Hip Hip...! Birthday Celebrations of Artists - Dead or Alive

Hip Hip...! Birthday Celebrations of Artists - Dead or Alive

Celebrating Andy Warhol's 85th birthday. Earth cam image from New York Times  I always refuse to memorize the dates of birth or death or an artist. Although it is a frequent question during gu…

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Christine Sun Kim with Thomas Benno Mader Online. About the Website of the MoMA Show "Soundings"

Christine Sun Kim with Thomas Benno Mader Online. About the Website of the MoMA Show "Soundings"

Christine Sun Kim.  All. Night.  2012. Score, pastel, pencil, and charcoal on paper, 38.5 x 50″. Courtesy the artist I have been drooling over the website of the MoMA New York, wishing I could go je…

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Meeting Friedrich von Borries. About My Worst/Best Job Interview Ever

Meeting Friedrich von Borries. About My Worst/Best Job Interview Ever

Trying to get the face right for the photo on my German CV People have asked me how I feel about the new piece that interacts (or not) now with The Right to be Lazy by John Knight in Hamburger Bahn…

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About Deja Vu, Originality and Being First. "Wir sind hier nicht zum Spass", Julia Voss and Hedy Lamarr

About Deja Vu, Originality and Being First. "Wir sind hier nicht zum Spass", Julia Voss and Hedy Lamarr

Thanks to Patrick for borrowing me this book: Jochen Foerster & Anthony Loder, Hedy Darling. Hollywood-Ikone. Technik-Pionierin. Gefallener Stern. Das filmreife Leben der Hedy Lamarr erzaehlt von…

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"thank you silence." Ugo Rondinone in M - Museum Leuven

"thank you silence." Ugo Rondinone in M - Museum Leuven

Ugo Rondinone, the river , 2011. © studio rondinone I made a detour to M - Museum Leuven  on my way back to Brussels airport, Belgium. It was the third time that I visited the museum and each time …

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The Whole Earth. Or Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?

On Sunday I went to the last day of the show The Whole Earth in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. A fascinating topic, and definitely a lot of fascinating material to discover in the exhibition. Y…

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Weary Dreary Holiday Time. Hildegard Knef, Sven Johne, Legacy

Weary Dreary Holiday Time. Hildegard Knef, Sven Johne, Legacy

Two blogs are bound to make one schizophrenic, so for an optimistic, upbeat view on the upcoming holiday times check out my blog entry La Ballade des Gens Heureux about  Die Toedliche Doris . If you happ…

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Fresh! New! My Blog about Die Toedliche Doris

Fresh! New! My Blog about Die Toedliche Doris

Underwear made me start this blog. And you're welcome to add any thought-provoking thoughts to this think tank about the Westberlin art and music band Die Toedliche Doris: http://dietoedlichedoris.b…

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Memorabilia. Backstage at the Art Bookstore

Memorabilia. Backstage at the Art Bookstore

It was in the Strassenfeger , a Berlin magazine of the homeless, that I read the best review about the current Martin Kippenberger show in Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum of Contemporary Art. I like the writ…

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Valeska Gert - Wolfgang Müller in conversation with Ernst Mitzka

Valeska Gert - Wolfgang Müller in conversation with Ernst Mitzka

Last Friday, May 10, 2013, we celebrated the publication of  Valeska Gert. Bewegte Fragmente. Eine Quellenedition / Fragments in Motion. A Source Book  (published by  Hybriden Verlag ) in …

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Timeless - The Storming of the Bastille. Texte zur Kunst and The Right to Be Lazy

Timeless - The Storming of the Bastille. Texte zur Kunst and The Right to Be Lazy

One my favorites pieces in Hamburger Bahnhof is The Right To Be Lazy by the Californian artist John Knight. I’ve written about it here  and more recently here  in my blog. To recapitulate shortly: It w…

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Don't Get Carried Away! A Book about Passions

Don't Get Carried Away! A Book about Passions

Manfred Paul, Verena - Geburt, 1977 I keep to my promise. I will start this year 2013 with a positive review. I did not have to look hard to find the right material. A catalogue on my book shelf p…

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