The means Eric’s Lamp Shop (Eric Honecker’s Lamp Shop).
Das waren Zeiten. That means those were the days.
A demolished communist palace and other rubble: How Berlin is managing its GDR buildings and monuments – An exhibition commemorates the demolition of the former parliament building in the German capital in 2008, an example of the persistent erasure of traces of socialism in the city.
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.
They’re also allowed in museums here. Well, in this one here in Berlin they are. For a limited time only.
It’s only right once you consider the name of the exhibition: „Wir kommen auf den Hund“ or “we’re going to the dogs.”
„Ein Gag ist das nicht.”
I’m not koala-fied to say.
But I think I’ll have a kodiak arrest if I have to look at anymore photos of Germans posing with polar bears.
Do you get this? Me, neither. But I think I understand this Knut thing a little better now, at least.
But were afraid to ask.
A Rabbi is asked why Jews always answer a question with another question. “Why not?” he replies.
“Für mich gilt jeder als Jude, der meschugge genug ist, sich selbst einen zu nennen.”
Observing Hermann 