That means high culture.
And in Germany that means you have to be high to think this stuff up.
A nude visit to the museum? That’s exactly what’s possible on two dates at Stuttgart’s Haus der Geschichte, and it’s even expressly encouraged. Guests can not only explore the exhibition, but also enjoy curator tours and performances.
But this time without the rap sheet.
Berlin pays tribute to Christo’s iconic ‘Wrapped Reichstag’ – Thirty years ago, Germany’s parliament building “disappeared” under silver fabric for two weeks. The work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude is now celebrated with a light installation.
For limited intelligence, maybe.
Want a limited edition artwork tattooed on your skin? Berlin is the place to go – The city’s tattoo studios are booming while the art world flounders. Under a new initiative, buyers receive exclusive rights to an artist’s new design, and the artist receives 50% of the profit
That means waste management.
And some waste managers really mean business over here.
A work of art by the “Sprayer of Zurich” at the Museum Church of St. Cecilia in Cologne has already been restored once. Now the spray-painted skeleton by Harald Naegeli has to be renewed once again – because workers overdid it with the cleaning.
And this guy didn’t get away with it.
But nice try anyway.
German gallery fires employee for hanging own art in exhibition – A modern art gallery in Germany has fired an employee after discovering the budding artist had hung his own work in an exhibition.
The 51-year-old man had drilled two holes in a wall to mount his painting in Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne.
And I have the unfair advantage of not knowing anything about art.
William Blake’s Universe review – polymath’s paintings are outclassed by the Germans.
A wide-ranging exhibition on the English mystic makes unfortunate comparisons with his European contemporaries who, it turns out, are the far superior Romantics…
“Barry was hid. I am hid”, wrote Blake of their common struggle against the art establishment – but he probably didn’t even know his German contemporaries, Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich, existed. Runge scrutinises himself with sickly melancholy while Friedrich depicts himself with a bandaged eye, not covering any physical injury but suggesting his wounded soul.
And sometimes you can’t get away with it.
Israel, Jews voice ‘disgust’ over antisemitic imagery at German art festival – Hateful caricatures feature at Documenta art fair, despite controversy; German culture minister urges curators to ‘draw the necessary conclusions.’
“Artistic freedom ends where xenophobia begins.”
Graffiti or culture?
Berlin show pays homage to 50 years of graffiti culture – One of the longest open-air exhibitions, which celebrates 50 years of graffiti history, opened Thursday in Berlin’s Kurfürstendamm boulevard.
Spanning a 1.2-kilometer strip of the well-known avenue, “All we wrote – the Passion of Graffiti” is a journey through the history of graffiti culture, from its marginal beginnings in New York in the 1970s to its rise as a “cool” and “mainstream” art-from in the age of social media.
That means corona-tired.
And who isn’t coronamüde these days?
The never-ending game of Regulation Roulette has resulted in an array of responses across Berlin and its many different art scenes. The overall effect is a pervasive sense of coronamüde (literally “corona-tired”) but, beyond that—as gallerist Tanja Wagner put it—“everyone has a completely different take on the situation.”
How could you not? But some of this older stuff might still be of value to someone, one would think.
“Can I toss this or is it part of the exhibition?”
German police say 17th century paintings found in highway dumpster – An art expert has concluded that the paintings by Pietro Belloti and Samuel van Hoogstraten are originals.
Observing Hermann 