All publications from the category Essays

Exhibition view General Idea, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2023. Photo: Peter Tijhuis. © Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Curation and the Visitor Experience

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by Tom Polleau
Figure 3. Remy Jungerman, Bakru, 2007, wood, textile, paper, plastic and plant materials, 220 × 300 × 38 cm. Collection Wereldmuseum. © Remy Jungerman. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Wording Identities

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by Olombi Bois
Keeping Track of Time

Keeping Track of Time

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by India Jeffes
Comparing Two Exhibitions on 19th-Century Design at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

MODERN?

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by Ginger van den Akker.
Drawing Faces (in Terror Times): An Introduction

Drawing Faces (in Terror Times): An Introduction

by Edwin Nasr
The Infinity Universe. Oil on canvas.

Through the Roar of Cosmic Cataclysms

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by Tatiana Kochubinska and Tetiana Zhmurko
No White in Sight

No White in Sight

by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei
Bakhyt Bubikanova

Bakhyt Bubikanova

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by Yuliya Sorokina
Fig. 5. Alexis Blake, 'rock to jolt [ ] stagger to ash', 2021. Performance, exhibition space with architectural interventions, dim lighting, fragrance, tabloid publication. Prix de Rome 2021. Photo: Daniel Nicolas.

From Image to Smell

The Role of the Olfactory Sense in Contemporary Art Experience - by Jonas van Kappel
Announcement without Resolution: On Anne Imhof's YOUTH

Announcement without Resolution: On Anne Imhof’s YOUTH

by Vincent van Velsen
Fig. 3: Graphic interpretation by Print the Future of Moringa oleifera, a plant used for its immune qualities and its ability to protect against evil when worn as an amulet. Original image courtesy of the author. Photo: Dito Yuwono.

On Re-enchantment and Cosmic Hopes

by Mira Asriningtyas
Yvette Mutumba during the "10 Years Bathtub: Open for the Open" lecture series. 24 September 2022. Photo: Ernst van Deursen.

In Museums We Trust

by Yvette Mutumba
Architecture as Theater

Architecture as Theater

by Infraestudio
Persuasions in Liminal Spaces

Persuasions in Liminal Spaces

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by Nafisa Rizvi
Music, Painting, Intuition and Calculation: Sedje Hémon and the Stedelijk Museum

Music, Painting, Intuition, and Calculation

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Sedje Hémon and the Stedelijk Museum
ABDIAS DO NASCIMENTO Pink Mulatto Woman: A Study for Oshun. Acrylic on canvas, 102 x 153 cm. Middletown, 1970 © IPEAFRO

Abdias do Nascimento: Being an Event of Love

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by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Looking Twice: The Presence of Absence in Die Brücke Art Histories

Looking Twice: The Presence of Absence in Die Brücke Art Histories

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A Critical Reflection on the exhibition "Kirchner and Nolde: Expressionism. Colonialism." by Lisa Hilli
How Textiles Talk and What They Have to Say. A Curatorial Introduction to the Exhibition Let Textiles Talk by Amanda Pinatih.

How Textiles Talk and What They Have to Say

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Essay by Amanda Pinatih
Fig. 2. Bruce Nauman - Seven Figures

Straight Innocence

Essay by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei