Hurray! The Siegessäule Bridges The Gap Between Man/Woman And Gay/Straight

Hurray! The Siegessäule Bridges The Gap Between Man/Woman And Gay/Straight

F or some reason it is easier to write about things that upset one. The anger makes the blood run faster. The writers block dissolves into thin air. A shortcut between brain and hands produces a s…

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Zeitlos. Art Criticism or How To Chase A New Pig Through The Village

Zeitlos. Art Criticism or How To Chase A New Pig Through The Village

Café Zeitlos Timelessness once used to be a compliment. It no longer is. Recently I sent a writing sample to an art magazine. It got rejected. The chief editor explained to me that my art critici…

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Let's Talk Food. "Hungry City" at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien

Let's Talk Food. "Hungry City" at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien

Berliner Cupcake Where did I get the idea that riding the subway is no fun? I took the subway two days in a row, feeling too lazy for my usual bike ride. Both times exciting things happened.…

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Good News: documenta 13

Good News: documenta 13

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Photo: Eduardo Knapp Humor and art are often seen as contradictory in Germany. The artist works in all seriousness metaphorically and metaphysically in-depth. Yet eve…

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Keep It Moving. Rüdiger Preisler, Joseph Beuys, and Dirk Wauters

Keep It Moving. Rüdiger Preisler, Joseph Beuys, and Dirk Wauters

Görlitzer Park I kind of took a break this August, at least from staring at a computer screen. Unfortunately, I did not use the free time to have plenty of exciting adventures in exciting places th…

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The Right To Be Lazy. John Knight and Siegfried Kracauer

The 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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Good Moves / Bad Words. Justin F. Kennedy, Ali Mongo and Kate Hers

Good Moves / Bad Words. Justin F. Kennedy, Ali Mongo and Kate Hers

Kate Hers' "deutschsprachliche Projekt", 2012 In Berlin I used to participate in a great hip hop course taught by Justin F. Kennedy . Justin always reminds me of my one-year stay in…

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Short and Sharp. Andy Warhol, Dieter Roth, Valeska Gert and Colleen Becker

Short and Sharp. Andy Warhol, Dieter Roth, Valeska Gert and Colleen Becker

Valeska Gert's advertisment in Aller Lüste Anfang. Das 7. Buch der Werbung, 1971 Yesterday I met my friend Elias on the street, who was waiting for his pizza to get ready. He was a little tir…

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How Dare You! A Review on Yoko Ono's TO THE LIGHT Show in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung

How Dare You! A Review on Yoko Ono's TO THE LIGHT Show in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung

Reading the Sueddeutsche Zeitung As you know I am the proud owner of a Yoko Ono art piece. Reading the German newspaper this morning, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung , I got upset by a critique on Yo…

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Who is Marion? An interview with Wolfgang Müller

Who is Marion? An interview with Wolfgang Müller

As you might have noticed in my blog, I've spend these last weeks in Iceland with Wolfgang Müller. Wolfgang Müller, Berlin artist and author, visited Iceland for the first tim…

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