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Fri, Mar 27, 2009
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

New Museum Sky Room, 7th floor (directions)

Be(com)ing Dutch Closing Party

Part of Exhibition Related, Museum as Hub

Be(com)ing Dutch Closing Lecture and Reception with the Project Curators Annie Fletcher and Charles Esche

Be(com)ing Dutch is a large project developed over two years both inside and outside the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Consisting of debates, reading groups, artist's projects, exhibitions, and residencies, it interrogated various forms of collective participation and production.

Museum as Hub: Be(com)ing Dutch at a Distance, the final phase of the project, features an installation by Michael Blum in the fifth-floor Museum as Hub space and additional presentations of works by Lidwien van de Ven and Johan van der Keuken in the theater.

Tonight’s address and reception celebrate the official close of the two-year Be(com)ing Dutch project, with a lecture by the project’s curators addressing the trajectory of Be(com)ing Dutch. A keynote address by the project’s curators Charles Esche, Director, and Annie Fletcher, Curator, of the Van Abbemuseum, will be followed by a reception.

A keynote address by the project’s curators Charles Esche, Director, and Annie Fletcher, Curator, of the Van Abbemuseum, will be followed by a reception.

Be(com)ing Dutch at the Van Abbemuseum, 2006-2008, exhibition design by Nathalie Schellekens and Jan Dijkstra. Image courtesy the Van Abbemuseum.

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Museum as Hub is made possible by the Third Millennium Foundation.

Seeds of Tolerance

With additional generous support from Metlife Foundation.

Additional support is provided by the Asian Cultural Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.
The Mondriaan Foundation awarded its 2006 Development Prize for Cultural Diversity to the Van Abbemuseum for the Be(com)ing Dutch project. Within the project's framework, the museum has organized a diversity of gatherings and a large-scale exhibition over the last two years.

Be(com)ing Dutch has been made possible with the support of: