Art Blogger of the Week: Régine Debatty in Europe and Beyond

Art Blogger of the Week: Régine Debatty in Europe and Beyond

It was artist Anaisa Franco who told me about Régine Debatty's blog with the provoking name we-make-money-not-art . Anaisa works with new technology and Régine exactly covers that niche where ar…

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Guest Writer Claudio Cravero, Venice Biennale II: "All Look The Same"

Guest Writer Claudio Cravero, Venice Biennale II: "All Look The Same"

Claudio Cravero,   curator at the  King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in  Saudi Arabia,   started as a guest writer on this blog with a contribution  about the Icelandic Pavilion. Today he's loo…

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Art Object of the Week: the German Sign Language Video Ad at U6 Friedrichstraße

Art Object of the Week: the German Sign Language Video Ad at U6 Friedrichstraße

I try not to look at advertising in public space because its clichés tend to annoy me. Yet there is one I always look forward to. It’s in the Friedrichstraße subway station U6 and it’s screened every…

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Berlin Art Lovers: Shuai Wang - Quereinsteiger

Berlin Art Lovers: Shuai Wang - Quereinsteiger

Shuai Wang at Galerie Michael Janssen If you follow me on Instagram you might have seen Shuai Wang before in the pictures. We do gallery hopping regularly and we also have an artist studio visit…

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Art Blogger of The Week: Carolina Castro Jorquera in Madrid, Spain

Art Blogger of The Week: Carolina Castro Jorquera in Madrid, Spain

It was the Chilean art historian Ignacio Szmulewicz who told me about the art blogging scene in Chile. He writes for Arte y critica , a printed art magazine in Chile, but there is also the digital art…

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Guest Writer Claudio Cravero: "Art and Politics in Venice? So Far So Close"

Guest Writer Claudio Cravero: "Art and Politics in Venice? So Far So Close"

I'm very excited to feature Claudio Cravero, curator at the  King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in  Saudi Arabia, as a first guest writer on this blog! Claudio and I met for real last week at th…

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Art Blogger of the Week: Flávia Dalla Bernardina in Vitoria, Brazil

Art Blogger of the Week: Flávia Dalla Bernardina in Vitoria, Brazil

I'm frustrated that I don't read Portuguese, but I read some texts in English by Flávia Dalla Bernardina and therefore I can say that she writes poetic thoughts, like, let me quote: "Th…

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Art Bashing at the Venice Biennial 2015

Art Bashing at the Venice Biennial 2015

Central Pavilion, Giardini There was quite some art bashing going on at the opening of the Venice Biennial - a Biennial that promised, under the artistic direction of Okwui Enwezor, to present art …

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Vlogging The Venice Biennial 2015 with Art Critic Will Furtado

Vlogging The Venice Biennial 2015 with Art Critic Will Furtado

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Art Blogger of The Week: Chika Okeke-Agulu, Princeton, USA

Art Blogger of The Week: Chika Okeke-Agulu, Princeton, USA

Do academia and blogging go together? Yes they do, according to Chika Okeke-Agulu, who teaches African art history and theory at Princeton University. This January he published his newest book Postcolo…

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Gallery Weekend Berlin: Behind The Scenes

Gallery Weekend Berlin: Behind The Scenes

Isn’t the gala society section the most fun part of a lifestyle magazine? Com’on, art people, admit it: it’s the very first thing you look for when reading Monopol. Who was invited to the latest art party…

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