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News & links from Metropolis M & co.

Tate Modern stages art festival for tenth anniversary celebrations and has invited 50 independent art spaces and collectives, from Shanghai to Prague, to create unique projects. (JV)

Name that painting. Have art historical references become the new brand-name-dropping? (video) (JV)

Foster. Create. Develop. Diversify…
Museum leaders need real plans, not just buzzwords. (JV)

Win, or make, your own Tracey Emin quilt. London's V&A Museum presents step-by-step guide for DIY Emin quilt to promote new exhibition. (JV)

Gladstone Gallery and the Fondazione Alighiero e Boetti, working in close association with the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, are pleased to announce the first ever retrospective entirely dedicated to Alighieri e Boetti’s Mappa series. (DR)

Highlights From The Independent, one of the alternative Art Fairs in New York. (DR)

The Best, The Worst and The Zoo at The Armory. (DR)

Tate Press Release: Ai Weiwei to undertake next commission in The Unilever Series (DR)

Institute of Contemporary Arts hit by staff turmoil. Director of exhibitions Mark Sladen likely to quit after clash with Alan Yentob and demand that director Ekow Eshun resign. The Guardian sums up the facts and asks: 'The ICA: kill or cure?' (DR)

Attacks by masked eviction gangs drive Beijing artists out of their studios. (JV)

Constant Dullaart links & video's

The latest issue of Metropolis M researches the work of rising star in the international exhibition circuit: Constant Dullaart. In regard to the highly internet active nature of his work we provide you a collection of links and video’s contextualizing the article in the magazine.

In 2007, Dullaart and the writers of the popular Dutch soap opera Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden (Good Times, Bad Times), collaborated on creating a fictional character of the prototypical artist: Juan-Stefano Vidal, as the result of a survey amongst Rijksakademie employees. Juan’s studio can be seen on Dullaart’s Flickr page.

Sometimes a coincidentally shared authorship unfolds. For the 2009 exhibition Versions in NIMK, Dullaart created the video series YouTube as a Subject. Electronic media artist ilovetoeatmicedotcom, alias Ben Coonley, responded with a series of his own films that investigate the YouTube trademark.

In turn Dullaart reacted with the installation YouTube as a Sculpture.

As a heavy user of the internet, the extent to which he shares his work and fascinations is extensive. He shares his favourite links on del.icio.us and Nasty Nets, his internet surfing club.

At www.readymades.net he gives a 2.0 meaning to the term 'readymade', which contains a collection of sponsored links, error messages and free domain names.

Archives of his video's can be found here, here and here.

Video's:

Live improvised dvd screensaver (humansaver)

Stabilized Earhquake Footage

TV Heartbeat

Hoolahoop