Now is the Time
24/11/2009

To celebrate the publication of the collected essays Now is the Time: Art & Theory in the 21st Century, the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam will host a booklaunch on Tuesday, December 1. During the event Eelco van Welie, director NAi Publishers and Gijs van Tuyl, director Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, will present first copies of both the Dutch and English edition of the publication to Lex ter Braak, director of the the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB), and to Gitta Luiten, director of the Mondriaan Foundation who supported the publications financially.

The collected essays Now is the Time: Art & Theory results from the successful lecture series with the same name that took place between October 2008 and January 2009 in Amsterdam and that was made possible with the generous support of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture; the Mondriaan Foundation and the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. Now is the Time is a collaboration between the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, W139, SMBA and Metropolis M.

Editors: Jelle Bouwhuis, Ingrid Commandeur, Gijs Frieling, Domeniek Ruyters, Margriet Schavemaker, Christel Vesters

Coordinating Editors: Christel Vesters

Authors: Terry Eagleton, Boris Groys, Hou Hanru, Jörg Heiser, Laura U. Marks, W.J.T. Mitchell, Jos de Mul, Robert S. Nelson, Ruth Noack, Rick Poynor, Kaja Silverman, Sean Snyder, Julian Stallabrass, Camiel van Winkel

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