Art

Dürer designed an amazing monument for the vanquished peasants.

Wanted to show the kids some chiaroscuro for their art class about light and dark tomorrow and ran through some of the all time greats from Caravaggio. They were particularly impressed by Holofernes being beheaded.

https://parisinstitute.org/the-real-academy-in-exile/#ref1

[Cryptoart is] a crime against humanity.

The government has made it clear that its main purpose is not to save lives or protect the vulnerable. It exists to ensure that assets never depreciate and that wealth is never redistributed downward. Capital has never seemed so fictitious.

A very long but quite inspired series of conceptual visual spatializations of the internet.

“In the new city of the supertalls, man is born free but everywhere is in salad chains. The people are being made skinny to fit the skinniness of the buildings to come.”

I had no idea but it seems Berlin has a booming Chinese art scene.

I strolled through the massive exhibition ‘Welt am Draht’ at Leipziger Strasse this weekend. This is a selection of video art from the massive Julia Stoschek Collection exhibited in the former Czech Cultural center.

Today I got a tour of the Käthe Kollwitz museum in Berlin. I had wanted to visit this museum for a while but this proved the concrete reason to finally go (though the café next door makes some mean pancakes if you find yourself in the area).

A couple of weeks ago already, James Bridle opened his first solo show The Glomar Response at NOME gallery here in Berlin. The opening was attended by more or less everybody I got to know when I first got to Berlin, a reunion of sorts.

Tonight I saw the magical Symphonie Cinétique works at MADE in Berlin.

De gasten van Monochrom zijn geweldig. Als je er toch niks mee doet, kun je nu bij hen je ziel verkopen; en nog voor een aardig prijsje ook.

En niet te vergeten de blije kerstboodschap van de vriendelijke mensen van Monochrom:

We staan aan de vooravond van een Rembrandtjaar —Rembrandt’s 400ste geboortejaar— waarin een complete hausse op gaat treden rondom een van de grootste kunstenaars die Nederland ooit heeft gekend.

There is a very cool event called Ultrasound in Huddersfield going on right now and just seeing this installation could make me hop over there if it was at all realistic.

Nog steeds druk. Wel schitterende kunst bij Brechtje.

Het is inderdaad een complot. Op dit moment is er dus in Boijmans een tentoonstelling over Dalí en er komt binnenkort in de Kunsthal een tentoonstelling over Gaudí. Allebei in Rotterdam, hier vlak om de hoek.

Het nieuwe gebouw is open, zie flash (via). Die kunstwerken die je ziet in de presentatie heb ik in Berlijn gezien! Nu het gebouw nog.

Ik moest vandaag onwillekeurig denken aan de werken van Richter die ik van de zomer in Berlijn heb gezien. Grote indrukwekkende zwart-wit afdrukken en echt bizar.