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documenta diaries I: press opening
For the first installment of documenta diaries…here is George Baker’s "The Globalization of the False: A Response to Okwui Enwezor" (2004). Much of the work seen thus far at the German quinquennial, having liberated itself from theory and history, is therefore very...
‘Animaloculomat’ • Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Already by 1909 Jakob Johann von Uexküll had, in Umwelt und Innenwelt der Tiere, given a great deal of consideration to the „Innenleben“ of animals. For Franz Marc this led to the question of how a horse, an eagle, a deer, or a dog saw and experienced the world,...
Franz Marc painting still missing at Haus am Waldsee
"Vermisst: Der Turm der blauen Pferde von Franz Marc" at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin I really wanted to like Haus am Waldsee’s thematic “Vermisst: Der Turm der blauen Pferde von Franz Marc,” but was also nervous about all the expectations of the referenced Franz Marc...
Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim
This post goes with a book review of the exhibition catalogue Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim (2017) for Museum Bookstore which is posted here and also follows in a slightly different form below. It has been one of life's great pleasures to see Franz Marc's...
Botanic Gardens in the Volksstaat Hessen
Over the Easter weekend I went on several hikes with my friends Wiebke and Luisa, which during the winter involved getting lost and crossing the partially iced-over Fulda. These walks were not as perilous though there was some Osternausflippen on the tiny Cantus train...
Ars Graphica Deutschland at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt
Ars Graphica is a group of mostly European scholars who study prints but also photography. The pan-European organization also has a few Gesamtstaaten. Ars Graphica Deutschland recently branched off and began its own activities. The first...
Max Beckmann in New York: Exhibition Visit and Book Review
While I was in New York City for the College Art Association meeting – more on this next post – I was really busy and also sick the entire time. Fortunately though I did get to go to a few museums, and a significant highlight was the Max Beckmann in New York...
August Macke and Franz Marc: An Artist Friendship
Book Review: August Macke and Franz Marc: An Artist Friendship Catalog of an exhibition held at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, 25 September 2014 – 4 January 2015; and at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, 28 January – 3 May 2015; 359 pages with many...
Franz Marc’s and August Macke’s Paradies: We Meet in Münster
Whatever happens in the future, my time in Münster will be the happiest I can ever remember. I was there for several weeks and finally had a substantial Paradies mural Franz Marc and August Macke made together in Macke’s upstairs atelier in Bonn in 1912. The mural was...
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