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Research Logs, Essays, Conversations tagged with material culture

Artist Talk: Ibrahim Mahama

Artist Talk: Ibrahim Mahama

Conversations
Conversation with Amanda Pinatih and Rein Wolfs
January 28, 2026
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Action Reaction Abstraction: New Primary Education Program

Action Reaction Abstraction: New Primary Education Program

Research Logs
by Lisa Jacobs
February 28, 2024
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Fig. 6 . Details of the back of the Stedelijk rocking chair where now unused stitching holes can be seen.

A nineteenth-century metal rocking chair

MODERN — Van Gogh, Rietveld, Léger and others, Research Logs
by Ingeborg de Roode and Stedelijk conservators
September 27, 2023
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Fallen Leaves as a literary style and research methodology in the work of Vasily Rozanov

Fallen Leaves

Mortality as Matter, Rakurs, Research Logs
as a literary style and research methodology in the work of Vasily Rozanov by Katerina Sidorova
June 21, 2023
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Persuasions in Liminal Spaces

Persuasions in Liminal Spaces

Abstracting Parables, Essays
by Nafisa Rizvi
October 11, 2022
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Music, Painting, Intuition and Calculation: Sedje Hémon and the Stedelijk Museum

Music, Painting, Intuition, and Calculation

Abstracting Parables, Essays
Sedje Hémon and the Stedelijk Museum
October 4, 2022
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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

Abstracting Parables, Essays
by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
September 22, 2022
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How to Inspire Sustainable Practices

How to Inspire Sustainable Practices

It’s our F-ing Backyard, It’s our F-ing Backyard by Ab Stevels, Research Logs
by Ab Stevels
August 24, 2022
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Designing a material future

Designing a Material Future

It’s our F-ing Backyard, It’s our F-ing Backyard by Ab Stevels
by Ab Stevels
August 18, 2022
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In a get-together recorded as a podcast (with video) in the new collection presentation of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, renowned cultural theorist Mieke Bal took part in a conversation about interdisciplinary research on the basis of the concepts of narratology, migratory aesthetics, and politics versus the political.

Looking at Art through Cultural Analysis: Mieke Bal

Conversations, Here for Now, Then and There, Research Logs
by Britte Sloothaak
March 9, 2022
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Pablo Picasso giving a drawing lesson to his children Paloma and Claude, and two friends. Photograph by Rene Burri / Magnum.Rene Burri / Magnum.

Picasso and the Art of Children

Let Textiles Talk, Research Logs
by Amélie Martelle​
January 7, 2022
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The artists hand appears holding a blue, slightly transparent audio cassette tape. On the top of the tape on a white label, the work title, “WHAT WE PUT IN THE SKAFTHINI (MIXAPENAYANA)” appears written in all-caps in black marker.

Simnikiwe Buhlungu, What We Put in the Skafthini (Mixtapenyana), 2021

Sketches for the Future
by Danica Pinteric
December 2, 2021
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Sung Tieu, Song Notes For Factories, 2021 From Fiction to Knowledge

Sung Tieu, Song Notes For Factories, 2021

Sketches for the Future
by Fabienne Chiang
November 9, 2021
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Collector Culture of the Russian Avant-Garde

Collector Culture of the avant-garde from Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union

Rakurs
by Frank van Lamoen
October 21, 2021
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Serendipity

Serendipity

Let Textiles Talk, Research Logs
Log #3 by Amanda Pinatih
August 1, 2021
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Meeting the Collection

Let Textiles Talk, Research Logs
Log #1 by Amanda Pinatih
July 5, 2021
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The dream of a 1000 shipwrecks 01

In the artist’s words: The dream of a 1000 shipwrecks

Research Logs, Tomorrow is a different day
by Patricia Kaersenhout
July 1, 2021
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Journal Articles tagged with material culture

Modern Group Portraits in New York Exile

Modern Group Portraits in New York Exile: Community and Belonging in the Work of Arthur Kaufmann and Hermann Landshoff

Issue #09 - Modernism in Migration
By Burcu Dogramaci
November 3, 2019
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“My old Mother” – Therese Graf in New York: Exile, the Transatlantic Itinerary of a Photographic Portrait, and Strong History “from below”

Issue #09 - Modernism in Migration
By Eva-Maria Troelenberg
November 2, 2019
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Welkom Today: On Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Photography

Issue #08 - Towards a Museum of Mutuality
By Anne Ruygt
June 1, 2019
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The Iwalewahaus: Displaying Works of African Modernism

Issue #05 - Curating the Collection
By Nadine Siegert
March 5, 2017
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Looking at the One and Only: The Return of the Single-Work Show

Issue #05 - Curating the Collection
By Johanne Lamoureux, Mélanie Boucher and Marie Fraser
March 5, 2017
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Flattening Hierarchies of Display: The Liberating and Leveling Powers of Objects and Materials

Issue #05 - Curating the Collection
By Judith Spijksma and Ann-Sophie Lehmann
March 5, 2017
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Collecting Geographies

The Troubles with Temporality

Issue #03 - The Place of Performance
By Bojana Kunst
December 1, 2015
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Good (graphic) design

Issue #02 - Exhibition Histories
By Clemence Imbert
July 18, 2015
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Documenting the Marvelous: The Risks and Rewards of Relying on Installation Photographs in the Writing of Exhibition History

Issue #02 - Exhibition Histories
By Madeleine Kennedy
July 17, 2015
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