Voorjaar 2014 zal bij Jap Sam books een omvangrijke monografie verschijnen van de Amerikaanse kunstenaar Richard Saxton. Het boek, vormgegeven door Peter de Kan heeft 560 pagina's en is getiteld 'A Decade of Country Hits - Art on the Rural Frontier'. Het boek presenteert een overzicht van werk geïnitieerd en gerealiseerd door Richard Saxton in landelijke gebieden.

'A Decade of Country Hits - Art on the Rural Frontier' omvat onder meer een selectie van foto's uit Saxton's 'Rural Research Arc...

Nederland staat vol met naoorlogse portiekflats. Deze type woningen, ooit gebouwd om in de woningnood na de Tweede Wereldoorlog te voorzien, zijn nu grotendeels verouderd, en voldoen niet meer aan de eisen en wensen van huidige bewoners en mogelijke nieuwe woningzoekenden. Een belangrijke vraag die gesteld kan worden is: Heeft de portiekflat nog toekomst?

De portiekflat in de U.J. Klarenstraat in Amsterdam-Slotervaart toont aan dat gedateerde portiekflats zeker nog niet afgeschreven hoeven te...

The terrorist attacks at the start of the 21st century catapulted the issue of space and conflict into the forefront of architectural debates. As a result, existing and newly emerging national, religious and ethnic conflicts in relation to urban space became the focus of attention in architecture. Though military thinking had already had a long-standing tradition in architectural history, the sudden emergence of new spaces of conflict considerably altered architectural discourse. Extreme cond...

Every Day until Antwerp is a literary travel journey about a walking trip from Amsterdam to Antwerp, along the railway line of the old Benelux train that by now has ceased to be. Determined not to go home at the end of a day’s walking but to camp on the land that up till then she had only known as an image seen through the train window, Jacqueline Schoemaker set off, pulling a tent and a sleeping bag in a shopping trolley behind her. She walked in this way from the city where she lives to t...

Contemporary British artist Ian Berry (1984, Huddersfield UK) has been making virtuous figurative paintings and installations of denim for over 15 years. This eponymous publication accompanies the first solo-exhibition of Berry in the Netherlands. Ian Berry. Splendid Isolation, Museum Rijswijk, December 1, 2020 – April 5, 2021.

Illustrated with numerous images that aim to convey the depth and texture of Berry’s work, which explores our urban environment and examines community issues, or t...

This Naked Incident is a deep dive in search of the place that 'masculinity' holds in the lives of young people today. Alexander van der Heide and Sander Coers spoke with five peers; all assigned male at birth and all with very different experiences of masculinity and equally different gender expressions. Because what is masculinity? Where it sometimes seems that we have no more than stereotypes to resort to in our efforts to make this tangible, it turns out there are specific moments, charge...