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Jack is Back - Jack Whittens Jack’s Jacks am Museum Hamburger Bahnhof
(Berlin.) Der Hamburger Bahnhof ist ein modernes Museum und als solches natürlich den Trends der Zeit verpflichtet. Erfolgte im...
Christian Hain
Apr 3, 2019
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Pablo Picasso Visits Plattner in Potsdam. Picasso – The Late Work at Museum Par- no: Barberini!
(Potsdam.) Back in Potsdam, “Berlin’s Versailles”, and the mix of historicising new and once-destroyed-then-restored-thus-somehow-still-a...
Christian Hain
Mar 20, 2019
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Pablo Picasso besucht Plattner in Potsdam. – Das späte Werk am Museum Barberini
(Potsdam.) Zurück in Potsdam, dem „Versailles von Berlin“, und die Mischung aus historisierenden Neubauten und wiederaufgebauten Palästen...
Christian Hain
Mar 20, 2019
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Zwei Große Italiener... Mantegna und Bellini an der Gemäldegalerie
(Berlin.) Mit Mantegna und Bellini zeigt die Berliner Gemäldegalerie – “eine der führenden Gemäldesammlungen Europas” - ein Serie A Spiel...
Christian Hain
Mar 14, 2019
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Mantegna and Bellini, Two Italian Greats at Gemäldegalerie Berlin
(Berlin.) With Mantegna and Bellini, Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie - “one of Europe’s leading picture galleries” as they nowadays style...
Christian Hain
Mar 12, 2019
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Phantastische Tierwesen und wie sie zu malen sind – Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald am Bröhan Museum
(Berlin.) Es wird hoffentlich niemand protestieren, beginnt dieser Artikel auf einem wenig bekannten Blog mit den Worten, „ein wenig...
Christian Hain
Mar 6, 2019
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Fantastic Beasts and How to Paint Them: Ilna Ewers-Wunderwald at Bröhan Museum
(Berlin.) We hope, nobody will take offence if this little known blog writes, a little known museum is on a mission to make a little...
Christian Hain
Mar 6, 2019
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Felsen, Glas und Leinwand: Bunte Steine am Georg Kolbe Museum
(Berlin.) Das Georg-Kolbe-Museum residiert in einer der wohlhabenderen Gegenden Berlins, die es tatsächlich auch gibt wie leicht vergißt,...
Christian Hain
Mar 1, 2019
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Glass, Rocks, and Canvas: Colourful Stones at Georg Kolbe Museum
(Berlin.) Georg Kolbe Museum resides in an affluent Western borough of Berlin. You almost forget those exist, too, when staying too much...
Christian Hain
Feb 27, 2019
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Skulptur, eine Inselbegabung: Objects of Wonder – die Tate Collection am Palais Populaire
(Berlin.) in den Worten der Direktorin der Deutsche Bank Kunstsammlung, Frau von Reichenbach: „Die ersten hundert Tage im Palais...
Christian Hain
Feb 26, 2019
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Berlinale 2019 – Leftovers, or: The Best of the Rest
(Berlin.) What We Left Unfinished is not only the title of a film, but also our motto of the day. Apart from all those films in and...
Christian Hain
Feb 21, 2019
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Berlinale 2019 – Day 10: Fin.
(Berlin.) And that’s it, Berlinale 2019 is history, the 69th overall and the 19th, and last ever, directed by Diether Kosslick. The grand...
Christian Hain
Feb 17, 2019
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Berlinale 2019 – Days 8 and 9: Chinese Families, an OST without a Film, and Brazil Beyond Football.
(Berlin.) Wang Xiaoshuai’s So Long, My Son is a Chinese family drama of three hours, and the pace is slow. An intense film, and not easy...
Christian Hain
Feb 16, 2019
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Berlinale 2019 - Day 7: Spanish Lesbians, Artists and Jews in Paris. "Elisa and Marcela",
(Berlin.) The last - and only - time, I’ve seen Agnès Varda was at the opening of her gallery show in Paris a couple of years ago. It was...
Christian Hain
Feb 14, 2019
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Berlinale 2019 – Day 6: Trash From Germany, Italy Reclaiming the Mafia, and Nobody’s Going to Syria
(Berlin.) Angela Schanelec’s I was at Home, But starts as a silent movie without intertitles or music. As soon as there is dialogue, you...
Christian Hain
Feb 12, 2019
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Berlinale 2019 - Day 5: The Ghastly Arctic, Agitprop, and Anatolia. "Ghost Town Anthology"
(Berlin.) The best words to describe Denis Côté’s Ghost Town Anthology appear in the film itself: “You don’t need to be scared!...
Christian Hain
Feb 11, 2019
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Berlinale 2019 – Day 4: They all have a Cross to Bear, She, and He, and They too!
(Berlin.) Returning home from another unsuccessful job interview at a sweatshop in the Macedonian outback, overweight, 32 years old, a...
Christian Hain
Feb 10, 2019
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Berlinale 2019 – Day 3: Business, Scenery, and a Homicidal Hamburger
(Berlin.) A new day, a new psycho-drama. Austrian language film The Ground Beneath My Feet might have been named for some well hidden...
Christian Hain
Feb 9, 2019
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Berlinale 2019 - Day 2: Don’t Run From Your Issues – Not Even to Mongolia
(Berlin.) Remember that film yesterday, The Kindness of Strangers? There was this family father having serious psychological issues......
Christian Hain
Feb 8, 2019
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Berlinale 2019 – Day 1: A Lone, Sentimentalist, Film. Keep those Tissues Ready
(Berlin.) And so it starts again,... and ends. Berlinale LXIX - sorry, still in that Super Bowl mood: Berlinale 69 - is the eighteenth...
Christian Hain
Feb 7, 2019
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