I’ve been chilling on Tenerife’s beaches for the past days. A hot Sahara wind made it impossible to move much further than from my beach towel to the sea and back. A cultural critic is of course never r…

Yesterday I bumped into Kasper König at Hamburger Bahnhof. He was looking fresh and suntanned, even wearing a summery hat. He just arrived back from Athens, so he told me. How was it? I asked him. He wa…

Today is the celebration of 100 years of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain and as a little inside action (although, not so inside since it was reported about in the newspaper), people could get in for free …

Not everything has to be about art, na? Life is also funny in the subway, the park and in the pizza place around the corner: In the subway, the man next to me takes out a book titled Cabin Porn. Intr…

I've been thinking about the Dana Schutz' Open Casket painting the last two weeks and here some of my thoughts:  - Aesthetics: Why does nobody talk about aesthetics?  Dana Schutz’ painting is …