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Off to alexandria

Hello Eindhoven, Remco and I are on the way to Alexandria. We will meet with the middle east group except Amirali, for whom we could not get a visa given Iran-Egypt relations. This is the fourth...

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On the plane

Some thoughts about plug in xl. Talking to chris recently and thinking about the way we communicate the process of 15 months, I think we need to understand the total exhibition as slow move from the...

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Why we have to ask questions and keep annoying people

Nice (edited) quote from Brian Holmes: “What we really need is to spend a lot more time asking each other whether our cultural fictions – our architecture and images, our hierarchies and ambitions and...

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Cairo vliegveld

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On the road to Alexandria

Two photos from the journey by car to Alexandrian Contemporary Art Forum (ACAF) where the meetings will take place. See http://www.acafspace.org

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Detroit and Support

In Detroit, or more precisely Hamtramck a city state within the larger conurbation. The last two days were spent thinking around and about the idea of buying a property or investing in some appropriate...

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Obama and civic Detroit

As a north-western European, there seems an obvious failure of political leadership at the civic level, with little thought in city hall as to how Detroit might be reimagined if it is not a car...

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After ljubljana

Four of us – Christiane, Dianne, Steven and I have been at the Next Step conference organized by Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana throughout the weekend. It was an excellent, revealing and fascinating...

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More ljubljana

So, a little more on the conference. It was 1,5 days of discussion about modern and contemporary art museums and their future policies. It included participants from three major state museums in...

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A few thoughts after venice

Returning today to Eindhoven, I chanced upon Yuko Hasagawa from Tokyo and Victoria Lu from Shanghai MoCA in the airport. We got talking and Victoria spoke about a plan to work in public spaces across...

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Paris, Madrid and Istanbul, from “elles” to Former West to Sweet Sixties

Just returned from a small marathon of meetings and museum visits to see some permanent collections. First up was Daniel Buren to discuss his wonderful project where the museum guards wear striped...

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L’internationale

L’Internationale is a new, long-term collaboration between four European museums and archives. The intention of this transinstitutional organisation is to use the collections and archives of the...

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What is it with capitalism?

A fascinating and enjoyable trip to west Germany to meet people from the world of commerce a few days ago. I have to admit that I rarely (if ever) meet people outside the art world. Is that terrible?...

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A local newspaper

Beneden is a foto van een pagina van de nieuwe catalogus van MoMA, New York. Leuk dat ze zo duidelijk de waarde van de Volkskrant beoordelen…zeer amerikaans, maar in dit geval wel niet zo oneerlijk…

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More on that capitalism story

I seem to have got rather stuck on the capitalism trip over my brief holidays…but anyway, here is an extract from a Guardian blog where I tried to answer Evil Tory’s quite reasonable questions. As it...

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Play Van Abbe

By Charles Esche Here is a text, not yet published, that I hope gives a little background into the thinking behind the project Why Play? Why Van Abbe? “it’s all about the thing itself”, he said in...

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A lady of a certain age

By Charles Esche I’m on a plane flying to Alicante. God knows why really, it is not necessary for much that I cherish but I said yes once to some invitation and here I am, not wanting to think about it...

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Genk, or after the factory comes a factory

I was recently in Genk, Belgium – about 100 km from Eindhoven. The small city of 65.000 people was founded to serve three deep shaft coal mines. The city itself was divided into three sections...

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A recent interview with Zdenka about museums and collections in general

Introduction This interview took place on the 19th April 2011, the day after the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Vanabbemuseum in Eindhoven between:- Charles Esche Director of the...

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Venice 2011 – a short comment

Just back from Venice and the Biennale….the most interesting general tendency to me was retrospection and recuperation of the past. From Tintoretto in the International show to Monastyrski, Boltanski,...

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