Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (°1960) founded the dance company Rosas in 1983. Her choreographic work has always aimed at a meticulous exploration of the relationship between dance and music. With Rosas, De Keersmaeker has created an extensive oeuvre, deploying musical structures and scores from a variety of eras, ranging from early modern music to contemporary compositions and even pop. Her choreographic practice also borrows formal principles from geometry, mathematical models, natural phenom...

In de zomer van 1955 verhuisde Picasso zijn atelier naar ‘La Californie’, een belle époque-villa van begin vorige eeuw, gelegen in de heuvels rond Cannes. De grote Jugendstil ramen en het uitzicht op de tuin met cactussen, eucalyptus- en palmbomen kwamen terecht in Picasso’s schilderijen. Deze interior landscapes, zoals Picasso ze noemde, tonen onvoltooide schilderijen en sculpturen, schildersmaterialen, muziekinstrumenten en allerhande objecten die hij als rekwisieten gebruikte in zij...

What does it mean to speak of artistic autonomy at a time when art is fully commercialised and aesthetics has become the guiding principle of economic production and policymaking? This book by Sebastian Olma takes a fresh look at this question by summoning three heroes of the aesthetic revolution to confront the challenges faced by artistic practice today. Turning Kant into a campaigner for the Anthropocene, Schiller into a creative entrepreneur, and Schelling into a political activist, Olma ...

Acclaimed and beloved for her paintings of women and small children in intimate, informal settings, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) was the first American artist to associate and exhibit with the French Impressionists in Paris. Cassatt explained her affinity for depicting children, saying they are "natural and truthful," two of the exact qualities that her generation of artists was energetically pursuing. This beautiful book, edited by a preeminent Cassatt scholar, brings together more than sixty ...