Node's Innovators Program 2015, Thinking in Art, and an Award for Best Art Business of the Year

Node's Innovators Program 2015, Thinking in Art, and an Award for Best Art Business of the Year

I'm getting addicted to Vlogging. I'm at that Andy Warhol moment in my career, I think, when he decided to give up painting and go totally for film. Yesterday, I met a fellow amateur IMovie user, …

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Vlogging Thibaut De Ruyter! "Digitale Demenz (Artificial Intelligence)" at Eigen + Art Lab

Vlogging Thibaut De Ruyter! "Digitale Demenz (Artificial Intelligence)" at Eigen + Art Lab

Thibaut de Ruyter and I looking at the smart phone, which ended up being a stupid phone. My favourite Berlin Art Week  exhibition was the one curated by Thibaut de Ruyter at Eigen + Art Lab : Digit…

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Art Object of the Week: Self-Destructive Art

Art Object of the Week: Self-Destructive Art

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…

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Like Old Cheese. What Museum Cafés Tell You About The Avant-Garde

Like Old Cheese. What Museum Cafés Tell You About The Avant-Garde

I’ve written about museum bookstores as the backstage to the art world. Museum cafés are equally important. They are like the kitchen at home. It’s a big mistake not to have one. Kunsthaus Bethanien, fo…

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Simply The Best: How Grace Jones Beat Andy Warhol and Germany

Simply The Best: How Grace Jones Beat Andy Warhol and Germany

Andy Warhol introduced Keith Haring to Grace Jones. In 1985 Jones and Haring collaborated in a performance staged at Paradise Garage in NY City.  Check out Warhol and Haring featuring in Jones' vide…

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The 8th Berlin Bienniale 2014: School Is Out!

The 8th Berlin Bienniale 2014: School Is Out!

The 8th Berlin Biennale, which opened on Wednesday May 28, made me wanna look at The Wonder Years again. With Kevin and Winnie promising to always be together, and Kevin and Paul drinking beer and smo…

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Christine Sun Kim with Thomas Benno Mader Online. About the Website of the MoMA Show "Soundings"

Christine Sun Kim with Thomas Benno Mader Online. About the Website of the MoMA Show "Soundings"

Christine Sun Kim.  All. Night.  2012. Score, pastel, pencil, and charcoal on paper, 38.5 x 50″. Courtesy the artist I have been drooling over the website of the MoMA New York, wishing I could go je…

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Weary Dreary Holiday Time. Hildegard Knef, Sven Johne, Legacy

Weary Dreary Holiday Time. Hildegard Knef, Sven Johne, Legacy

Two blogs are bound to make one schizophrenic, so for an optimistic, upbeat view on the upcoming holiday times check out my blog entry La Ballade des Gens Heureux about  Die Toedliche Doris . If you happ…

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