World of Arts  Magazine

(Berlin.) Hamburger Bahnhof Museum’s newly appointed director is not one of the grey gentlemen in black high street suits so typical for...

(Berlin.) Art fairs are not the only thing happening during Berlin Art Week, there are gallery openings, conferences, institution...

(Berlin.) Remember we told you there was no (important) art fair in Berlin? Instead, we said, Berlin has the Gallery Weekend (link), a...

(Berlin.) Sometimes, people like to be left in the dark. It admittedly happens a lot in contemporary art. Sometimes even literally. You...

(Berlin.) Another day at Gemäldegalerie, and they work hard to maintain their reputation of being the most annoying art venue in Berlin....

(Berlin.) It’s that time of year again - even if you can’t tell it by the Berlin weather, still hoping for that climate change to speed...

(Berlin.) Berlin Biennale is not your average biennale. Founded in 1998 by the art triumvirate Biesenbach/Obrist/Spector, today it is...

(Paris.) Palais de Tokyo is always worth a visit, and this summer even more so if you’re a tourist stressed out from running around Paris...

(Paris.) If by accident you have an inside contact from the secretive circle celebrating Fondation Cartier’s openings, please consider...

(Paris.) Not far from the river, set high on a hill overlooking Tuileries Garden, the Jeu de Paume was not forced to flee the Seine...

(Switzerland.) We went to Zurich for the latest edition of Manifesta, a Pan European Biennale that has been touring the continent for the...

(Paris.) The Seine flooding this June threatened several museums along the river. The Louvre and the Orsay decided to close for a week,...

(Berlin.) There’s a new kid in town, one more collector to brag about his possessions. And great they are, that much we admit. The...

(Berlin.) We knew beforehand what to write. We even had prepared some lines: “We cannot recommend anyone to visit Martin-Gropius-Bau as...

(Berlin.) We came back for another show at Daimler Contemporary, and on second look we like Potsdamer Platz a lot better, not least since...

(Berlin.) And suddenly, there was the sun again. The long winter finally gone, spring has arrived in Berlin. The first week of May even...

(Berlin.) There is no truly important art fair in Berlin, and at the same time, the city hosts the world’s largest art fair, with the...

(Berlin.) We trust you’ve all watched that first episode of the new Game of Thrones season. The day after, me Collectors Room opened its...

(Berlin.) Some days, you just need a little fun in your life. Take last Thursday for example: I was tired. I had had to get up early to...

(Berlin.) We visited Schinkel Pavillon again, and this time we’ve been prepared. The area still looks like a ground zero, if anything,...

(Berlin.) At some point during a visit to European Manifesta Biennale, filmmaker-slash-artist Julian Rosefeldt was struck with an idea:...

​(Berlin.) Today’s show is special: Martin-Gropius-Bau shows forgeries of unsigned works from unknown artists. Artists with a very...

(Berlin.) We will not stop visiting KW Institute, despite almost every Berliner telling us how much better it was years ago. True, their...

(Berlin.) Should you happen to have an abandoned industrial site or two in your real estate portfolio – located in or around some...

(Berlin.) Kulturforum is the name given to a cultural hotchpotch some hundred metres off Potsdamer Platz. There, in a no man’s land...

(Berlin.) 11 a. m., the end of November, and winter’s come to Berlin. Through icy winds we carve our way to Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle...

(Berlin.) True, we’ve been talking about Guns’n’Roses lately, and reading today’s headline, those of you still in early nineties mode...

(Berlin.) First finding of the day: People in charge of KW Institute are old enough to remember a 1987 Guns’n’Roses song. This is not a...

(Berlin.) Apart from all the events, institutional openings and art fairs (no link, as not worthy a critique), autumn brings some great...

(Berlin.) “Schrauben-Würth” (“Würth of Screws”), Mr. Reinhold Würth is a famed German businessman, his eponymous company the world market...