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…
Read moreHip Hip...! Birthday Celebrations of Artists - Dead or Alive
Celebrating Andy Warhol's 85th birthday. Earth cam image from New York Times I always refuse to memorize the dates of birth or death or an artist. Although it is a frequent question during gu…
Read moreChristine 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…
Read more"thank you silence." Ugo Rondinone in M - Museum Leuven
Ugo Rondinone, the river , 2011. © studio rondinone I made a detour to M - Museum Leuven on my way back to Brussels airport, Belgium. It was the third time that I visited the museum and each time …
Read moreThe Whole Earth. Or Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?
On Sunday I went to the last day of the show The Whole Earth in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. A fascinating topic, and definitely a lot of fascinating material to discover in the exhibition. Y…
Read moreMemorabilia. Backstage at the Art Bookstore
It was in the Strassenfeger , a Berlin magazine of the homeless, that I read the best review about the current Martin Kippenberger show in Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum of Contemporary Art. I like the writ…
Read moreTimeless - The Storming of the Bastille. Texte zur Kunst and The Right to Be Lazy
One my favorites pieces in Hamburger Bahnhof is The Right To Be Lazy by the Californian artist John Knight. I’ve written about it here and more recently here in my blog. To recapitulate shortly: It w…
Read moreThe Right To Be Lazy. John Knight and Siegfried Kracauer
John Knight, The Right To Be Lazy, Berlin, since 2009. The first thing I do upon arriving in Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum of Contemporary Art in Berlin, is to check out my favorite piece of art (…
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