We wish we had been there: British artist Jeremy Deller invited to a life drawing class at the New York Academy of Art, with Iggy Pop, no less, posing in the nude.
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Constantly rubbing my eyes when I discovered a collection of the legendary art magazine Parkett in a small Spanish town called Cuenca this week:
The Parkett magazine was found in Zürich in 1984 by a group of friends, with the idea of generating an open exchange between artists and writers on art in Europe and the [...]
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
‘…putting out there the possibility of looking different!’
Tilda Swinton on the influence of David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
In the world of unending terror, recently, photographer and video artist Leila Alaoui is killed… The artist was commissioned to work on a series about women rights in Burkina Faso, where the evil attack took place. Her series The Maroccans depicts cultural diversity of Alaoui’s Morocco. Rest in Peace.
Reminiscent of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, David Bowie is genderless and belongs to a time that is beyond our perception… A sad day, indeed. Rest in Stars!
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Despite being in 21st century, unfortunately, certain misconceptions about women still linger in the air. As most of us know, one of the fields that is strongly male dominated is film industry. I remember a friend’s struggle, when she decided to be a DOP: “You cannot carry that camera, it is heavy.”
Recently, a long list [...]
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Contemporary painting, predominantly quiet landscapes that seem more like mindscapes. Suet Yi Chan has exhibited internationally and is continuously showing at galleries in Berlin where she currently resides. At the time, Suet or Snowy as she also calls herself, is working on new artworks for the upcoming year. Until then, rest your eyes on these.
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Sometimes things can be so easy:
Winter > Christmas > Presents > Books > Friends with Books.
Friends with books indeed, and we expect plenty of both this weekend. We look forward to seeing you there.
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Friends with Books
Opening: Friday, 11 December 2015 / 18–20h
Saturday & Sunday: 11–19h
Hamburger Bahnhof
Invalidenstraße 50–51
10557 Berlin
Facebook Event
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Peaches – Rub (Uncensored) from Peaches on Vimeo.
In Taschen’s Erotica Universalis, there are several depictions of erotic peeing, called Urolagnia. People with joyful faces, pee on their partners – women or men… Several artists have been using ‘peeing’ in a political manner. One of them is the legendary Peaches. Things go queerly wild in [...]
