As one of the greatest pioneers of international conceptual art, Italian artist Piero Manzoni (1933-1963) maintained strong ties with the Netherlands. The unlocking of his intensive correspondence with Rotterdam gallery owner Hans Sonnenberg has revealed the extent of Manzoni's influence on the post-war avant-garde in the Netherlands.

During his short artistic career Piero Manzoni produced more than a thousand canvases, sculptures and other objects. He radically rejected the conventional cont...

Opera Village, a participatory art experiment by the late German multimedia artist Christoph Schlingensief, serves as a testing ground for a critical interrogation of Richard Wagner’s notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk. Sarah Hegenbart traces the path from Wagner’s introduction of the Gesamtkunstwerk in Bayreuth to Schlingensief’s attempt to charge the idea of the total artwork with new meaning by transposing it to the West African country Burkina Faso. Schlingensief developed Opera Village ...

Accountable Temporary Expedients is a practice that challenges the ability of dancers to attend to multiple stimuli at once and instigate situations which embrace confusion, doubt and uncertainty. This work stands in response to the notion that dance urges to emancipate. Baldini’s current critique sees dance as being "stuck, gooey, a victim of its own habit and, so in love with itself, it does not recognise its limitations. It is self-seduced, self-sufficient, and self-indulgent. Dance is n...

Explore the rich cultural tapestry and breathtaking landscapes of Myanmar with the "Myanmar - Grayscale Coloring Book." This captivating collection offers 48 single-sided grayscale illustrations, each one showcasing the unique beauty and diversity of Myanmar's people and scenery.

Each page is a window into the daily life and stunning environments of this Southeast Asian gem, featuring detailed portraits of local people, their traditional attire, and the picturesque landscapes that define Myan...

Step into a celestial realm with "Zodiac Queens Vol 1," a captivating grayscale coloring book that brings the ethereal beauty of zodiac goddesses to your fingertips. This exquisite collection features 48 single-sided illustrations, each one a majestic portrayal of a goddess representing the twelve zodiac signs. Crafted with breathtaking detail, each image is a tribute to the mystical qualities and unique characteristics of each astrological sign.

From the fierce and confident Aries to the gen...

"Christmas Chuckles Grayscale Coloring Book" brings a delightful blend of holiday cheer and lighthearted fun to your coloring experience. This engaging book features 51 single-sided grayscale coloring pages, each filled with unique and amusing Christmas-themed illustrations. Designed to tickle your funny bone while providing a relaxing coloring adventure, these pages capture the joyful and humorous spirit of the festive season.

The grayscale format of the illustrations adds an interesting lay...

Emo Verkerk (Amsterdam, 1955) has his feet firmly planted in the Dutch painting tradition. His work tends towards total anarchy and regularly balances on the edge of a cliff, sometimes almost going over the brink, but in the end everything always lands on its feet, exactly where you would want it to be.

His work is shamelessly convincing. In the paintings of Emo Verkerk each note takes an unexpected turn, like in improvisational jazz. When Verkerk paints his constructed reality, he takes it ...

A Masterpiece Examined.

Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers, which he completed in the southern French town of Arles in 1888 and 1889, are among his most famous paintings. In radiant shades of yellow, he created five large still lifes featuring vases of sunflowers, which now hang in museums all over the world. This book focuses on the version of Sunflowers in the Van Gogh Museum’s collection – a masterpiece that has been studied in recent years by an international team of more than thirty sc...

Solidarity has re-entered the global zeitgeist with resounding force in the last decade, driving new thinking to counter the systemic failures and abuses of our society. The Art and Solidarity Reader considers the agency artists, collectives, and art institutions have in building the radical visions of care and solidarity needed to transform the conditions of our collective existence.

Presenting new and historical material, the Reader narrates various micro-histories of artistic solidarity gl...