Fall 2018
EMRUZ. New music in Iran
Liselotte Sels
New music is making a powerful comeback in Iran. A generation of young composers is reconnecting with the period before the Revolution and the Iranian diaspora. Cultural emancipation and artistic …
Higher Art Education in Fluid Times? Do It Yourself!
Guy Bovyn
An innovative educational project aimed at interrogating the traditional studio model is due to start in the Royal Academy for Fine Arts in early 2019. Inspired by the DIY ethos of the punk movement …
Punk Pong
Nico Dockx, Dennis Tyfus
Most of the printed material that artists Nico Dockx and Dennis Tyfus produce under their respective Curious and Ultra Eczema imprints comes into being as a result of collaboration with other …
The private collection of Acácio Nobre. Homo universalis of the Portuguese Avant-Garde
Patrícia Portela
In 1999 Patrícia Portela was rummaging in her grandparents' cellar when she discovered a chest with texts and designs belonging to Acácio Nobre (1869-1968), a brilliant Portuguese polymath who was an …
Missa Maria Assumpta: One of the earliest scores for clarinet now available on CD
Eugeen Schreurs
There are many persistent misconceptions about the Mariae Assumptae mass of 1720 composed in Antwerp by Johannes Adamus Faber. Indeed it was long regarded as the first known, albeit lost, score ever …
