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Lives and Works in Berlin | Stage your Melodrama: An Elmgreen and a Dragset
When the art historians start treading through Berlin’s turn-of-the-millennium years to chart artists’ march to Neukölln, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset‘s studio will be a main stop for tea and...
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Lives and Works in Berlin: January Jones
January isn’t often a big month for art, and the same usually goes for Berlin, but this year, galleries seem to be pushing things a bit further to present exciting shows, even if a majority of them...
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Lives and Works in Berlin: Spring Thaw
I fly back to Berlin tomorrow, finally ending a prolonged Kerouac walk-through of mid-sized southern cities; a spring break for the “mild girl.” During my Texas stay, a sun constitutional in Austin...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | Absalon at Kunst-Werke
Absalon, "Modèles des cellules habitables," 1991 Photo: Ethan Hayes-Chute. It was back in 2005 when I first encountered the work of Absalon at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof in a exhibition called Fast...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | rocks/mud/linoleum: sculpture between sites
Richard Long, "Berlin Circle," exhibition view, Hamburger Bahnhof. Photo: Anna Milandri. Richard Long’s artistic medium, since the 1960s, has been walking. On his walks all over the world, he uses...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | Fratty Art
With its manic art world mingling, Gallery Weekend in Berlin can seem like a frat party with more tote bags. It is Berlin’s promenade into spring and is full of amateur cyclists, bunker parties and...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | Based in Berlin: Best of
I’ve been thinking about Based In Berlin for weeks. And while it’s been difficult to keep my pretentious guffaws in check, I have recognized that the show tackles the formidable (unfeasible?) but...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon. "Chapter VII, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters," 2008-2011. © Taryn Simon. Taryn Simon‘s solo-exhibition, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters (2008-2011) at the...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | The Mystery of Anna Pavlova
Film still from "Anna Pavlova" (2011), directed by Theo Solnik. Courtesy the artist. Anna Pavlova Lives in Berlin depicts the poetic and aggressive “Russian party queen,” of the same iconic name....
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Lives and Works in Berlin | Brenna Murphy and the Future
Installation view, <~self~nesting~sensr~> 2012, courtesy the Future Gallery. <~self~nesting~sensr~>, the current show at The Future Gallery, brings into real time the digitally...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | Chicago’s Big Youth in Berlin
"Big Youth II," installation view, Jonathan Gardner + Betsy Odom, courtesy Bourourina Gallery. For the past few weeks, Berlin has been a whirring art world engine as Gallery Weekend and the Berlin...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | Roman Ondák at the Deutsche Guggenheim
Roman Ondák. "do not walk outside this area," 2012. Installation view, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin. Photo: Jens Ziehe. Courtesy the artist. This week, I took my visiting mother and sister to the Roman...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | John Holten + Broken Dimanche Press + The Readymades
"Un Coup de 3 Dés," by Brian Larosche. Image courtesy Broken Dimanche Press. I could write multiple portraits of John Holten, Berlin-based _________. One as the publisher of Broken Dimanche Press, a...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | Berlin Gallery Roundup
Kazuko Miyamoto. "Live End Dream No," 2012. Image courtesy Exile Gallery. Kassel may be this continent’s art world sweetheart until September, but Berlin, in a petty rage directed towards its pretty,...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | Art Hangover, Berlin
Michael Sailstorfer. “Forst (01),” 2010. Image courtesy www.stillinberlin.com. I’m still trying to process Berlin Art Week, which took place mid-September all across the city, and which, by all...
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Lives and Works in Berlin | The Evolution of Mike: Michael Smith in Berlin
I didn’t expect Mike, the prototypical everyman alter ego created by Michael Smith in 1979 to age, but thought instead that he might persist in the time-vacuum of the best serial comic characters: a...
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