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Tuesday May 18, 2010
Special editions at Dashwood
Dashwood bookstore at 33 Bond Street New York is interested to sell some of the special editions of the DutchDoc!Space books. The owner, David Strettell, told us it is difficult to sell special editions, but was interested in some of the books anyway.Monday May 17, 2010
Aperture interested in DutchDoc!Space show
The day before the DutchDoc!Space show started Lesley Martin of the Aperture Foundation came over to visit the show in a preview. She was very enthousiastic and had the idea of making a kind of show in the Aperture Galery. The day after the DutchDoc!Spaceshow at NYPH10 we visited the space and met with other people of the organization. The news is that they are still interested and we are talking about when, what and how.Saturday May 15, 2010
Rob Hornstra winner of bookprize at NYPH10
The Dutch Photographer Rob Hornstra won one of the New York Photo Festival Awards in the categorie: Photographic Book. He won the prize with his book Sanatoria. There were also two Honorable Mentions for two other Dutch Photograpers, Jeroen Hofman & Jeroen Kramer.Wednesday May 12, 2010
Today at six opening NYPH10 in St. Ann's Warehouse
The opening of the NYPH10 will be at 6pm at St. Ann's Warehouse. You have to have a ticket, which you can buy at the main office at Mainstreet Dumbo . It is still doubtfull if one of the curators will come, the man everybody is waiting for: Lou Reed. Will he come, will he perform?Monday May 10, 2010
Five nominees of Dutch Doc Award in NYPH10 shows
Five Dutch photographers who are in New York with a show at the New York Photofestival are nominated for the Dutch Doc Award in the Netherlands. Jeroen Kramer, Petra Stavast are nominees for The Dutch doc Award.Sunday May 09, 2010
Filmpremières in St. Ann's Warehouse
Three films about three Dutch photographers will have their first run at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn New York. It is part of the DUTCHDOC!SPACE show at the New York Photo Festival#1 New York | Tuesday May 18, 2010 |
Shut down of DutchDoc!Space
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Photo's: Willem Popelier
Photo's of the shut down of the DutchDoc!Space show. It had to be done carefully, because at the end the show was folded into a book.more
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#1 New York | Sunday May 16, 2010 | DUTCHDOC!SPACE
Interview with Petra Stavast in DutchDoc!Space
The festival has almost finished. Today it is the last day and it is interesting to hear what the experiences of the photographers were. Here you can see the interview with Petra Stavast.
#1 New York | Sunday May 16, 2010 | DUTCHDOC!SPACE
Interview with Wytske van Keulen at DutchDoc!Space
The festival has almost finished. Today it is the last day and it is interesting to hear what the experiences of the photographers were. Here the interview with Wytske van Keulen.
#1 New York | Sunday May 16, 2010 | DUTCHDOC!SPACE
Interview with Daan Paans at DutchDoc!Space
The festival has almost finished. Today it is the last day and it is interesting to hear what the experiences of the photographers were. Here the interview with Daan Paans
#1 New York | Sunday May 16, 2010 | DUTCHDOC!SPACE
Interview with Willem Popelier at DutchDoc!Space
The festival has almost finished. Today it is the last day and it is interesting to hear what the experiences of the photographers were. Here the interview with Willem Popelier.
#1 New York | Sunday May 16, 2010 |
Overview of DutchDoc!Space
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Introduction and start of the exhibition
An overview of DutchDoc!Space. The photos were made by Victor Leurs.more.
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Walking throught the sheets
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Walking through the sheets
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The book of Petra Stavast on sheets
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The book of Wytske van Keulen on sheets
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One of the four exposed books, the book of Willem Popelier, hanging on the wall
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Browse throught the book of Daan Paans
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The 20 special editions specially for this photofestival, hanging on the wall in plastic bags
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The special edition of Jaap Scheeren and Hans Gremmen
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List of the special editions (situation at friday afternoon)
#1 New York | Sunday May 16, 2010 | ANNELIES KUIPER
Masterclasses from idea till book
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Masterclass how to start a photobook as a young photographer with Willem Popelier (on the right), Boudewijn Bollmann, Daan Paans and presenter Annelies Kuiper Photo: Michl Sommer
At the NYPH10 theater, St. Ann s Warehouse the six photographers who travelled to New York to help with the show, had to performe these days. We devided one theme into three shows.1. From idea till book with Wytske van Keulen and Petra Stavast, who told about how they started with their projects, how they got their idea and about why it was important for them to make a book about it.
2. How to finance your books with Rob Hornstra, who told about the start of his first book for his final exam. He wanted to make a book but didn't know how to finance it, so his first marketingplan came up.
3. How to start with a photobook as a young photographer with Boudewijn Bollmann, Daan Paans and Willem Popelier. They were interviewed about their first projects, but mostly about they projects their working on right now: a new twisted streets #9, a project about the border of Slovakia and a book which was released with 3 copies of a special edition and will be released next week in Holland xxx & Willem.
It was great to notice that the audience really was interested in the things they told. After the performance there were people coming to the photographers to ask more questions or came to the DutchDoc!Space show to ask more about the books they made.
More...2. How to finance your books with Rob Hornstra, who told about the start of his first book for his final exam. He wanted to make a book but didn't know how to finance it, so his first marketingplan came up.
3. How to start with a photobook as a young photographer with Boudewijn Bollmann, Daan Paans and Willem Popelier. They were interviewed about their first projects, but mostly about they projects their working on right now: a new twisted streets #9, a project about the border of Slovakia and a book which was released with 3 copies of a special edition and will be released next week in Holland xxx & Willem.
It was great to notice that the audience really was interested in the things they told. After the performance there were people coming to the photographers to ask more questions or came to the DutchDoc!Space show to ask more about the books they made.
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How to finance your photobook with Rob Hornstra. Photo: Willem Popelier
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From idea till book with Petra Stavast (on the right), Wytske van Keulen and presenter Annelies Kuiper. Photo Willem Popelier
#1 New York | Saturday May 15, 2010 | DUTCHDOC!SPACE
Special guest: Erik Kessels about the books he made
DutchDoc!Space invited one of the leading curators of the NYPH10 to give a talk about making his own books: Erik Kessels of KesselsKramer .Kessels is in the Netherlands and abroad also famous because of his photobooks. He doesn't make books with his own photos, but with the ones he finds at fleemarkets and other places. He talked about how he started this and why he is so interested in making these books. For the first one he asked a publisher to publish it, for the rest he became is own publisher .
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Three movies got a succesfull première at St. Ann s Warehouse
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First run of the film of Petra Stavast at St. Ann s Warehouse Brooklyn New York
Three small films which were made by Mirelle Thijsen (1) and Eefje Blankenvoort (2) about three young Dutch documentary photographers had a succesfull first run at the NYPH10. Althought the theater was not full, people reacted enthousiastic on the stories the photographers, Petra Stavast, Rob Hornstra and Willem Popelier.Each of the photographers told about how they work, why they make the choices they do and about the content of their projects.
Two of the films are online right now at Dutch Doc Films , the last one will be released online next week.
(1) Mirelle Thijsen is an arthistorian, curator and publishes articles for Camera Austria, Katalog, Camera International. She is the founder of International Photography Research (iPhoR ).
(2) Eefje Blankevoort (1978) is a filmmaker and writer. She is one of the founders of Prospektor, a journalistic productionagency. This agency writes articles and books, makes documentaries, films on assingment and work often with photographers at long term projects.
More...Two of the films are online right now at Dutch Doc Films , the last one will be released online next week.
(1) Mirelle Thijsen is an arthistorian, curator and publishes articles for Camera Austria, Katalog, Camera International. She is the founder of International Photography Research (iPhoR ).
(2) Eefje Blankevoort (1978) is a filmmaker and writer. She is one of the founders of Prospektor, a journalistic productionagency. This agency writes articles and books, makes documentaries, films on assingment and work often with photographers at long term projects.
#1 New York | Friday May 14, 2010 | BOUDEWIJN BOLLMANN
The adventures of Bollmann in New York
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David C. Walentas, probably the riches man of Dumbo, Brooklyn New York showed photographer Bollmann around in his 20 million dollar building.
It is well-known that in the States everything is bigger than big. I met a man yesterday near Brooklyn Bridge who stands for this cliché. His name is David. He was sitting in this lunchroom eating lunch. I fell for his awefull white sportshoes, his Levi's 501 and leather jacket, and went to him.I found out that this man is a real estate developer, no, the developer of Dumbo, the space between Manhattan- and Brooklyn Bridge. He owns a skyscraper with his own name on it and if I wanted he could show me. And he did....
Bollmann is an adventurer who is telling his stories through images. Read more about this story on a Dutch blogviceland (In Dutch only) and take a look at his website .
More...Bollmann is an adventurer who is telling his stories through images. Read more about this story on a Dutch blogviceland (In Dutch only) and take a look at his website .
#1 New York | Friday May 14, 2010 | DUTCHDOC!SPACE
Rob Hornstra sold out
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Rob Hornstra's special edition sold out quickly after his lecture at St. Ann's warehouse.
After the masterclass of Rob Hornstra yesterday at St. Ann's Warehouse people were eager to buy the special edition of the 101 billionairs crisis edition. Even before the talk was finished three women came to the DutchDoc!Space in a hurry and all three bought a copy. There were only five copies actually in the artspace, but we could sell 5 copies more which will be send from Holland.
Special Edition Booksale every day from 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m at DutchDoc!Space, Galapagos Gallery.
Check out all the special editions here
#1 New York | Friday May 14, 2010 | DUTCHDOC!SPACE
Behind the scenes of a photofestival
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'Lou Reed Books Do Not Touch' Photo: Marga Rotteveel
The day after the opening curator Marga Rotteveel found this chair with the label on it: 'Lou Reed Books. Do not touch.' It is funny to find out how such things work at the a New York Photo Festival.The opening of the festival had a delay of an hour or so. We found out later that there were some problems with the ceremony with Lou Reed, one of the leading curators in it. The day of the opening, late in the afternoon, Reed got a little angry and told the staff the program had to be different. It took obviously a lot of time.
And it was not just that. Of course it is interesting from marketing perspective, to have a big name on the show and at the opening ceremony, but for the organisers it is not nice if this person drills you around and looks or stoned, or drunken, or ill in the evening. Reed could hardly say anything and if he did, he talked very slowly and didn't say anything really.
It is a shame for the staff. The organisers of the festival and the volunteers work so hard, theay are really dedicated to the festival and, most important maybe, they are really kind and helpfull.
More...And it was not just that. Of course it is interesting from marketing perspective, to have a big name on the show and at the opening ceremony, but for the organisers it is not nice if this person drills you around and looks or stoned, or drunken, or ill in the evening. Reed could hardly say anything and if he did, he talked very slowly and didn't say anything really.
It is a shame for the staff. The organisers of the festival and the volunteers work so hard, theay are really dedicated to the festival and, most important maybe, they are really kind and helpfull.
#1 New York | Thursday May 13, 2010 | VICTOR LEURS
Special delivery
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#1 New York | Thursday May 13, 2010 | DUTCHDOC!SPACE
NRC Cultuurblog found DUTCHDOC!SPACE
Yeah, I love these photos! With this title the Dutch newspaper NRC wrote an article about the NYPH10. And they found DUTCHDOC!SPACE as well. Read it at NRC .#1 New York | Thursday May 13, 2010 | DUTCHDOC!SPACE
Booksale in DUTCHDOC!SPACE right now!
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Booksale at DUTCHDOC!SPACE right now till 6 pm and there will be one till sunday.
#1 New York | Thursday May 13, 2010 |
Sticking posters on the wall and tear it off again
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Sticking posters at night
Photographer Rob Hornstra wanted to do something special: he hanged his Sochi Projectposter at Brooklyn walls in the middle of the night. Illegally. It was beautiful. They were hanging right in the center of the Photo Festival and it got noticed immediately. Also the 'wallinspectors' noticed it right away and they phoned angry to the organisers: "you have to jerk them off again! Otherwise you have to pay a 1000 dollars fine!"
So, with a small team, at daylight, Hornstra jerked them off again. And he made an event out of it: the team got photographed gazillion times.
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jerk it off again during the day
#1 New York | Thursday May 13, 2010 | DUTCHDOC!SPACE
Opening at NYPH10
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After party at Powerhouse Arena. Photo: Willem Popelier
At 6.30 pm when the opening was planned, but nothing seem to happen at St. Ann's Warehouse, the doors were closed. We found out that the opening was re-sceduled to 7.30, they were not ready yet. But after an hour there was a big show at the stage. We will tell you later...!And afterwards there was a great afterparty in Powerhouse Arena.
Update:
... Read more at Spotted #3
More...Update:
... Read more at Spotted #3
#1 New York | Wednesday May 12, 2010 | VICTOR LEURS
Final preparations
Frantic last preparations before the show opens.
Last minutes before the opening.
Finishing touches by Boudewijn.
Boudewijn Bollmann chalking away.
Willem Popelier and Daan Paans making a movie for the blog.
The walls weren't very cooperative.
Paans and Bollmann cutting the paper sheets.
Test run for the mounting of the books on the concrete wall.
Petra Stavast (straight from the airport!) and Rianne mounting the pages on the sheets.
And another mistake... it's getting late.
Annelies Kuiper and Michl Sommer hanging the sheets. Almost done!
#1 New York | Wednesday May 12, 2010 | VICTOR LEURS
Spotted #2!
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#1 New York | Wednesday May 12, 2010 | ANNELIES KUIPER
The Dutch seem to be in the lead
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81 Front Street
Today the last preparations for the shows will be made. Four hours to go to the opening at 6pm. Photographer Willem Popelier did some research and found out that the Dutch seem to be the most organised. Look at the status of the shows between 1pm and 2pm.more
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Galapagos Artspace (DutchDoc!Space)
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Smack Mellon Gallery (Erik Kessels)
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81 Front Street
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St. Ann's Warehouse other show
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St. Ann's Warehouse
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Tobacco Warehouse
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PowerHouse Arena
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First piece of paper hanging
#1 New York | Tuesday May 11, 2010 | DUTCHDOC!SPACE
Copier arrived
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The copier. Photo: Daan Paans
One of the activities in the show is to make a book yourself out of the exposed books. You even can do a workshop for it. You need a copier for that of course. We were waiting for two days. Well, not only waiting, but also asking when the thing would arrive. Today two men came and they brought a beautiful copier. Daan Paans made a nice picture of it.#1 New York | Tuesday May 11, 2010 | MARGA ROTTEVEEL
Comedy in Dumbo Brooklyn NY
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The ladder which leads to a place with a living room and a bedroom. Photo: Willem Popelier
There are many stories to tell about one day in Brooklyn New York. It's if some scenes of a comedy are playing right in front of you. It is really hillarious to see a Jewish newly wed couple walking by through the artspace and says 'Hello' and in the meanwhile the cateringservice is building up everything for the same wedding. It is the same place where we are working to make the exhibition work. But the most funny part was a guy.A guy in a Wallstreet suit comes into our room and says "hi". He walks further into the officespace of the gallery. Here 2 people are working behind their computers. The first day we came here, we noticed a strange hole under the roof, it's an attic. A ladder leads to it and we were really curious of what it would be. We thought it would be a place to play for the three cats who live here. We were very suprised that the Wallstreet guy climbs up this ladder.
When he got down again we asked him what the place was. To our suprise he told us he was sleeping there for a couple of nights. We found out that the place not only had a bed, but also a living room. And friends could stay over for a while.
More...When he got down again we asked him what the place was. To our suprise he told us he was sleeping there for a couple of nights. We found out that the place not only had a bed, but also a living room. And friends could stay over for a while.
#1 New York | Tuesday May 11, 2010 | DUTCHDOC!SPACE
The posters are everywhere
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#1 New York | Tuesday May 11, 2010 | DUTCHDOC!SPACE
Communicating with headquarters
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On the skype at headquarters. Photo: laptop Annelies Kuiper
There are only 4 miles between the place where we live this week and the artspace where the show is. Because of the drilling and dust, we decided to make office at home for two days. But we have to communicate about things and the distance is to big to yell to each other, the cellphone is way to expensive. So we re-discovered skype. It works really well!More.
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On the skype in Galapagos. Photo: Willem Popelier
#1 New York | Tuesday May 11, 2010 | WILLEM POPELIER
Building up a show at Galapagos
The first day of real work: drilling, cutting, playing.
#1 New York | Tuesday May 11, 2010 | DUTCHDOC!SPACE
spotted #1!
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#1 New York | Tuesday May 11, 2010 | MICHL SOMMER
The search for paper rolls
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Paperrolls. At the end of the day we found them. Photo: Marga Rotteveel
We've been working all day long to put the show up. The atmosphere is great, although there are some tough things to handle. Walls that are a hundred years old and as hard as steel. A drill that only can handle wooden walls. A couple of hours waiting time for a drill from a really nice guy from Jersey. But these are minor details. One thing was really tough. For example: We needed to have big rolls of paper for the show. But where do you find paper?
But where do you find paper? In the Netherlands we surfed the internet for hours, we googled every term we could think of but we didn't really find a trustworthy place. We wrote e-mails to our friends of Fotofestival, but nobody knew the right answer. We had to wait until we arrived in New York.
Gumchewing girl
At the Galapagos artspace they know more: two addresses in Manhattan. So we phoned with our question. Because in Europe we work with centimeters where in the States people use inches it was to difficult to find out by phone. So we went to the store. Once we got there we were devestated by the way they treated their customers. A gumchewing girl with a bored look on here face helped a client who had a big piece of cardboard. She asked the girl if it would be possible to cut it in half so it would be easier to transport. An irritated sound came back. "Costs 8 dollar," she said when she was chewing and chewing. The client reacted suprised: "You're kidding!" The girl got more irritated, chewed even harder and made a statement that that the costs are for labour and: "oh yeah, you can pick it up tomorrow morning."
Look further
The customer did it, what else could she do, but it was hillarious. We didn't have more succes. The guy on the phone forgot to take a look at the paper as he promised. The girl wasn't helping at all. A stupid discussion started till I had it and pushed my colleague out of the door and said to the girl that the guy could look further, but that we didn't have time anymore. The girl for once in the half hour we were there, stopped chewing and looked at me with big eyes. I didn't wait to see her chew again.
More...Gumchewing girl
At the Galapagos artspace they know more: two addresses in Manhattan. So we phoned with our question. Because in Europe we work with centimeters where in the States people use inches it was to difficult to find out by phone. So we went to the store. Once we got there we were devestated by the way they treated their customers. A gumchewing girl with a bored look on here face helped a client who had a big piece of cardboard. She asked the girl if it would be possible to cut it in half so it would be easier to transport. An irritated sound came back. "Costs 8 dollar," she said when she was chewing and chewing. The client reacted suprised: "You're kidding!" The girl got more irritated, chewed even harder and made a statement that that the costs are for labour and: "oh yeah, you can pick it up tomorrow morning."
Look further
The customer did it, what else could she do, but it was hillarious. We didn't have more succes. The guy on the phone forgot to take a look at the paper as he promised. The girl wasn't helping at all. A stupid discussion started till I had it and pushed my colleague out of the door and said to the girl that the guy could look further, but that we didn't have time anymore. The girl for once in the half hour we were there, stopped chewing and looked at me with big eyes. I didn't wait to see her chew again.
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Cutting the paper. Photo: Marga Rotteveel
#1 New York | Monday May 10, 2010 | ANNELIES KUIPER
It's a mess, but we believe in it!
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Tables, tools, flowers, dust in Galapagos. Photo: Willem Popelier
Okay. If you think you have everything under control for a show, because of the existence of internet and the possibilities to communicate with the whole world, you are wrong. We thought we arranged everything: a nice clean artspace in the centre of DUMBO Brooklyn NY. It is a nice artspace, that's for sure, but clean? No.It was of course nice to meet the owner and director of Galapagos, they are really kind people. They are also a little chaotic it seems. Last week they had a visit of the firedepartment, so they didn't have time to clean it up. Tables, tools, flowers in cans, bikes, paint and lots of dust are in this room. That's not good for white paper.
They promised us that it will be cleaned today, but till afternoon nothing was moved yet. Exiting! But nothing to worry about. We have four young men from Holland here, so if they don't do it....
Read tomorrows blog for result!
More...They promised us that it will be cleaned today, but till afternoon nothing was moved yet. Exiting! But nothing to worry about. We have four young men from Holland here, so if they don't do it....
Read tomorrows blog for result!
#1 New York | Saturday May 09, 2009 | DUTCHDOC!SPACE
DutchDoc!Space meets Galapagos
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The Galapagos artspace in front of the Brooklyn Bridge. Photo: Willem Popelier
In the cultural community DUMBO in Brooklyn NY there is a nice place called Galapagos . No, it's not an island, it's a new artspace, a kunsthalle. It opens in the fall 2010, but opened the doors for DUTCHDOC!SPACE during the New York Photo Festival .Galapagos calls itself kunsthalle, because it's not really a commercial artgallery or a museum with a collection. It will be a place where especially young artists can show their high quality work without commercial concerns. The commercial part seems the place underneath the artspace, also called Galapagos, where they earn some money with renting the room for weddings, theatre, caberet etc.
It should be a place where all kinds of cultural events take place. That's the reason for the name Galapagos. The story is that Darwin found a big variety of species at the Galapagos Islands . That's exactly what the artspace in New York is trying to do: a rich variety of cultural species.
More...It should be a place where all kinds of cultural events take place. That's the reason for the name Galapagos. The story is that Darwin found a big variety of species at the Galapagos Islands . That's exactly what the artspace in New York is trying to do: a rich variety of cultural species.
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