Don’t get me wrong: I dig the “fake it till you make it” message of Amy Cuddy’s TED-talk . You can fake the self-confident body posture not only until you make it, but until you become it. Nothing wron…

Me at the dinner club, korean barbecue at Arirang, Charlottenburg This might be new to you but the latest trend in town is to be part of a club. I myself actually kind of set this trend in 2014 and i…

I wish art were more like fashion, looking ahead instead of back. While fashion is now busy predicting the trends of 2015, the art world is still going on about the best of 2014. I can’t even remember wh…

Limited Edition Poster of ARTSHO5, Experiment, designed by Kwame Charles, 2014 It’s a fact, isn’t it: Berlin is the hubbub of contemporary art. Other cities have been trying to catch up and even ta…

Gallery hopping has it s ups and down. Last Wednesday it got so down that I had to drink my first glühwein at the pre-Christmas market at Potsdamer Platz. Friday night my vitamin B+C supplements finally…

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…

Laughing is a lot easier when the sun is shining. A little summer show Sorry for Laughing  with artists Ditte   Lyngkaer  Pedersen and Raphael Abrams , which I co-curated with Onika Simon , is opening o…