I try not to look at advertising in public space because its clichés tend to annoy me. Yet there is one I always look forward to. It’s in the Friedrichstraße subway station U6 and it’s screened every…

Hedy Lamarr in Ecstasy, 1933 Can art pave the way for mainstream culture to open up? T he first interracial kiss on American television ( Star Trek , 1968) followed a few years after Andy Warhol'…

Wolfgang Müller in front of Kisch & Co shopping window, with MÜLLUNG (Hybriden Verlag, Berlin) and his records  STOPP und MUSIKEN (Squoodge Records, Berlin) Do you love window shopping? I curat…

You know how  embarrassing  it is to walk around in the city with a bag of toilet paper in your hand. It’s too big to fit into the shopping bag, so there you are, carrying it around, visible to eve…

Elisa Lago addressing the audience Today we - the Choir Cantalindo , conducted by my friend Elisa Lago - had our first live performance with a repertoire of five songs. Quite exciting for 11am on a…

The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, 1954 Do you know that Pablo Picasso was on a strict diet? I know, it seems like a very un-Picasso thing to do. But artists' dishes are a good topic - I heard all…

Franziska Klinkmüller, restoring in the Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin There are those kinds of artists, that are consciously making self-destructive art - the great Dieter Roth was one of them a…

Roman Signer's  Kitfox Experimental at KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art Berlin, Sept. 14, 2014 - June 28, 2015 My friend, the curator Faith Powell, brought beer into the museum in a newly ope…

Many people have been screaming this week that  they have to defend the freedom of  the West that has been with us since Enlightenment (by spreading stereotypical satire on Muslims in a Europe that…