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Tag Archives: Sweet Nothings

About Heaven

‪Marlene Dumas. Marlene Dumas reading from her Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: About Heaven. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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Simplicity

Marlene Dumas. Marlene Dumas reading from her Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: Simplicity. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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Measuring your own Grave

Marlene Dumas. Marlene Dumas reading from her Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: Measuring your own Grave. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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The Right to be Silent

Marlene Dumas. Marlene Dumas reading from her Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: The Right To Be Silent. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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The Origin of the Species

Marlene Dumas. Sophie Hunger reading from Marlene Dumas’ Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: The Origin of the Species. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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No more Interviews

Marlene Dumas. Sophie Hunger reading from Marlene Dumas’ Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: No more Interviews. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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Women and Painting

Marlene Dumas. Marlene Dumas reading from her Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: Women and Painting. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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Valentines Day‬‬

Marlene Dumas. Marlene Dumas reading from her Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: Valentines Day. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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The Muse is Exhausted

Marlene Dumas. Marlene Dumas reading from her Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: The Muse is Exhausted. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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The Artwork as Misunderstanding

Marlene Dumas. Marlene Dumas reading from her Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: The Artwork as Misunderstanding. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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Home Is Where The Heart Is

Marlene Dumas. Marlene Dumas reading from her Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: Home Is Where The Heart Is. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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Drawings and the People who look at them

Marlene Dumas. Marlene Dumas reading from her Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: Drawings and the People who look at them. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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To Life

Marlene Dumas. Bettina Stucky reading from Marlene Dumas’ Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: To Life. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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On Words and Images

Marlene Dumas. Bettina Stucky reading from Marlene Dumas’ Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: On Words and Images. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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My Thoughts on Big Shows

Marlene Dumas. Bettina Stucky reading from Marlene Dumas’ Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: My Thoughts on Big Shows. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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It’s as Easy as 1, 2, 3

Marlene Dumas. Bettina Stucky reading from Marlene Dumas’ Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: It’s as Easy as 1, 2, 3. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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Deadlines and Airmiles

Marlene Dumas. Bettina Stucky reading from Marlene Dumas’ Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: Deadlines and Airmiles. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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Waiting Rooms (Need TV)

Marlene Dumas. Sophie Hunger reading from Marlene Dumas’ Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: Waiting Rooms (Need TV). (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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Ask Me No Questions

Marlene Dumas. Bettina Stucky reading from Marlene Dumas’ Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: Ask Me No Questions. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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A united Europe

Marlene Dumas. Bettina Stucky reading from Marlene Dumas’ Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: A United Europe. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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Always True

Marlene Dumas. Marlene Dumas reading from her Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: Always True. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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Suspect

Marlene Dumas. Marlene Dumas reading from her Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: Suspect. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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A Painting Needs a Wall to Object to

Marlene Dumas. Sophie Hunger reading from Marlene Dumas’ Book ‘Sweet Nothings’: A Painting needs a Wall to object to. (video) Basel: Fondation Beyeler (2015)

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Book Launch: Marlene Dumas Sweet Nothings Notes and Texts

Book Launch: Marlene Dumas Sweet Nothings Notes and Texts. (video) Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 14-12-2014

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Passages

Marlene Dumas. ‘Jan Hoet 1936-2014’. Artforum (Summer 2014): p. 91

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Non-traditional Relationships

Marlene Dumas. ‘Non-traditional Relationships’. Manifesta 10: The European Biennial of Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue), London: Koenig Books, 2014: p. 92

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A Gothic Story. The Final Tale

Marlene Dumas. ‘A Gothic Story. The Final Tale’. Marlene Dumas. Sweet Nothings. Notes and Texts 1982-2014, London: Koenig Books, 2014: p. 160

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Natasja in Wonderland

Marlene Dumas. ‘Natasja in Wonderland’. The Crying Light (exhibition catalogue), Dublin: Royal Hibernian Academy, 2013: p. [9]

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Every Prize has its Price

Speech given by Marlene Dumas during the award ceremony of the Johannes Vermeer Prize 2012 on 29 October, Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft, The Netherlands, 2012

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An Artwork of the 19th Century that was and stays important to me. Even Fairies can be ok.

Marlene Dumas. ‘An Artwork of the 19th century that was and stays important to me. Even Fairies can be ok’. Frieze Masters. Ideas from the Past in the art of the Present, London: Frieze Publishing, 2012: p. 87

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Luc

Marlene Dumas. ‘Luc’. AnOther Magazine (18-10-2012)

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Mike Kelley

Marlene Dumas. ‘Marlene Dumas over Mike Kelley’. NRC Handelsblad, 13-12-2012 [special edition of NRC Handelsblad on the occasion of Mike Kelley’s solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam]

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Photographs that like Books and Films that like Photographs

Marlene Dumas. ‘Foto’s die van boeken houden en films die van foto’s houden / Photographs that like Books and Films that like Photographs’. Look. Ed! Images from the Archive of Ed van der Elsken selected by Marlene Dumas, Rineke Dijkstra and Marijke van Warmerdam, Amsterdam: Annet Gelink Gallery, 2012

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Royal Awards: Queens, Stars and Painters

Marlene Dumas. ‘Koninginnen, sterren en schilders/Queens, Stars and Painters’. Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam: Stichting Koninklijk Paleis, 2011: p. 34-36, 40

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The portrait of Josephine-Eleonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Bearn, Princesse de Broglie

Marlene Dumas. ‘De kleur van hoop. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, La Princesse de Broglie (The Portrait of Joséphine Eléonore Marie Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn, Princesse de Broglie)’. Nexus, no. 55 (2010): p. 33-38

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Alice doesn’t live here anymore

Marlene Dumas. ‘Alice doesn’t live here anymore’. Alice Neel. Painted Truths (exhibition catalogue), Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2010

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Against the Wall. Letter to David

Marlene Dumas. ‘Against the Wall. Letter to David’. Against the Wall (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam/Santa Fe: Idea Books Distribution/Radius Books, 2010: p. 49-55

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Contra o Muro

Marlene Dumas. ‘Contra o Muro’. Contra o Muro (exhibition catalogue), Porto: Museu Serralves, 2010: p. 57

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Two of a kind

Marlene Dumas. ‘Two of a kind’. Contra o Muro (exhibition catalogue), Porto: Museu Serralves, 2010: p. 59

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

Marlene Dumas. ‘For Whom the Bell tolls’. Contra o Muro (exhibition catalogue), Porto: Museu Serralves, 2010: p. 80

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The Third World War

Marlene Dumas. ‘De Derde Wereldoorlog/The Third World War’. Metropolis M, no. 6 (December-January (2010) 2009): p. 17-18

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Measuring your own Grave

Marlene Dumas. ‘Measuring your own Grave’. Measuring your own Grave (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008: p. 194

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Framing and Naming

Marlene Dumas. ‘Framing and Naming’. Measuring your own Grave (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008: p. 261

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North Africa (Woman of Algiers)

Marlene Dumas. ‘North Africa (Woman of Algiers)’. Measuring your own Grave (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008: p. 177

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Beaches ain’t what they used to be

Marlene Dumas. ‘Beaches ain’t what they used to be’. Measuring your own Grave (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008: p. 34

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Southern Comfort

Marlene Dumas. ‘Southern Comfort’. Measuring your own Grave (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008: p. 179

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Homage to the Polaroid

Marlene Dumas. ‘Homage to the Polaroid’. Measuring your own Grave (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008: p. 91

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Expiring Dates

Marlene Dumas. ‘Expiring Dates ‘. Measuring your own Grave (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008: p. 179

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Improvise. Lalala and Halloo

Marlene Dumas. ‘On the drawings of Keren Cytter’. Keren Cytter (exhibition catalogue), Vienna: MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 2007

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On Photography and Modern Life

Marlene Dumas, Ralf Rugoff. ‘On Photography and modern Life’. The Painting of Modern Life: 1960s to Now (exhibition catalogue), London: Hayward Gallery, 2007 [selected fragments from a conversation between Marlene Dumas and Ralf Rugoff]

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Adult Entertainment or what do I do

Marlene Dumas. ‘Adult Entertainment or what do I do (when you are far away)’. Intimate Relations (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam/Johannesburg: Roma Publications/Jacana Media, 2007: p. 79

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Man Kind

Marlene Dumas. ‘Man Kind’. Man Kind (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam: Galerie Paul Andriesse, 2006: p. 3-4

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Collateral Damage

Marlene Dumas. ‘Melissa Gordon: Collateral Damage (or, Paintings of Pictures that Show a Painting isn’t a Picture)’. Wild at Heart, Amsterdam: Stichting Ateliers ’63, 2006: p. 39-45

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And God Said – I told you so

Marlene Dumas. ‘And God said – I told you so’. Kitsch Unedited: Letters and Texts of Friends compiled by Jan Andriesse, Tilburg: De Pont Museum, 2006: p. 21-23

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Tomorrow,

Marlene Dumas. ‘Tomorrow’. M+M Marlene Dumas + Marijke van Warmerdam (exhibition catalogue), Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2004

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Pretty Boys

Marlene Dumas. ‘Pretty Boys’. Respect! Forms of Community: Contemporary Art from the Netherlands (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam: Mondriaan Foundation, 2005

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The Right to be Silent

Marlene Dumas. ‘The Right to Be Silent’. Frieze, no. 80 (January/February 2004): p. 84-85

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The Second Coming

Marlene Dumas. ‘The Second Coming’. The Second Coming (exhibition catalogue), London: Frith Street Gallery, 2004

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Immaculate

Marlene Dumas. ‘Immaculate’. Frieze, no. 80 (January/February 2004): p. 88-89

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The Death of the Author

Marlene Dumas. ‘The Death of the Author’. Frieze, no. 80 (January/February 2004): p. 86-87

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Suspect, Simplicity, About Heaven

Marlene Dumas. ‘Suspect, Simplicity and About Heaven’. Marlene Dumas: Suspect (exhibition catalogue), Milan: Skira, 2003: p. 35, 46, 66, 77, 79

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As good as it gets Van Gogh is the one.

Marlene Dumas. ‘As good as it gets. Van Gogh is the One’. GoghModern: Vincent van Gogh and Contemporary Art, Amsterdam/Rotterdam: Van Gogh Museum/Stedelijk Museum/NAi Publishers, 2003

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You know you are a Foreigner

Marlene Dumas. ‘You know you are a Foreigner’. Early Works: De Ateliers 1998-2002 (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam: Stichting Ateliers ’63, 2002: p. 21

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Wake-up Call

Marlene Dumas. ‘Wake Up Call’. Early Works: De Ateliers 1998-2002 (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam: Stichting Ateliers ’63, 2002: p. 20

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Notes on All is Fair in Love and War

Marlene Dumas. ‘Frank Stella: Notes on All is Fair in Love and War’. Marlene Dumas. Sweet Nothings. Notes and Texts 1982-2014, London: Koenig Books, 2014: p. 200 [written in 2001 on the occasion of the exhibition All is Fair in Love and War, New York, 2001, but at the time unpublished]

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Topless Bars and Structural Skeletons

Marlene Dumas. ‘Topless Bars and Structural Skeletons’. Name no Names (exhibition catalogue), Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2001: p. 34-37

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Name no Names

Marlene Dumas. ‘Name no Names’. Name no Names (exhibition catalogue), Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2001: p. 34-37

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Never say Never 
or One Drawing too Many

Marlene Dumas. ‘Never say Never or One Drawing too Many’. Marlene Dumas: One Hundred Models and Endless Rejects (exhibition catalogue), Boston/Ostfildern: Institute of Contemporary Art/Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001 [selected fragments from Marlene Dumas: One Hundred Models and Endless Rejects, 2001]

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Live Acts. Silent Studios.

Marlene Dumas. ‘Live Acts. Silent Studios’. Strippinggirls: Anton Corbijn, Marlene Dumas (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam: Stichting Actuele Kunstdocumentatie, 2000

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A true Hedonist is hard to find

Marlene Dumas. ‘A true Hedonist is hard to find’. Marlene Dumas: MD (exhibition catalogue), Antwerp/London/Høvikodden: MUKHA/Camden Arts Centre/Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, 1999

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MD-light


Marlene Dumas. ‘MD-light’. Marlene Dumas: MD (exhibition catalogue), Antwerp/London/Høvikodden: MUKHA/Camden Arts Centre/Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, 1999

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Fame and Fortune

Marlene Dumas. ‘Fame and Fortune’. Marlene Dumas, London: Phaidon, 1999: p. 138

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Future Perspective

Marlene Dumas. ‘Future Perspective, or why he’s not the Man they say he is’. Jan Andriesse (exhibition catalogue), Dordrecht: Dordrechts Museum, 2000 [written in 1999]

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Do the right Thing

Marlene Dumas. ‘Do the right Thing’. Grey Areas: Representation, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary South African Art (exhibition catalogue), Rivonia-Johannesburg: Chalkham Hill Press, 1999: p. 129-131

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Improper Relationships

Marlene Dumas. ‘Improper Relationships’. Marlene Dumas, London: Phaidon, 1999: p. 142

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Accepting Painting for what it is

Marlene Dumas. ‘Accepting Painting for what it is’. A fruitful Incoherence, London: Iniva, 1998: p. 50

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Women

Marlene Dumas. ‘Women’. Sweet Nothings: Notes and Texts by Marlene Dumas, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Balie/Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1998 [written in 1997]

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Valentines Day

Marlene Dumas. ‘Valentines Day’. Sweet Nothings: Notes and Texts by Marlene Dumas, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Balie/Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1998: p. 136 [written in 1997]

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Rejects and Reasons

Marlene Dumas. ‘Rejects and Reasons’. Auf dem Strich, Arbeiten zum Thema Prostitution (exhibition catalogue), Kiel: Kulturviertel in Sophienhof Kiel, 1997

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First Flights Overseas

Marlene Dumas. ‘First Flights Overseas’. The Bread and Butter Stone, The Douglas Hyde Gallery on Memory, Dublin: Douglas Hyde Gallery, 1997: p. [no pagination]

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As the World turns

Marlene Dumas. ‘As the World turns’. The Bread and Butter Stone, The Douglas Hyde Gallery on Memory, Dublin: Douglas Hyde Gallery, 1997: p. [no pagination]

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Art and Prostitution

Marlene Dumas. ‘Art and Prostitution’. Auf dem Strich, Arbeiten zum Thema Prostitution (exhibition catalogue), Kiel: Kulturviertel in Sophienhof Kiel, 1997

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Always true

Marlene Dumas. ‘Always true’. Sweet Nothings: Notes and Texts by Marlene Dumas, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Balie/Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1998: p. 137 [written in 1997]

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A united Europe

Marlene Dumas. ‘A united Europe’. Sweet Nothings: Notes and Texts by Marlene Dumas, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Balie/Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1998: p. 131 [written in 1997]

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A nice Girl like you

Marlene Dumas. ‘A nice Girl like you’. Portikus Frankfurt am Main 1987–1997, Frankfurt am Main: Portikus, 1997: p. 257

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Youth and other Demons

Marlene Dumas. ‘Youth and Other Demons’. Marlene Dumas, Youth and Other Demons (exhibition catalogue), Tokyo: Galery Koyanagi, 1996

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International Biennales

Marlene Dumas. ‘International Biennales’. Manifesta (exhibition catalogue), Rotterdam: Foundation European Art Manifestation, 1996: p. 7-11

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The perfect Lover, the absent Lover and the Daughter

Marlene Dumas. ‘The perfect Lover, The absent Lover and the Daughter’. Marlene Dumas (exhibition catalogue), London: Tate Gallery London, 1996

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The Wrong Questions

Marlene Dumas. ‘The wrong Questions ‘. The Intellectual Conscience of Art (L & B/Lier en Boog), vol. 11 (1996): p. 28

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Pin-Up

Marlene Dumas. ‘Pin-Up’. Pin-Up (exhibition catalogue), Tienen: Stedelijk Museum Het Toreke, 1996

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The 7 Year Itch

Marlene Dumas. ‘The 7 Year Itch’. Art Gallery Exhibiting: The Gallery as a Vehicle for Art, Amsterdam: Galerie Paul Andriesse/Uitgeverij de Balie, 1996: p. 177

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Masterpieces and Miss World

Marlene Dumas. ‘Meesterwerken en Miss Wereld’. Openbaar Kunstbezit/Kunstschrift, vol. 40, no. 6 (November/December 1996): p. 28-29

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Goya’s The Fates

Marlene Dumas. ‘A brush with Genius: Marlene Dumas on Goya’s The Fates’. The Guardian, 04-06-1996: p. 10

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Deadlines and Airmiles

Marlene Dumas. ‘Deadlines and Airmiles’. Sweet Nothings: Notes and Texts by Marlene Dumas, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Balie/Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1998 [written for a special issue of Parachute (Fall 1995) on the theme of transit]

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Beyond the Protection of the Law

Marlene Dumas. ‘Buiten Beskerming van die Wet’. Africus. Johannesburg Biennale (exhibition catalogue), Johannesburg: Johannesburg Biennale, 1995: p. 186

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Three Maria’s are better than One

Marlene Dumas. ‘Three Maria’s are better than One’. Dumas, Roosen, Van Warmerdam (exhibition catalogue), Venice, 1995

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Bacon and Dumas

Marlene Dumas. ‘Bacon and Dumas, or the Discomfort of being ‘coupled’ ‘. Marlene Dumas/Francis Bacon (exhibition catalogue), Malmö/Milan: Malmö Konsthall/Castello di Rivoli, 1995: p. 27-39

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The next Generation

Marlene Dumas. ‘The next Generation’. Dutch Biennale Bulletin, Johannesburg: Africus, Johannesburg Biennale, 1995

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A Painting needs a Wall to object to

Marlene Dumas. ‘A Painting needs a Wall to object to’. Sweet Nothings: Notes and Texts by Marlene Dumas, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij De Balie/Galerie Paul Andriesse, 1998: p. 102-103 [quote from 1995]

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Models

Marlene Dumas. ‘Models’. Marlene Dumas: Models (exhibition catalogue), Stuttgart: Oktagon, 1995: p. passim

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