I took a week off in the Brandenburg countryside in a small village named Gottsdorf. In case I would get a crisis of withdrawal I brought my laptop but nope, I was fine. I did try to check the internet …

My friend Wolfgang Müller gave me a present for the New Year, the novella  The Life of a Good-for-Nothing - or more beautifully in German:  Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts - written by Joseph Freiherr…

On Sunday April 19 the artist Wolfgang Müller biked through Hamburger Bahnhof - The Museum of Contemporary Art. He biked past John Knight's The Right To Be Lazy in the courtyard, then sidetracked …

This year I am teaching art history at an art university. I took the occasion to subscribe for an art course myself as a way of integrating into the community. I picked a beginner course on the stripe…

Trying to get the face right for the photo on my German CV People have asked me how I feel about the new piece that interacts (or not) now with The Right to be Lazy by John Knight in Hamburger Bahn…

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…

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 (…