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- Sep 14, 2015
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 c...
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- Aug 5, 2015
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 experie...
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- Jul 28, 2015
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 14, 2015
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 eve...
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- Jun 26, 2015
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 16, 2015
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 5, 2015
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 faul...
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- May 28, 2015
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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- Mar 15, 2015
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 ve...
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- Feb 26, 2015
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 o...
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- Feb 17, 2015
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 wi...
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- Feb 9, 2015
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, s...
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- Dec 16, 2014
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 3, 2014
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 reason...
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- Nov 23, 2014
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 17, 2014
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 3, 2014
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 Cen...
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- Oct 22, 2014
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 A...
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- Oct 8, 2014
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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