World of Arts  Magazine

(Berlin.) Who in and out of the artworld would deny that we live in decidedly materialist times? It's not different in Berlin than...

(Berlin.) Day-to-day being confronted with the apalling ugliness of Berlin, how many times have we not mentally quoted James Cameron's...

written in October 2021 (Paris.) For various reasons, getting into the mood proved kind of hard when I visited Damien Hirst's first ever...

written in October 2021 and first published on newartexaminer.net (Paris.) You know how it is when a close relation has passed away:...

(Berlin.) Mother Nature is a busy person(-inifaction) taking care of many things, from microscopic life forms regulating the...

This text was written in February 2021. An abridged version has first been published in print by the New Art Examiner. "Life is finite."...

The first scenes of Alonso Ruizpalacios' Una película de policías ("A Cop Movie") feel very conventional, as the camera takes us on a...

First of all, let's ignore that elephant, well: bear, in the room. This year is different: Not only that Berlinale streamed online, or...

1. Children's TV or Magical Realism, both? Petite Maman ("Little Mommy") is yet another French movie in Berlinale's selection. Also yet...

1) The Natural Light is very dark Wintertime in Hungary, or Russia, Ukraine, some place in that vast region, we (ignorantly) like to call...

(Berlin.) Originally scheduled for February when it had to be postponed for the well known circumstances, Berlinale, the Berlin Film...

first published on newartexaminer.net (Berlin.) It’s all very confusing indeed, and I don’t mean that virus thing, no: even before that...

first published on newartexaminer.net (Berlin.) Quite unexpectedly, a visitor’s first thought upon entering Katharina Grosse’s single...

(Berlin.) Remember that movie The Cabin in the Woods? It got kind of a cult following among horror/comedy fans, but rest assured:...

first published on newartexaminer.net This text has been written before the artist's passing in May. (Berlin.) Since early May, Berlin...

(Berlin.) Entering Otobong Nkanga's show at Gropius Bau, we step right into a Zen-like stone garden, feeling anxious if this is indeed...

(Berlin.) Having been closed for nearly two months “on account of the current situation”, Martin Gropius Bau reopened in May, extending...

(Berlin.) This first weekend in May was supposed to host Berlin Gallery Weekend 2020 which, of course fell victim to the “virus crisis”....

(Berlin.) Throwback to November 2019, the weather in Berlin was the same as now, Wuhan only a city in China, and you could sip a Corona...

(Potsdam.) The Barberini invited, and everybody came. We’ve hardly seen an art related press conference in Berlin that crowded before, so...