Stedelijk commissions new work from Alicia Frankovich

The Stedelijk Museum has commissioned a new performance work from Alicia Frankovich. Titled Atlas of the Living World the perfornmances take place at the Stedelijk on 1 and 2 September 2017. Read more...

The jury is out on the Stedelijk's new 'bathtub' extension

Dubbed the bathtub, the new Stedelijk Museum extension is attracting mixed reviews. While there is much to like inside, the extension and the way it relates to the museumplein is drawing flak. Los Angeles Times architecture critc Christopher Hawthorne describes it as as "an overscaled monument flagrantly aloof from its surroundings." He also says it's a reminder of how slow architecture can be. "The $159 million extension is the architectural personification of of boom-time thinking. But it is making its debut in a chastened and uncertain Europe." Read more...

Image: the Stadelijk Museum's new extension designed by Dutch architect Mels Crouwel

de Appel and the Stedelijk present a conference on exhibiting contemporary performance

Staged by de Appel arts centre and the Stedelijk Museum, a little less conversation will question how contemporary performance is exhibited. The conference follows previous enquiries into contemporary performance organised by the de Appel arts centre, including the symposium The Manifiold (after) lives of performance (2009 and 2010), which scrutinised the different ways performance is documented and collected.
Image: Marina Abramovic, The Artist is Present exhibition, MoMA 2010