Jules de Balincourt

@ The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 
Boys Club, 2011, Oil on panel

Jules de Balincourt was born in Paris in 1972 and moved to the United States with his family in the early 1980s. After studying at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, where he developed an interest in the art of ceramics, which he practised for some time, he settled in New York, completing a master's degree at the city's Hunter College in 2005. He lives and works in Brooklyn, and is one of its art scene's main driving forces. Dubbed "Starr Space," his Starr Street studio in the Bushwick district serves as a community centre, performance and concert space, as well as an art gallery for neighbourhood artists. LINK julesdebalincourt

Mondrian Cake

As a lover of modern art, Mondrian inspired creative projects, and unusual cookbooks, I was instantly enamored with Modern Art Desserts: Recipes for Cakes, Cookies, Confections, and Frozen Treats Based on Iconic Works of Art by Caitlin Freeman, pastry chef at the Blue Bottle café at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s, which she roams for inspiration, then translates the artwork into edible masterpieces. From Matisse parfait to Mondrian cake to Frida wedding cookies to Fuller hot chocolate, the recipes hit the spot for art-lovers and foodies alike, adding an extra layer of whimsical delight to the art of dessert. LINK modernartdesserts

Norbert Schwontkowski

In his drawings and paintings, Norbert Schwontkowski does not explore the path to abstract visualization and instead has discernible objects and figures emerge from the foundation to the images he creates. He records the world and the seemingly vacuous side to everyday life in fragmentary excerpts, and on even the smallest of canvases proves to be a great storyteller. The focus is on human weaknesses and rashness, human inadequacies and the paralysis of existence, but often he also addresses the small moments of movements and happiness. Many of his images are defined by melancholy and yearning, and yet he forever undermines this with humor, such as arises first and foremost from the interaction of pictorial idea and work title. Alongside oil, crayon, water and pigment, Schwontkowski often also adds metal oxides to his pictures, something that can lead to unforeseen changes to the color. In a wet-in-wet process, initially many layers of color and paint are superimposed, and thus a kind of horizontal foundation is laid. The use of metal oxides resembles photographic and film processes in terms of the art’s sensitivity to light. Part of the painting process is left to chemistry, which cannot be controlled, and thus to chance. Schwontkowski makes deliberate use of these arbitrary and surprising effects. The images continue to morph, changing their colors with each day anew. The result are at times impasto, at times fluid surfaces, often shimmering with a vibrancy in a sea of colors associated with the season from November to February. LINK Norbert Schwontkowski

Opening of Museo Jumex

Mexico City

Mexico City is blessed with a number of great contemporary art museums; Museo Tamayo, whether or not it ever expands, in Chapultepec Park; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) on the campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in the south; smaller institutions like Museo Experimental El Eco on Reforma and the non-profit Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (SAPS) in Polanco-however, as a civic point of interest and a feat of twenty-first century architectural showmanship, it's hard to rival this corner of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, where the Museo Jumex now sits opposite Carlos Slim's eccentrically hubristic Museo Soumaya, which opened in 2011. Indeed, probably the best sight provided by Lopez's new museum this weekend was the picture of the Soumaya, in all its tiled mushroom cloud grandiosity, framed by the outlook of the Jumex's first floor terrace, where the public programs were held (a roundtable on the role of the private museum, a talk between Hans Ulrich Obrist and the architect, and a performative lunch). The city block is like a kernel of an Arabian upstart in the New World: two of the most moneyed private museums anywhere, sprouted beside one another on a commercial thoroughfare en route to becoming a miracle mile. LINK Museo Jumex

Yto Barrada

Cinematheque Tangier 
@ Walker Art Center

As a "crossroads of civilizations," Tangier has long captured the imagination of the West, and been romanticized and immortalized in film and literature. Having grown up around those myths, artist Yto Barrada has been interested in the material history and visual culture of her hometown, particularly its rich cinematic past. She has developed an artistic practice that combines documentary strategies with a metaphoric approach to imagery, resulting in a poetic body of work recognized for its emblematic power.
 LINK walker art center

Joe Rilla

Ostwest

Im Jahre 1997 gründete Joe Rilla zusammen mit den Hip-Hop-Musikern Dave Q und MC Poise die Formation Da Mash. Die Gruppe veröffentlichte zusammen mit der PDM Posse ein Album, welches unter dem Titel Plus & Minus erschien. Wobei die Vinylplatte auf der A Seite der PDM Posse und auf der B Seite Da Mash zugeteilt ist. Joe Rilla tourte in dieser Zeit mit der Sängerin Joy Denalane und dem Rapper MC Poise als Family Affair quer durch Europa. Rillas Debütalbum Zeitgeist erschien 1998. Es folgte 1999 die Bildung der Hip-Hop-Formation Analphabeten, welche ein Zusammenschluss aus den Hip-Hop-Musikern DJ Danetic, SMC, Joe Rilla und DJ N.Y.C.O. war. Sie veröffentlichten die EP Waz Louz über das Label Raid Records und die Alben … Punkt! und 1Deutige 2Deutigkeiten über das Label Upgrade LINK Joe Rilla

Isabelle Beernaert

Red, Yellow & Blue

Red, Yellow &  Blue is the third full-length theater production of Isabelle Beernaert who tours along the Dutch and Belgian theaters. Isabelle has another great performance choreographed especially for you, with stories and emotions that can not then you completely carried away and let it live. Else in your own way For this, an impressive cast of dancers Isabelle brought together, known from So You Think You Can Dance and The Ultimate Dance Battle ... LINK Isabelle Beernaert

Jimmy Nelson

Before they Pass Away

From 1997 onwards Jimmy began to successfully undertake commercial advertising assignments for many of the world’s leading brands. At the same time he started accumulating images of remote and unique cultures photographed with a traditional 50  year  old plate camera. Many awards followed. When he started to successfully and internationally exhibit and sell these images, this created the subsequent momentum and enthusiasm for the initiation of Before they Pass Away. LINK Jimmy Nelson

‪Solomon Burke‬

‪None Of Us Are Free‬

Solomon Burke was an American recording artist and vocalist, who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s and a "key transitional figure in the development of soul music from rhythm and blues. He had a string of hits including "Cry to Me", "If You Need Me", "Got to Get You Off My Mind", "Down in the Valley" and "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love". Burke was referred to as "King Solomon", the "King of Rock 'n' Soul", "Bishop of Soul" and the "Muhammad Ali of soul". Due to Burke's minimal chart success in comparison to other soul music greats such as James Brown, Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding, Burke is often described as the genre's "most unfairly overlooked singer" of its golden age. Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler once referred to Burke as "the greatest male soul singer of all time".
LINK ‪Solomon Burke‬

L.I.S.A. Project

Beau Stanton in Little Italy 
Photo: by Rey Rosa

The L.I.S.A. Project (Little Italy Street Art) was established by Wayne Rada & Ralph Tramontana President of the Little Italy Merchants Association and is under creative direction of Wayne Rada, and RJ Rushmore from his famed website vandalog.com The mission is to bring a diverse group of street artists together in the Little Italy area of downtown on historic Mulberry Street, between Broome and Canal to create Manhattan's only mural district. To encourage New Yorkers, art fans and tourists alike to visit or revisit Little Italy to view and photograph the art work. LINK lisaproject

New (Nieuw)

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The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) is more than a museum. It is an archive, museum, library and cultural podium all in one. The NAI holds important archives and collections of Dutch architects from after 1800 and makes them accessible to the public. The NAI is part of The New Institute. Read more... LINK nai

"Bergensbanen"

NRK. A 7 hour long travel (minute by minute) 
from Bergen to Oslo by train (Norway)

Bergensbanen is 100 years in 2009, and the documentary was a wild idea from NRK staff that came through, and was, surprisingly, a big success.
 Millions of Norwegians have watched "Bergensbanen" on NRK2. The longest documentary ever? At least the longest NRK has made, almost 7 1/2 hours, showing every minute of the scenic train ride between Bergen on the Norwegian west coast, crossing the mountains to the capital of Oslo. LINK NRK

Ghetto Biennale 2013

622 Blvd Jean-Jacques Dessalines

Port-au-Prince
 Haiti

The 3rd Ghetto Biennale 2013 will take place from 26th November until the 16th December 2013. All works must be made and exhibited in Haiti. Artists will be invited to pass one to three weeks in Haiti before presenting their work in the neighbourhood to an audience of local people, Port au Prince neighbourhood communities, arts collectives and arts organisations. The 3rd Ghetto Biennale will be co-curated by Andre Eugene, David Frohnapfel, Leah Gordon and Celeur Jean Herard. LINK Ghetto Biennale

Color

New stamp from PostNL

"We have deliberately chosen a different color" a spokeswoman said Friday, but they stressed that this choice is made ​​before the discussion of recent weeks erupted. Obviously afraid to tell you that the choice is made ​​for fear of criticism and threats the company. Rather it gives business in a handful of troublemakers who grant their foundations should allow to set. Supposedly an important social point raised safely From survey and found that Dutch want to keep as it is, so with Zwarte Piet there. LINK NOS (Dutch)

Hamid El Kanbouhi

@ Galerie van de Weghe 

LINK Galerie van de Weghe

Edward Burtynsky

Photographs: The Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto.

The Royal Alexandra Theatre: A Celebration of 100 Years, is as much a history of a famous building as it is an account of a century of Toronto’s cultural development. When Cawthra “the boy millionaire” Mulock opened his Royal Alexandra in 1907, Toronto had a population of less than half a million and was just the second largest city in Canada; Brockhouse’s meticulously research tells the story of how a city and its most famous stage grew up together. Throughout, the book is lavishly illustrated with archival photographs and candid shots. Its crowning glory, though, is a new commissioned photo essay by Edward Burtynsky, which captures the theatre in its stately glory and the backstage area in its charming squalor. LINK walrusmagazine
LINK edward burtynsky

Helen Cann

Moon Map

An annotated map of the moon documenting layers of knowledge about the moon from the earliest moon drawings in caves to Gallileo’s telescope to traditional folklore to the moon landings and further. Completed in ink on mountboard. I am interested in how maps can explore layers of history and knowledge and not just a physical location. LINK Helen Cann

Biscuit Camera

The cutest digital cameras around come from the incredible imagination of the FUUVI company in Japan. The team that brought you the orginal biscuit camera have done it again! More powerful, faster and twice as cute. Three flavors are fresh from the oven!
Rechargeable battery, Micro SD card memory and an easy fit into any pocket provide endless toy camera fun. LINK biscuit camera

Zwarte Pieten (of is de schoorsteen grijs, geel of blauw?)

LINK DPhoto: zwarte pieten

Mira Schendel

@ Tate Modern

Tate Modern is staging the first ever international, full-scale survey of the work of Mira Schendel (1919 - 1988) until 19 January 2014. Schendel is one of Latin America's most important and prolific post-war artists. Alongside her contemporaries Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica, Schendel reinvented the language of European Modernism in Brazil. The show exemplifies how Tate is continuing to rethink and re-present the history of modern and contemporary art by showing artists who established their careers outside Europe and the USA.
The exhibition brings together over 300 paintings, drawings and sculptures from across her entire career, many of which have never been exhibited before. Highlights include her Droguinhas (Little Nothings) 1965 - 6, soft sculptures of knotted rice paper in the form of malleable nets, originally exhibited in London (Signals Gallery, 1966); and the Graphic Objects 1967 - 8, a group of works that explore language and poetry and were first shown at the 1968 Venice Biennale. LINK tate

Todor Vardjiev

Prof. Todor Vardjiev born on January 16 1943 in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. 1965 - 1966 National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria. 1966 - 1967 Herder Institut, Leipzig, Germany. 1967 - 1972 MA in the book design and graphic design, under Professor Albert Kapr, Ph.D., and Professor Walter Schiller, Hochschule fuer Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany. 1994 Creative specialization at Cite International des Arts, Paris. LINK artmajeur

Юрий Луначарский (Yuri Lunacharsky)

JUXTAPOSED a retrospective exhibition on the work of the Russian artist Yuri Lunacharsky, as reflected in the eyes of the Dutch artists Topp & Dubio.
04.10 - 21.10  2013, 19:00 - 00:00

Lunacharsky is a Kaliningrad born sculptural artist who died in 2008 at the age of 30 without ever having exhibited his work. In a way, Topp & Dubio continue Lunacharsky's art practice by handling and rearranging his works and preparing it to be shown publically without having any knowledge of Lunacharsky's intentions or knowing how to do this properly. Continuously, Topp & Dubio started a never ending dialogue with Lunacharsky by creating project based works that respond to the major themes in Lunacharsky's artworks: space, time, energy, history and human existence. By doing so, The exhibition shows both of their work in retrospective. Side by side or face to face. Or both.  

В рамках образовательной программы к выставке "Бок о бок: 
Topp & Dubio против  Юрий Луначарский", которая до 20 октября проходит в выставочном зале Балтийского филиала Государственного центра современного искусства, состоялись музейные занятия, вдохновленные художественным "космосом"  Юрий Луначарский. Школьники не только познакомились с концепцией выставки, различными формами презентации современного искусства, но и провели ассоциативные мосты между работами голландского дуэта и калининградского художника, а также выразили свое мнение относительно выставки в виде принтов на футболках. Выставка проходит до 21 октября по адресу: Литовский Вал, 38, подъезд 6, 4 этаж. Вход свободный. Подробнее о выставке и расписании публичных экскурсий читайте на сайте БФ ГЦСИ. 
LINK ncca
LINK jegensentevens 
LINK topp&dubio

Post Sofia: Jules Pascin

From Vidin to Paris exhibition 
@ Sofia City Art Gallery

Jules Pascin, was born on March 31 1885 in Bulgaria’s Danubian city of Vidin. In 1892, his family moved to Bucharest. Pascin graduated from high school in Vienna. Between 1902 and 1905 he received training at the art academies in Vienna, Budapest, Munich and Berlin. He contributed to the “Simplicissimus“ magazine published in Munich. In 1905, he moved to Paris, where he met his future wife, Hermine David. In 1907, he organized his first solo exhibition at Paul Cassirer’s gallery in Berlin. In 1914 he left for New York, where he lived until 1920. He travelled to the Southern states and Cuba. Then he went back to Paris, where he lived until his death in 1930. 

Peintre emblématique de l’Ecole de Paris, Jules Pascin, né à Vidin en Bulgarie en 1885, symbolise à lui seul l’histoire culturelle de l’Europe, la circulation des idées et des talents. Après une expérience allemande formatrice et réussie (Munich, Berlin), il choisit Paris et devient célèbre, voyage puis s’installe définitivement à Paris où il se suicide dans son atelier en 1930, persuadé d’avoir atteint la limite de sa créativité artistique. Initiée par l’ambassade de France en Bulgarie et organisée par l’Institut français en partenariat avec la Galerie municipale, l’exposition rassemble 115 œuvres issues de collections privées, dont certaines n’ont jamais été exposées au grand public. Les œuvres proviennent de Paris, Londres, Tel-Aviv, Luxembourg et Oslo. 

Емблематичен художник от Парижката школа, Жул Паскин е роден във Видин в България през 1885г. След като се обучава сериозно и успешно в Германия (Мюнхен, Берлин), той избира Париж и се прочува, пътува, след което се установява окончателно в Париж, където се самоубива в ателието си през 1930г, убеден, че е достигнал границите на своята творческа креативност. Последната изложба на Жул Паскин в България е била организирана през 1975г. В Националната галерия за чуждестранно изкуство в София. Изложбата, озаглавена „Жул Паскин, от Видин до Париж“ се организира в партньорство със Софийска градска художествена галерия, чийто главен уредник, Мария Василева, е посветила докторска дисертация на този, който наричат ‘’Принцът от Монпарнас“. LINK schg

Post Sofia: Limited Protesters Today

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While some people in Bulgaria joined the protests against both governments, and while there were small amounts of protesters who were out on the streets throughout the spring of 2013 and effectively "linked" the two series of protests, the reasons that sparked off the two waves were different. 

The winter protests began due to high electricity prices and morphed into anti-GERB protests, while the summer anti-BSP/MRF protests were sparked by the election of media magnate Delyan Peevski to head the national security service. 

Many of the people who participated in both waves of protests are unhappy with the oligarchic model of governance that they claim has taken hold in Bulgaria, which leads to monopolies or near-monopolies in many spheres, such as energy (central to the winter protests), banking and media (central to the summer protests). These, in turn, are perceived as having a strong influence on the nation's political scene. LINK Protest Bulgaria

Post Sofia: Музей на социалистическото изкуство (Museum of Socialist Art)

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Музеят на социалистическото изкуство е музей в София, филиал на Националната художествена галерия, открит на 19 септември 2011 г. Това е първата музейна институция в България, предназначена да събира, опазва и представя образци на българското изкуство, създадени през периода 1944 - 1989 г., тематично свързани с епохата на социализма. 

The Museum of Socialist Art in Sofia is a museum, a branch of the National Art Gallery, opened on September 19, 2011 This is the first museum institution in Bulgaria, designed to collect, preserve and present examples of Bulgarian art, created in the period 1944 - 1989, the thematically related to the era of socialism. LINK Wikimedia (Bulgarian)

Post Sofia: Stoyan Sertev

An Epoch in Black & and White 
@ National Museum of Bulgarian visual Arts 
10 October - 10 November 2013
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Stoyan Sertev was born in Nova Zagora. He had played the violin since his childhood and at the age of about 20 he left for Sofia, where he made his living by playing in restaurant bands and by recording sound for silent films in cinema halls. Due to the lack of money he could not graduate from the Musical Academy but he had free lessons with Hristo Petkov, the father of the conductor Dobrin Petkov. In the musical milieus the name of Stoyan Sertev is connected with the National Opera orchestra and with the rich artistic history of the famous in the near past “Lechev” and “Avramov” quartets, where he played second violin. In his free time he was involved in photography - a passion of his since his adolescence, when he made his own camera out of a tin with a hole drilled in it, instead of lens. He made his first attempts, collected in an album, following German recipes for toning photographs. His huge archive has kept hundreds of frames from 1939 till the end of his life. He mainly shot works of art and their creators, architectural projects, theatrical and opera performances. 
LINK National Art Gallery

Eleanor Antin

"Selves", September 4 - December 7, 2013 
@ Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery 
Image: Eleanor Antin, The Two Eleanors, 1973. Private Collection.

Eleanor Antin, born in New York City in 1935, is an influential artist and writer. A pioneer of performance, photography, film, video, installation and Conceptual art, her humorous and often tragic works are grounded in narratives that engage history, identity and feminism. This exhibition will, for the first time, focus on the videos, photographic series, drawings and installations that express the "selves" she created and embodied between 1972 and 1991. LINK columbia edu

Tomorrow last day Exhibition Grensland @ Arnhem

Curated by Lisa Weeda 
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LINK Grensland

Volkspaleis film project The Lost

Reinold Reinolds, Kees ’t Hart, Wim Noordhoek, 
Nieuw Amsterdams Peil & Others

The Volkspaleis is a multidisciplinary event where West will show among other things the magnificent, monumental film project The Lost by the internationally renowned American artist Reynold Reynolds. The turbine hall is perfectly suited to show the film consisting of seven screens averaging a width of 8 metres. The project is based on rediscovered film footage from the thirties, a period of severe economic crisis. The film is about the life of a young writer who lives in a Berlin hotel together with other performers, dancers and musicians. 
At the time the original film couldn’t be completed due to the upcoming Nazi regime. LINK West

Katsumi Hayakawa

Katsumi Hayakawa, born 1970, constructs tri-dimensional worlds made of paper. His works are abstract representations of our de-individualised cities, in which we live and work but do not manage to establish relationships. The buidlings of our cities are the containers and décor of the “absence of existence, the absence of nothingness and the absence of the absence of absence”. LINK Katsumi Hayakawa