I was thinking about posterity when I caught myself. I had picked the wrong word, not "posterity" but "prosperity."  A customer at the bookstore wants to buy a Thomas Struth ca…

In May, Wolfgang Müller and I spent a marvelous three weeks in Conzano, Italy. Renata Summo - O'Connell, director of Artegiro Contemporary Art, had invited us for a residency as part of the  Cocoaa Pr…

S. sits on the elevated platform of the museum's art bookstore and turns on his computer to start the day. He opens his email account and shouts out: "So viel Spam hatten wir noch nie!" …

At the bakery this morning the man next to me was having his inner conversation out loud: Freundlich, mir einen schönen Tag zu wünschen... [gießt Milch im Kaffee] Der fängt dann gleich an. [rührt i…

"There has to be content to art," the artist told me. "How do you make content?" I asked. "By adding words," the artist replied.

My friend Farzaneh Safavi is visiting from San Francisco. We like to write poetry together so we did this Friday afternoon. "Nothing" is inspired by Andy Warhol, "Na so was" by Ber…