AMSTERDAM.- The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam announces the acquisition of SCATTERED MATTER BROUGHT TO A KNOWN DENSITY WITH THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD / CUSPED (2007) by American artist Lawrence Weiner (b. New York, 1942) as a gift to the museum’s collection from the Association of Friends of the Stedelijk Museum. The work will debut as part of The Temporary Stedelijk at the Stedelijk Museum—the upcoming interim program in the Stedelijk Museum’s renovated historic building that opens to the public on 28 August 2010—and will remain on view indefinitely. One of the central figures associated with the emergence and foundations of Conceptual art in the 1960s, Lawrence Weiner remains one of the most significant artists working today. Weiner‘s work consists of language plus the materials referred to, wherein language is also considered a sculptural material. The conditions of a work of art have been the basis of W