While on Saturday night the Love Parade was raving in Tiergarten, in the atrium of the nearby Kunstgewerbemuseum  a re-performance of Charlotte Moorman's John Cage piece 26'1.1944'' was st…

Fondazione Prada in Milan lacks a good bookstore. It is so reduced that it is almost non-existing. I wanted to buy a book on Pino Pascali but only the catalogue was on sale, which was too big (and expensi…

A new Erik Satie piece, in a 1919 arrangement by Hans Ourdine. Listen to an excerpt of Parade, a collaboration by Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso and Erik Satie. Find out what Truman Capote and André Gide hav…

A piece of a broken clay vase by Yoko Ono is part of my art collection. It was given to me by Ono  in 2009, after her performance at the Arsenale Theatre at the Venice Bienniale. I was one of the last to …

My mother and I are colouring in cows at the Wiels coffee shop. We found the cows, together with a box of colours, on our way out of the Jef Geys exhibition, curated by Charlotte Friling and Dirk Snauwa…

A sculpture called  Roses  made of decoration paper and a few coloured ribbons here and there, accompanied by watercolours of flowers. Nothing much, you would say. Rosemary Mayer would agree, "anothe…

A Josephine Baker show at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. When it was announced for 2024, I was excited. Now I have seen it, I'm less happy and even a bit disappointed. Josephine Baker. Icon in Mo…