Summer Musing: Celebrities at the Museum

Summer Musing: Celebrities at the Museum

Sometimes I give guided tours at the museum for exclusive people like the wives of ministers and presidents. It’s the museum director who takes care of the fun celebrities from Hollywood. Once P. from t…

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Summer Musing: Practical Advice by Ingrid Bergman

Summer Musing: Practical Advice by Ingrid Bergman

In my favourite art bookstore there is a new edition of Isabella Rossellini’s biography Some of Me , published in 1997. Salesperson P. told me that it’s not a good book, but it does have some good in…

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Summer Musing: How Beautiful!

Summer Musing: How Beautiful!

Oscar Wilde took in 1881 (he was twenty-seven years old at that time) the boat to the United Stated on his mission to spread beauty in the country of industrialisation. In his Lecture for Art Students …

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Summer Musing: How To Keep An Open Mind

Summer Musing: How To Keep An Open Mind

To make great art, you need to have an open mind. I’ll give you an example of such an open mind. I read this story in Andy Warhol’s Philosophy, or it might also have been his Popism. I don’t remember …

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Summer Musing: “The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be.”

Summer Musing: “The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be.”

Yesterday my friend Elisabeth and I were talking about vision. And Elisabeth mentioned that moment when you’re walking in the darkness late at night and you see something you can’t make sense of immed…

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Guest Blogger Vanessa Gravenor - This Precarity: Residential Interventions

Guest Blogger Vanessa Gravenor - This Precarity: Residential Interventions

To be a tourist in the late twentieth century is to invest in a broad range of assumptions about the travel experience. Notions of escape, adventure and a return to an Edenic past are pervasive to the lan…

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Summer Musing: Ticket to Nowhere

Summer Musing: Ticket to Nowhere

Over the last years the Berlin Bienniale has gotten kind of a bad reputation: it seems like a ticket to nowhere. I mean, it destroys promising careers instead of boosting them, and isn’t that what a Bi…

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Summer Musing: It Smells of Beer from London to Berlin

Summer Musing: It Smells of Beer from London to Berlin

I’ve told you before about Maria Gilissen, the widow of the Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers, and that once in a while I'm lucky to meet her. Last time we met during Gallery Weekend and we ende…

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