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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
You Really Don’t Look Your Age! Thirty Years of Cartier Foundation
(Paris.) If Fondation Cartier were a wearer of Cartier jewellery, this would be the time to stop counting years and celebrate her 29th...
Put Them Up Against the Wall: Le Mur at La Maison Rouge
(Paris.) La Maison Rouge, as we all know, is the pastime of choice for supermarket heir Antoine de Galbert. His foundation either...
Under the Skin: Tattoo Art and Tiki (no Taka) at Musée du quai Branly
(Paris.) Opened in 2006 as the pet project of President Chirac, Musée du Quai Branly tries hard to be the 21th Century version of an...
Martial Arts at Centre Pompidou
(Paris.) Let’s start with our apologies: If you’ve clicked the title in hope to read about the free performances given at Centre Pompidou...
The (W)Hole Art of Lucio Fontana at the MAMVP
Paris. In a big retrospective show, the MAMVP (Municipal Modern Art Museum of Paris) presents Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) as an artist who...
White Space, No Cubes: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s “Strange City” at Monumenta Grand Palais
(Paris.) Earlier editions of Grand Palais’ Monumenta series have brought us excellent installations from the likes of Richard Serra...
Sky's the Limit? L'état du ciel at Palais de Tokyo
(Paris.) Previously on PdT: In February, the Palais de Tokyo presented the first instalment of its exhibition series L’état du ciel (The...
Art and Press: Martin Parr at the MEP vs. Henri Cartier-Bresson at the Centre Pompidou
(Paris.) Two heavyweights are competing for the most successful photo show this spring: In the red corner the “Godfather of...
Bare Naked Sculptures: Robert Mapplethorpe at Grand Palais
(Paris.) The Grand Palais completes the Parisian photo circuit with a show dedicated to Robert Mapplethorpe, that adds to Cartier-Bresson...
Paris, Your Collectors. Gagosian and Marmottan
(Paris.) It’s common knowledge that the importance of the classic European model of publicly financed art museums is constantly...
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