Berlin Art Lovers: Akane Kimbara - Phenomenology

Berlin Art Lovers: Akane Kimbara - Phenomenology

If you want to see more of Akane Kimbara's art work, check out her website !  Drawing by Akane Kimbara

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Art Blogger of the Week: Nine Yamamoto-Masson in Berlin, Germany

Art Blogger of the Week: Nine Yamamoto-Masson in Berlin, Germany

Photo by Kristy Fenton I'm an ardent follower of Nine Yamamoto-Masson on Facebook where she posts a mixture of political activism, cultural theory, literature, music, art, and her ongoing series…

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Asta Upset: A Cinematic Mindfukc of the Art World

Asta Upset: A Cinematic Mindfukc of the Art World

Let me come clean with some secrets: I’m not so much into movies (somehow film doesn’t bring me the bliss of escapism that other people seem to draw from it) and I rarely go to the theatre (I just ca…

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Art Blogger of the Week: Mark Sheerin in Brighton, UK

Art Blogger of the Week: Mark Sheerin in Brighton, UK

There're many things to love about Mark Sheerin's blog Criticismism . First of all, its title makes you stutter and you can never really get it right. And wouldn't it be great if criticism…

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Hey! Teachers! Leave Them Kids Alone! Art Hopping at the UdK and Weissensee Kunsthochschule

Hey! Teachers! Leave Them Kids Alone! Art Hopping at the UdK and Weissensee Kunsthochschule

First year students' show at UdK I visited the art schools this weekend to see what is coming up. Saturday evening I was at Universität der Kunste where a few studios were closed as a prote…

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Art Blogger of the Week: Mira Schor in New York, USA

Art Blogger of the Week: Mira Schor in New York, USA

I discovered Mira Schor's writing by clicking on a link on Facebook titled "Just a short message from Venus" , which led me to her blog and I was sold. This particular blog post was…

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At Baldauf Writers Residency with Will Furtado

At Baldauf Writers Residency with Will Furtado

I'm back from my writers residency in Bayern. What a luxury it was to just write the whole day from morning till evening. Here is the video I made of my writer colleague Will Furtado finishing his …

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 Writer's Residency in Bavaria

Writer's Residency in Bavaria

I'll be back July 14!

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Civil Courage and Civil Disobedience. On Being Programmatic in Bremen

Civil Courage and Civil Disobedience. On Being Programmatic in Bremen

John Cage,  Writing through the Essay ‘On the Duty of Civil Disobedience’  in Kunsthalle Bremen What does our contemporary art world need? In Hamburger Bahnhof I overheard the director Eugen Blume …

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Art Object of The Week: Sabaya Perfume

Art Object of The Week: Sabaya Perfume

Is smell a thing in the arts? I haven’t encountered it yet, except for Marcel Duchamp’s Belle Haleine  and even there I can’t associate a specific smell to it. Maybe I just don’t know about smell a…

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Art Blogger of the Week: Nicola Carragher in Cork, Ireland

Art Blogger of the Week: Nicola Carragher in Cork, Ireland

Cork? I seem to know Cork although I've never been there. I've heard about it from my friend Sabine Kriebel, who is a professor in the arts at the University College Cork and the writer of a…

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