Silly Poems

I started writing poetry during my residency in Italy. That's what solitude does to one! I always thought that poetry was too hard: one has to write half finished sentences that have to be deep and me…

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Deswegen!!! Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good)

Deswegen!!! Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good)

Best theatre piece I saw in a decade happened last Saturday. At HAU Gob Squad performed Kitchen . I'm writing this so you know that they are performing another piece upcoming weekend at the Volksbüh…

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Deutsche Tiefe. Anne Imhof at the Venice Biennial

Germany came in second last at the Eurovision Song Contest so everybody in Germany was so happy when it came in first at the Venice Biennial. When Sandra Kim won the Eurovision in 1986 with singing “J’aim…

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Secret Thoughts in Italy

Secret Thoughts in Italy

I’m not at the Venice Biennial this year. Instead I’m watching birds at a residency in Piedmont. But some things you don’t have to see for real to know what it’s about. “Venice Goes…

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Berlin Gallery Weekend:  Give Me That Fur Coat!

Berlin Gallery Weekend: Give Me That Fur Coat!

Exactly wrong shoes. Photo: Akane Kimbara Sarah Lucas took the air out of Gallery Weekend. Two weeks before the art hopping event was happening, she had a blast in the new gallery space of Contempora…

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