"38 Lux!", I was told by my friend Knut. He had the honour of lighting the Angel of History at the Bode Museum in Berlin. Imagine, giving light to an angel! Even more so, Paul Klee's Angelus…

A frosted landscape of tents covered in powdery snow or is it the sand of a desert blizzard.  A place at standstill, bathed in white light, and only a few people are out. In the foreground is a woman hold…

To have Vaginal Davis and Yoko Ono on two floors at Gropius Bau is pretty amazing. If you are in need of something with a soul these days, this is the place to go. I had already seen the Yoko Ono show at …

Who writes job descriptions? Is it the museum's board, each of its members adding their wishes to the list? Maybe that's what happened at Portikus in Frankfurt where you can apply for a job as a c…

Gallery Weekend in Berlin was a sad affair this year. Klaus Biesenbach made a tour. I know because he posed together with gallerists, who then took great pride in posting the photos on their social media.…

This is me biting into some spicy Indian food at the beginning of the New Year. At the end of 2024, I found something out that changed my outlook for 2025.  Ecco:  AAAAAPPPPP · LesQuatreCoins

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…

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…

Me caught in a field of cotton by Akane Kimbara A friend lend me his Un Art de la rencontre by Lee Ufan. Going to the opening last Thursday night at Hamburger Bahnhof, I was so impressed and also found it…

Me contemplating the seals at Gropius, between an Andy Warhol (ceiling), and a Dan Flavin (floor). Photo by Jennifer Danos  There is a video recording of me walking through Joseph Beuys' The End of…

Alban Hajdinaj, Evergreen, 2022 Last Friday, I attended the first Berlin Punk Symposium. I came in when Marie Arleth Skov was talking about the Dutch counter-movement Provo. Their "propaganda" p…

I made it back to Kewenig on Saturday afternoon. Berlin Art Week seemed to be somewhere else, which was a relief. It is best to be alone when you see Kimsooja's installation.  It is very simple: str…