‘wrongs’ is to miss the power of culture | Tiffany Jenkins Activists demanding the return of artefacts legitimately bought by collectors, often during colonialism, choose to view past people as akin to children – unable to have offered consent

KUSAMA : Een heftig leven, maar met ontelbaar veel hallucinerend goede werken als resultaat.

Yayoi Kusama: Self Obliteration Japan’s Polka-Dot Pioneer on a Life at the Mercy of Her Art