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…

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…

Lin May Saeed in Georg Kolbe Museum The first villa is the Georg Kolbe Museum, a 1928 modernist villa in Westend. I visited it on a Thursday afternoon in November when the sun hesitantly appeared in the s…

Arte is streaming the Agatha Christie film Appointment with Death of 1988 with Peter Ustinov. Ustinov is my favourite Poirot so I watched it once more. Especially the endings are always so jolly with Ust…