Berlin Art Lovers: Berglind Ágústsdóttir on Brutal Honesty

Berlin Art Lovers: Berglind Ágústsdóttir on Brutal Honesty

Portrait of Berglind Ágústsdóttir. Photo: Karolina Daria Flora I got to know Berglind Ágústsdóttir in 2010, when she performed a homage to Valeska Gert's candle dance in Südblock, as part of the …

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Open Letters: a Correspondance with Chilean Art Writer Ignacio Szmulewicz, 10

Open Letters: a Correspondance with Chilean Art Writer Ignacio Szmulewicz, 10

This is the 10th letter in a series of letter writing about art between Ignacio Szmulewicz and me. I've never met Ignacio in person but yesterday we did speak on Skype (only with voice, neither of u…

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2016 Prediction: Art Critics Are Getting Together!

2016 Prediction: Art Critics Are Getting Together!

Last year I wrote a few predictions about 2015, of which I remember two. One was about how the boy’s club is going to breath its last. It was definitely breathing more shallow in 2015, wasn’t it? I also …

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Guest Blogger Sujin Jung Reporting from South-Korea: A Special Dinner Date

Guest Blogger Sujin Jung Reporting from South-Korea: A Special Dinner Date

This is the fourth story in the fiction art writing  series of Seoul art blogger Sujin Jung. To close off the year 2015 Sujin Jung visited an exhibition at DDP and talks about the latest "micro-trend…

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Art Blogger of The Week: Sally Deskins near Pittsburgh, USA

Art Blogger of The Week: Sally Deskins near Pittsburgh, USA

Photo: Thompson Higgins Sally Deskins found me before I found her. She contacted me for her blog Les Femmes Folles  to talk about art criticism and feminism. I knew the subject of art criticism tend…

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How I Got To Nuremberg: Catching a Train, SoulCycling, and Transparency

How I Got To Nuremberg: Catching a Train, SoulCycling, and Transparency

Nuremberg Lebkuchen. Copyright: Stanislava Dimitrova Sleek Magazine sent me to Nuremberg to cover an exhibition titled Transparenzen ,  taking place in both Kunstverein Nuremberg and Kunstverein Bie…

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Open Letters: A Correspondence with Chilean Art Writer Ignacio Szmulewicz, 9

Open Letters: A Correspondence with Chilean Art Writer Ignacio Szmulewicz, 9

Ignacio Szmulewicz and I have never met but we talk about the weather as if we are old friends. Any letter should have an update about the weather, don't you think? Even those of art critics. This is …

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To Pull A Dream Into The Morning.  Volksbühne, KN, and DOC11

To Pull A Dream Into The Morning. Volksbühne, KN, and DOC11

Ben Mauk, The Maker, 2015 Doesn't winter make you turn inside? I'm more susceptible to poetry in this season. It soothes the existential gloom. And the heaviness that normally frightens me a…

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I Love Art Gadgets 2: Make Time Run!

I Love Art Gadgets 2: Make Time Run!

3 and 5 minutes sand hours Another  favourite  art gadget of mine are the sand hours at the art bookstore. They come in different colours and in different minutes: 3 or 5. I bought the 3  minutes one…

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I Love Art Gadgets 1: The Unofficial Beuys Candle

I Love Art Gadgets 1: The Unofficial Beuys Candle

It's really nothing to be ashamed of, although the bookstore people think one should be: the love for art gadgets. I find the art gadget business a very interesting business, one that reveals a lo…

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Feministing Philosophy. Sexing up Social Theory. Kegels for Hegel

Feministing Philosophy. Sexing up Social Theory. Kegels for Hegel

Yesterday I was reading about Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who published in 1895, together with a committee of women, The Woman's Bible. The idea behind it was to focus on the part of the Bible that talks …

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Human Madness. "The Sunflower House" by Dan Thy Nguyen and Irakiis Panaglotopoulos at the Queer Art Audio Festival, Berlin

Human Madness. "The Sunflower House" by Dan Thy Nguyen and Irakiis Panaglotopoulos at the Queer Art Audio Festival, Berlin

Dan Thy Nguyen discussing his The Sunflower House . There's only one thing I could complain about at  Echos + Netze - Das Trans’tonale Hörfest , a queer art audio festival in Künstlerhaus Bethani…

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