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newsletter: art in public space

Discover the unique art collection of Rotterdam and read more about it in the prize-winning book Images. Urban embellishment in Rotterdam since 1940

It is spring, so we are moving into the city again! Take a good look around you and be amazed by the enormous amount of art in the public space that Rotterdam has. That large collection of public art has to do with the unique history of Rotterdam and the choices that collectors and the municipality made during the reconstruction period after the Second World War. Read all about these developments in the book Sculptures. Urban embellishment in Rotterdam since 1940. We are very proud that this - our - book by Siebe Thissen (published by Japanese Sam Books) last month Mr. J. Dutilh prize to receive!

Art also plays a major role in contemporary Rotterdam: read more about recent restorations, deliveries and events around Rotterdam artworks in public space in this special newsletter!

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Jazzin'Around: Jazz party on the Oude Binnenweg

18/05/18, 17:00 uur

Rotterdam is a real jazz city, and we celebrate† On Friday 18 May, the 14th and newest comic strip drawing in the Rotterdam series of jazz portraits will be unveiled at café Timmer. After the unveiling, a musical evening will follow on the Oude Binnenweg and on the Eendrachtsplein. The program is provided by CBK Rotterdam, R'JAM and Woonstad Rotterdam.

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First anniversary for the Time Capsule

30/05/18

Come to the Wilhelminapier on May 30 and celebrate the lustrum of the Time Capsule with us! The time capsule was placed in the time capsule next to the Wilhelminasteen stopped and contained questions about a very distant future: the year 2135. Now, five years later, we are making an initial assessment. How is the world now? With Rotterdam? With ourselves? The program starts at 15:00 PM.

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The Idler's Playground to South

31/05/18

In the coming years Sculpture International Rotterdam will be organizing an international art project in Rotterdam South. The first step in this project is the relocation of The Idler's Playground of Cosima von Bonin to the beginning of the Putsebocht and the arrival of three bronze statues from the Coolsingel to the garden of the Cultuurwerkplaats (where SIR has an annex). The unveiling and the garden party will take place on Thursday 31 May, be welcome!

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ME / WE selfie wall & video on IDAHOT

17/05/17

There will be a monument to sexual diversity! The initiative will be presented in the city with the ME/WE selfie wall and a video report by Shafelly Snijders. This can be seen on May 17 on IDAHOT: the international day against homophobia, biphobia and transphobia. Also take a selfie by the wall and post it with #MeWe010. The photo with the most likes will win an exciting cultural goodie bag!

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'Images. Urban embellishment in Rotterdam since 1940 'wins the J. Dutilh prize

Now available for € 37,50

the mr. J. Dutilh Prize is awarded every two years by the Historisch Genootschap Roterodamum to a writer of a historical book about Rotterdam. According to the jury Siebe Thissen's book is 'innovative', a 'magnum opus' and 'a masterpiece'. Buy your copy now at the better Rotterdam bookstore, or via BKOR.nl.

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IRREGULAR - Ad Schouten

Bloemfonteinstraat

On the mural in the ornamental frame on Bloemfonteinstraat, Ad Schouten (1946 – 2017) portrays himself as a ten-year-old boy in the 50s. He looks out over Katendrecht and the then still bustling Maashaven. Of IRREVERSIBLE Schouten refers to the passing of this period. This mural by Ad Schouten has been restored on behalf of CBK Rotterdam and Vestia.

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Cape Color: Port view repainted

Katendrecht

In 1964 Dolf Henkes painted 'Havenzicht' and in 1990 a cut-out of this painting was placed on the facade of a building on Timorstraat in Katendrecht. This residential block was demolished in 2016. Partly thanks to contributions from the Job Dura Fund & Woonstad Rotterdam Foundation, a complete new facade molding be made, at the new Kaapvaarder building. The mural was applied by Advertising studio Leo Mineur.

The Gabo is blooming again!

You will not have missed it: 'the Gabo' is blooming again! 'Het Ding', 'De tulp' or the self-titled work by Naum Gabo (1957) on the doorstep of the Rotterdam Bijenkorf (1955-1957) by architect Marcel Breuer shows itself again in all its glory. The work has been restored by MeestersIn. The sculpture's four steel ribs are covered with a caramel-gold coating, and a top layer of zinc, brass and protective lacquer.

ROTTERDAM: CITY OF LIGHT AND POETRY

Light route Rotterdam now available

The municipality of Rotterdam and CBK Rotterdam have jointly drawn up a road map that takes you along the city's nighttime highlights. This map, Light route Rotterdam, is now available free of charge at the Rotterdam Tourist Information on the Coolsingel and at Central Station and via CBK Rotterdam. The English version of the map will be released on 21 May.

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