Love and love and...

Love and love and...

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 staged. &q…

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Pino Pascali & Yoghurt

Pino Pascali & Yoghurt

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…

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To Trickle Into Somebody's Tomorrow

To Trickle Into Somebody's Tomorrow

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 AndrĂ© Gide hav…

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Promise Piece

Promise Piece

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 …

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Chantal & Jackie

Chantal & Jackie

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…

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Catchers of Passing Beauty

Catchers of Passing Beauty

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…

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Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker

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…

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The Thickness of Things

The Thickness of Things

It's been a while since I laid my eyes on Philip Guston's paintings at the Tate. But I made notes. Plus, it was very memorable. After running through a few rooms of abstract paintings, I was stopp…

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