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Restoration of ‘the Gabo’ to be completed March 2018
On the 21st of July (2017), the city council of Rotterdam granted an official permission to IEF Capital, for the restoration and renovation of the sculpture by Naum Gabo at the Coolsingel. IEF Capital, the…
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Seven Tears by Susan Philipsz to be unveiled on 23d of March
Z-Files, Art and the City #18: lecture, interview and unveiling of Seven Tears (2017) by Susan Philipsz Location of Z-Files: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Location of unveiling: Willemsplein, Rotterdam Date: Thursday 23 March,…
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Rotterdam Cultural Histories #2 by Bik Van der Pol
This presentation and accompanying newspaper document Bik Van der Pol’s research into George Rickey’s kinetic sculpture Two Rectangles Vertical Gyratory (1971), and its history. This second edition of Rotterdam Cultural Histories…
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Tulkus 1880 to 2018 by Paola Pivi
SIR artist Paola Pivi, who worked on Grrr Jamming Squeak on the Coolsingel for over a year is coming to Rotterdam again. Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art…
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Press release for PUBLIEK around the City Hall, 2007
The work ‘Don’t Miss a Sec’ by Monica Bonvicini (1965) is sure to amaze. Positioned next to the steps of the City Hall, beneath the mayor’s window, the sculpture seems to be…
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July 2008: Decision Mayor and Elderman: Santa Claus on his way to public space
Santaclaus, loved and hated, will be placed in the heart of the city, at the Eendrachtsplein. Many parties wish to provide either a temporary or permanent home…
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28 november: Santa Claus finds a Permanent New Home
After many years at the centre of thorny debate, Santa Claus, the renowned sculpture by Paul McCarthy, is being relocated to a definitive new home on the Eendrachtsplein, having spent three years in…
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Turner Prize 2011 awarded to Martin Boyce
The Turner Prize, Britain’s most famous award for visual arts, was awarded to the Scottish artist Martin Boyce (44). The price is 25,000 pounds (29,000 euros). The judges praised his “opening up of a new…
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