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Evert van Straaten, Stefan Hertmans
Jan Fabre
Hortus/Corpus

Marijke Kuper
Lex Reitsma (film)
Rietveld's Chair

Lieven de Cauter, Rubben de Roo, Karel Vanhaesebrouck
Art & Activism in the Age of Globalization
Reflect #8

Arjen Mulder
From Image to Interaction
Meaning and Agency in the Arts

Olga Atrosjtsjenko, Vladimir Boelatov, Inessa Kouteinikova, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Karina Solovjova, Irina Bagdamian
Russia's Unkown Orient
Orientalist Painting 1850-1920

Rob Dettingmeijer, Marie-Thérèse van Thoor and Ida van Zijl (eds.)
Rietveld's Universe

Arjen Mulder, Joke Brouwer (eds.)
The Politics of the Impure
Towards a Theory of the Imperfect

Glenn Adamson, Rick Poynor, Aaron Betsky
Vincent van Baar, Bert van Meggelen, Timo de Rijk (eds.)
Dutch Design Yearbook 2010

Jorinde Seijdel and Liesbeth Melis (eds.)
Merijn Oudenampsen (guest editor)
Open 20
The Populist Imagination
The Role of Myth, Narratives and Identity in Politics

Hans den Hartog Jager
Hans Eijkelboom, Sabrina Kamstra (eds.)
Hans Eijkelboom (photography)
Hans Eijkelboom. Good Intentions and Modern Housing
Photo Notes on an Amsterdam Suburb

Adele Chong, Timo de Rijk
Daan Roosegaarde
Interactive Landscapes

Vito Campanelli
Web Aesthetics
How Digital Media Affect Culture and Society

Bas Heijne, Piet de Jonge
Hans Wilschut (photography)
Hans Wilschut. Hidden Harbour
The Port of Rotterdam Exposed

Jelle Bouwhuis, Margriet Schavemaker
Monumentalism
History, National Identity and Contemporary Art

Jorinde Seijdel and Liesbeth Melis (eds.)
Open 19
Beyond Privacy
New Perspectives on the Public and Private Domain

Lex ter Braak, Johan Pijnappel, Özkan Gölpinar, Iftikar Dadi et al.
Editors: Lex ter Braak, Lilet Breddels, Steven van Teeseling
6(0) Ways...
Artistic practice in culturally diverse times

Jos Bosman, Aaron Betsky, Charles Esche, Linda Vlassenrood
Frank Havermans
Architectural Constructions

Catrien Schreuder, Jorinde Seijdel, Noud Heerkens
Pixels and Places
Video Art in Public Space

Sue-an van der Zijpp, Ingeborg Harms, Francesca Granata
Bernhard Willhelm & Jutta Kraus

Ine Gevers et al. (eds.)
Difference on Display
Diversity in Art, Science and Society

Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis (eds.)
Open 18
2030: War Zone Amsterdam

Christel Vesters (coordinating editor), Jelle Bouwhuis, Ingrid Commandeur, Gijs Frieling, Margriet Schavemaker, Domeniek Ruyters (eds.)
Now is the Time
Art & Theory in the 21st Century

Jenny Barendregt, Sabrina Kamstra, Mieke van der Star, Arnold Witte (eds.)
Corporate collections in the Netherlands

Pascal Gielen, Paul De Bruyne
Arts in Society
Being an Artist in Post-Fordist Times

Vincent van Baar, Bert van Meggelen, Timo de Rijk (eds.)
Dutch Design Yearbook 2009

Frits Gierstberg, Georgi Gospodinov, Vesselina Nikolaeva, Rik Suermondt
Simply a Line
No Man's Land between Bulgaria and Turkey

Henriëtte Heezen, Nathalie Zonnenberg, Tom van Gestel (red.)
Art as Urban Strategy
Beyond Leidsche Rijn

Linda Vlassenrood (ed.)
Tangible Traces
Dutch Architecture and Design in the making

Paul Meurs, Frits Gierstberg, Jaap Guldemond & Bregje van Woensel, Ineke Holtwijk, Luciano Figueredo
Brazil Contemporary
Architecture, Art, Visual Culture

Moosje Goosen, Janwillem Schrofer, Sarah Farrar, Juan A. Gaitán
PRIXDEROME.NL 2009
Visual arts

Editors: Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis
Open 17
A precarious Existence
Vulnerability in the Public Domain

Javier Panera, Rein Wolfs, Tom Morton, Katarina Gregos
Marc Bijl
"In case you didn't feel like showing up"

Liesbeth Melis, Joride Seijdel (eds.), Pascal Gielen ( guest editior)
Open 16
The Art Biennial as a Global Phenomenon
Strategies to Counter Neoliberal Market Logic

Dominic van den Boogerd, Wouter Vanstiphout et al.
Jeroen Doorenweerd

Hans den Hartog Jager, et al.
Tom Claassen

Matteo Pasquinelli
Animal Spirits
A Bestiary of the Commons

Frank van der Stok, Frits Gierstberg, Flip Bool, et al.
Questioning History
Imagining the Past in Contemporary Art

Liesbeth Melis, Jorinde Seijdel (eds.)
Open 15
Social Engineering
Can Society Be Engineered in the 21st Century?

Dick Raaijmakers, Arjen Mulder, Elmer Schönberger, Paul Slangen, Michael van Hoogenhuyze
Arjen Mulder (ed.)
Dick Raaijmakers
A Monograph

Auke van der Woud, Maartje van den Heuvel, Tracy Metz, Alison Nordström
Editors: Maartje van den Heuvel, Tracy Metz
Nature as Artifice
New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art

Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis
Open 22
Transparency
Publicity and Secrecy in the Age of WikiLeaks

This issue of Open investigates how transparency and secrecy are intertwined in modern-day society and explores how they relate to the public and the civic, using WikiLeaks as a special case. The contributors consider the public’s intrinsic bond with the secret, the political potential of transparency and transparency as fetish, and the ideal of free flows of information versus the struggle for information.

Paperback, 176 pages, English edition
€ 23.50

Editor: Anna Tummers
Celebrating in the Golden Age

After the highly successful ‘Haarlem: The Cradle of the Golden Age’ exhibition, the Frans Hals Museum is turning its attention to painted festivities from the seventeenth century. Celebrating in the Golden Age is the publication that accompanies the eponymous exhibition, a lavish volume that offers a surprising glimpse of people making merry, seen through the eyes of seventeenth-century Dutch masters.

Paperback, 160 pages, English edition
€ 33.00

Timo de Rijk, Antoine Achten, Hans van de Markt (eds.) Dutch Design Yearbook 2011
	The third Dutch Design Yearbook offers an overview of more than 60 of the best designs produced in the Netherlands in 2010 and 2011 in the fields of spatial design, product design, fashion and graphic design. This edition of the yearbook also offers a preview: Which designs will transform our surroundings in the future? Paperback, 216 pages, Dutch/English edition € 35.00

Marente Bloemheuvel, Toos van Kooten (eds.) Windflower, Perceptions of Nature Twelve Contemporary Artists
	The publication Windflower, Perceptions of Nature presents prominent artists’ insightful and poetic views on the beauty and fragility of nature in today’s modern world. Paperback, 224 pages, English edition € 35.00

Colin Huizing, Antoon Melissen, Pietje Tegenbosch, Tijs Visser, Caroline de Westenholz, Renate Wiehager, Midori Yamamura, Atsuo Yamamoto nul = 0 The Dutch Nul Group in an International Context
	The legendary Dutch Nul Group of the 1960s consisting of Armando, Henk Peeters, Jan Schoonhoven, Jan Henderikse and, for a while, herman de vries, has in recent years been the subject of renewed interest, both in the Netherlands and internationally. Paperback, 192 pages, English edition € 33.00

Georg Frerks, Berma Klein Goldewijk (eds.), Els van der Plas (visual eds.) Cultural Emergency in Conflict and Disaster
	'All that we’re wrecking is stones,’ was the Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar’s description of the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan, the largest standing statues of Buddha in the world. The priority of the fighters was not smashing stones, but breaking the soul of a culture, the spirit of people who venerated other gods. Paperback, 400 pages, English edition € 49.50

Nicoline Timmer Prix de Rome 2011 Visual Arts
	The Prix de Rome 2011 publication presents individual portraits of ten talented young artists who are participating in the Prix de Rome 2011, with special consideration for the four finalists. All the artists are age 35 years or under and were selected by an independent jury of international professionals. Paperback, 112 pages, Dutch/English edition € 29.95

Jorinde Seijdel and Liesbeth Melis (eds.)
Open 21
(Im)mobility
Exploring the Limits of Hypermobility

In parallel with the internationalization of the economy and modern communication systems, we are seeing the development of new regimes of mobility and immobility that are characterized by ever-greater internal conflicts. The rapid development of sophisticated communication technology is actually facilitating a further increase in physical mobility, motorized and otherwise. Increased remote contact is in fact stimulating the desire for physical meetings.

Paperback, 176 pages, English edition
€ 23.50

Josephine Bosma
Nettitudes
Let's Talk Net Art

During the 1990s, net art burst onto the scene as a radical reflection on the role of technology in contemporary art. In Nettitudes, Dutch art critic Josephine Bosma catalogues the tumultuous history of art as it became situated in the material dimensions of the Internet, from the spectacular interventions of the first decade to today’s dispersed practices, including online acoustics, poetry and archiving.

Paperback, 272 pages, English edition
€ 23.50

Photography: Paulien Oltheten Photos from Japan and my Archive
	Paulien Oltheten (b. 1982) travels the globe with her camera, casually but precisely capturing photos and video footage of people who are hanging around and tagging along. Walk on a Line is a compilation of photos and film stills that were recently shot in Japan in combination with images, short texts and sketches from her extensive archive. Paperback, 240 pages, English edition € 35.00