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Z-Files: Erik van Lieshout
The 5th edition of Z-Files is organized jointly by SIR and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, and will take place on the 3rd of October. The evening will revolve around Erik van Lieshout,…
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Eerbetoon aan een Avenue website
Coolsingel is vast, eclectic, chaotic, and full of history. The avenue is a place where the memories of many events are stored, masterpieces of international art can be seen, and hundreds of ornaments from the…
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Coop Himmelb(l)au: Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition in Shenzen
The Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition (MOCAPE), part of the master plan for Shenzhen’s new urban center, the Futian Cultural District, establishes itself as a new attraction in Shenzhen’s fast growing urban fabric.
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Tribute To An Avenue
Every night from 8 January to 9 February 2014, Rotterdam’s Coolsingel is transformed into an outdoor cinema. On the walls and in the windows of shops and empty buildings, short films by internationally renowned video…
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
End of October 2012, the documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry was released on DVD in the Netherlands and Belgium. The film, a world-wide hit, is about the Chinese artist, human rights activist and critic on…
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Lebbeus Woods deceased
On 30 October 2012 American architect and artist Lebbeus Woods passed away at the age of 72. His experimental designs were often too whimiscal to realize. Lebbeus Woods, born in 1940 in Lansing, Michigan…
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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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Wrapping up of Moore
The ‘wrapping up’ of Henry Moore’s Wall Relief No. 1 in Rotterdam’s city centre has started. If everything will go according to plan, the relief will be taken off it’s place on the 20th…
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Carasso’s De Boeg cleaned
The monument De Boeg van Carasso in Rotterdam is being cleaned (14 November 2012).
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Commission purchased by Stedelijk
Commission van Erik van Lieshout was purchased by the Stedelijke Museum Amsterdam.
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Moore relocated
Today, Wall Relief No. 1 by Henry Moore has been relocated. Watch our image report.
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Lisa de Kooning passed away
Johanna Liesbeth de Kooning, the philanthropist and sculptor who helped to guide her father Willem de Kooning’s art career in the last years of his life and to preserve his legacy after his death…
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It’s Never Too Late to Say Sorry: diaries of a performer
Ever since the beginning – 28 mei 2010 – Wim Konings is performer for Elmgreen & Dragset’s work on the Coolsingel It’s Never Too Late to Say Sorry. Every day at noon exactly…
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Richard Artschwager dies at age of 89
On February 9th, Richard Artschwager died at the age of 89. Artschwager died just days after his second Whitney Museum retrospective “Richard Artschwager!” ended. Artschwagers work has been the subject of…
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