Little Thoughts on Art: Did Warhol Meet Picasso?

Little Thoughts on Art: Did Warhol Meet Picasso?

Andy Warhol loved France, or at least, I know for sure he loved the French language. He had such a good time in Paris exhibiting his Flowers there (I believe it was in 1965) that he decided it would be …

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Andy Warhol in Heipzig, oh sorry, Leipzig!

Andy Warhol in Heipzig, oh sorry, Leipzig!

It’s been a few weeks by now and the exhibition has already finished. I’m sorry for that, but I was particularly moved after seeing Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests show in Leipzig. It was nice to stick to…

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Guest Blogger Vanessa Gravenor - Part Deux: Nomadism

Guest Blogger Vanessa Gravenor - Part Deux: Nomadism

Did you ever give residencies, nomadism, and social relations in the art world some  critical  thought? Art writer and artist Vanessa Gravenor does. If you  missed  out on the first contribution, check it…

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ABC Art fair: Good Crazy Won

ABC Art fair: Good Crazy Won

Roman Signer, Hose, 2015, Photo: Häusler Contemporary I wasn’t feeling it, the Berlin Art Week. The gallery visits, I thought, would be nicer to do on some quiet fall days. I also didn’t make it to …

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Little Thoughts on Art: I'm Popular

Little Thoughts on Art: I'm Popular

I’ve never been so popular. People are reading my texts by the thousands. That’s the visitors’ rate of the exhibition Das Kapital in Hamburger Bahnhof. Curators Catherine Nichols and Eugen Blume asked…

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Little Thoughts about Art: Sweat

Little Thoughts about Art: Sweat

Sweat is so revealing, isn’t it. It can be the body showing its fear, its anxieties, its arousal. But we never make sweat into a topic, so far as I know, philosophically. Unlike shit or urine, art hasn’…

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Summer Musing: Big or Small

Summer Musing: Big or Small

I’m not a fan of Anselm Kiefer’s work. It’s too material loaded for me, too easy somehow: you put a lot of poisonous material on your canvas, add a Paul Celan title, and then it’s about war. But there’s…

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