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Schinkel Pavillon with Paul McCarthy, Unplugged
(Berlin.) Some say, if Potsdamer Platz is Berlin’s Manhattan, the area surrounding Museumsinsel is a mix of Vegas and Monte Carlo, minus...
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Sep 18, 2015
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The Love of a Square: Piet Mondrian at Martin-Gropius-Bau
(Berlin.) Martin-Gropius-Bau’s latest exhibition will confound all those who knew Piet Mondrian only as de Stijl-ish master of sparsely...
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Sep 14, 2015
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Im or Ex, pressing for -isms at Nationalgalerie Berlin
(Berlin.) You certainly know IMAX, the supersized movie format invented by a Canadian company that offers expressively impressive...
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Aug 5, 2015
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Art, The Business Class: Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle vs. Daimler Contemporary
(Berlin.) A Mercedes and a loan from Deutsche Bank: 98.5 per cent of artists (and critics) will never get near either. Yet, both emblems...
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Jul 28, 2015
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Situations at Martin-Gropius-Bau
(Berlin.) We like ---, we really do. We like the British-German artist’s approach to the art market, selling six-figure works without...
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Jul 14, 2015
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Ouch, that hurt! War and Violence at KW Institute for Contemporary Art
(Berlin.) With Fire and Forget. On Violence, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the cosy industrial venue in Berlin’s no-longer-that-hip...
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Jun 26, 2015
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Waiting, Mountains, Music and a Whale. Museum Hamburger Bahnhof
(Berlin.) Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin’s most important museum for modern and contemporary art, dedicates a show to Black Mountain College....
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Jun 16, 2015
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Rebuilding Wurstropolis – Berlinische Galerie Returns with Architecture
(Berlin.) Some say Berlin is great, “but maybe a bit too self-centred”, and Berlinische Galerie’s reopening won’t change the idea. A...
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Jun 5, 2015
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Bananas for Berlin. Aping Culture at HKW
(Berlin.) I know exactly what you’re thinking: Germany, an institution called “House of the Cultures of the World” (Haus der Kulturen der...
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May 28, 2015
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Text to Image, The Jeu de Paume with Florence Henri and Taryn Simon
(Paris.) Continuing to cover all of photography’s styles and eras, Jeu de Paume shows Florence Henri and Taryn Simon, two artists with...
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Mar 15, 2015
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A Parisian Revolution: Le Plateau Goes Painting
(Paris.) Over the years, Le Plateau has earned a reputation for some of the most mind bustling, abstracty conceptualistiest exhibitions...
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Feb 26, 2015
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Contemporary Chic. Louis Vuitton Foundation Paris
(Paris.) Last autumn, Bernard Arnault, billionaire owner of LVMH (Luis-Vuitton-Moët-Hennessy – and that’s only the brands they started...
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Feb 17, 2015
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Pablo’s back in Paris – The Reopened Picasso Museum
(Paris.) The renovation of Parisian Musée Picasso, established in 1985 and owning the world’s largest collection of the artist’s œuvre,...
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Feb 9, 2015
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King Koons on Pompidou’s Top Floor
(Paris.) Love it or loathe it, but Jeff Koons has well secured his place in art history. Koons started, or at least spearheaded something...
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Dec 16, 2014
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Paris: A Threesome with Geishas, Sade and Kama Sutra. Or Say: Sex Sells
(Paris.) Long ago I gave up visiting the Musée d'Orsay, and decided to consider it permanently closed. This I did not for the same...
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Dec 3, 2014
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Lies: Stan Douglas at the Fruitmarket Gallery
(Edinburgh.) Uir joorney tae th' UK teuk us faurder north than juist Lunnon, as we gaed oan tae Auld Reekie fur th' Fruitmarkit Gailerie...
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Nov 23, 2014
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Tuttle’s Texts and Textiles Take Tate’s Turbine Hall, Whitechapel too
(London.) Lately focusing on Paris, ArtLife Magazine still leaves France from time to time, for example to see what’s going on in the UK....
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Nov 17, 2014
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Marcel Readily Made Paintings, Even. Marcel Duchamp at Centre Pompidou
(Paris.) L.H.O.O.Q. Not to confuse with L.V.M.H., the name of Bernard Arnault’s little shop of luxury, that is indirectly honoured on...
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Nov 3, 2014
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The Godzilla of Drawing: Hokusai at Grand Palais
(Paris.) “Evening, and a lowly servant sat beneath the Rashomon, waiting for the rain to end.” These are the first words from Ryunosuke...
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Oct 22, 2014
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Big Girls: Niki de Saint Phalle at Grand Palais
(Paris.) It was a more than slightly embarrassing moment when, having lived for years in France and deeming myself no longer a stammering...
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Oct 8, 2014
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