The Aesthetics of Mystery: Chandan Shafiqui Kabir in Milan, Italy

The Aesthetics of Mystery: Chandan Shafiqui Kabir in Milan, Italy

Chandan Shafiqui Kabir, Organic form "It's a liver, right?" I asked the Milan based artist Chandan Shafiqui Kabir . I had guessed correctly. Good instincts because I don't really …

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Tips from a Museum Tour Guide, 4: Geistiges Kapital

Tips from a Museum Tour Guide, 4: Geistiges Kapital

The contemporary museum has the capacity to make you feel elated, because you might see an art work that is great and it makes you flow in positivity because such a creation is possible and also recogni…

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Little Thoughts on Art: Retrospectives

Little Thoughts on Art: Retrospectives

For some artists a retrospective exhibition is not the best idea. It’s weird, but somehow their work can be great when shown in a group show or in a solo show with just one or two pieces, but shown in…

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Little Thoughts on Art: Let It "Schwing"

Little Thoughts on Art: Let It "Schwing"

What makes out great art? You can see and feel the difference. Somehow something is lacking in some art that keeps it from being great. We’re talking about this little thing extra, an excess of some …

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Tip from a Museum Guide 3: Ask for Beauty

Tip from a Museum Guide 3: Ask for Beauty

Is it okay to expect beauty at the Museum of Contemporary Art? My favourite artist Ming Wong said a true thing about beauty in contemporary art during his performance Art Must Be Beautiful at the Hong…

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Tips from a Museum Tour Guide, 2: Think

Tips from a Museum Tour Guide, 2: Think

Although Joseph Beuys said that a museum should be like a university with objects, people usually don’t want to think for themselves in museums. They want a wall text, labels, and a guide like me to exp…

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Tips from a Museum Guide 1: Don't Touch!

Tips from a Museum Guide 1: Don't Touch!

You know how books have, what they call so beautifully in German, an “Aufschagverhalten.” The art  bookstore sales persons explained this to me, since it is something they deal with every day when new…

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Berlin Gallery Weekend 2016: Read My Diary!

Berlin Gallery Weekend 2016: Read My Diary!

Here is my diary of Berlin's Gallery Weekend, chronologically. If you have no time to read it all, go to my excitements, four in total, which is not bad. I left out the diary entrees after 9pm, the pa…

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