Little Thoughts on Art: Did Warhol Meet Picasso?
Andy Warhol loved France, or at least, I know for sure he loved the French language. He had such a good time in Paris exhibiting his Flowers there (I believe it was in 1965) that he decided it would be …
Read moreAndy Warhol in Heipzig, oh sorry, Leipzig!
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September 23, 2016By
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It’s been a few weeks by now and the exhibition has already finished. I’m sorry for that, but I was particularly moved after seeing Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests show in Leipzig. It was nice to stick to…
Read moreGuest Blogger Vanessa Gravenor - Part Deux: Nomadism
Did you ever give residencies, nomadism, and social relations in the art world some critical thought? Art writer and artist Vanessa Gravenor does. If you missed out on the first contribution, check it…
Read moreABC Art fair: Good Crazy Won
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September 19, 2016By
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Roman Signer, Hose, 2015, Photo: Häusler Contemporary I wasn’t feeling it, the Berlin Art Week. The gallery visits, I thought, would be nicer to do on some quiet fall days. I also didn’t make it to …
Read moreLittle Thoughts on Art: I'm Popular
I’ve never been so popular. People are reading my texts by the thousands. That’s the visitors’ rate of the exhibition Das Kapital in Hamburger Bahnhof. Curators Catherine Nichols and Eugen Blume asked…
Read moreLittle Thoughts about Art: Sweat
Sweat is so revealing, isn’t it. It can be the body showing its fear, its anxieties, its arousal. But we never make sweat into a topic, so far as I know, philosophically. Unlike shit or urine, art hasn’…
Read moreSummer Musing: Big or Small
I’m not a fan of Anselm Kiefer’s work. It’s too material loaded for me, too easy somehow: you put a lot of poisonous material on your canvas, add a Paul Celan title, and then it’s about war. But there’s…
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