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

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…

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…

On Friday night I went to the opening of Kimsooja at Kewenig Gallery. It was very hot and I had a dog. Also, Kewenig is kind of in the middle of nowhere. When I arrived, there was a small paper on the c…

When the pandemic started in 2020, I bought a Solidarity Poster from Südblock. There were many posters to choose from but the choice was easily made. I have always wanted an Isa Genzken. Her unconventio…

A beautiful gift founds its way to my home: the fourth volume of Roman Signer's catalogue raisonné , 2002-2018. It is big and heavy as any catalogue raisonné should be. On its cover, a photo shows …

I try to be a good host for my guests. This summer guest is Otto. Months before Otto arrived, I started to study a piano piece that I could play for him upon arrival. When I finally performed it, I still …

Disclaimer: I didn't make it inside Hans Sharoun's atelier. But I was admiring it from the outside, looking up to the studio on the eight floor of an apartment block, built in the 1950s in  Char…