Tag: contemporary
Contemporary witness – homeless in the perpetrator country – district of Munich
Rachel Salamander was born in 1949 as the daughter of two Holocaust survivors in a camp for so-called displaced persons in Deggendorf. She grew up homeless in a camp in…
Contemporary history in Bavaria: The fate of the Scholl family – Munich
When Hans and Sophie Scholl’s parents arrived worriedly at Munich Central Station on February 22, 1943, the trial of the People’s Court in the Palace of Justice had already begun.…
On the occasion of the White Night, our readers recount their encounter with works of contemporary art
“It’s ugly and it’s expensive. This is, in essence, what an overwhelming majority (in every sense of the word) of Internet users 20 minutes think of contemporary art. At least…
Contemporary witnesses report – “Those who don’t think are thrown out” – Ebersberg
Who was Joseph Beuys? Inventor of the fat corner? Provocateur? The man in the felt hat? Avant-garde? Voice of the sixty-eight? Artist? Visionary? Total work of art? All of these…
Contemporary history as a collage: “February 33 – The winter of literature” – culture
For some years now, books have been popular that look at historical events as if through a prism, revealing a multitude of fates, stories and surprising connections. Florian Illies’ pre-war…
His posthumous snub to contemporary art
It’s an exhibition that resonates with the news. In the midst of the trial of the attacks of November 13, the National School of Fine Arts has exhibited since September…
Nazi contemporary witness: How Elisen gingerbread came to the USA – Bavaria
Interview by Clara Lipkowski It’s eight o’clock in the morning in Chatham, New Jersey; William Freund, 94 years old, logs into the zoom call at home and wants to get…
Contemporary artist Christian Boltanski died at the age of 76
Christian Boltanski, one of the main contemporary French artists, died at the age of 76, we learned this Wednesday from Bernard Blistène, former director of the museum of modern art…
” Shut up ! »… Claire Chazal sorry about Luc Ferry and his disgust for contemporary art
Claire Chazal on the Franceinfo set in 2017. – François Roelants for FTV Luc Ferry “hates” contemporary art and he has made it known. The former Minister of National Education…
Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst… Pinault will exhibit the cream of contemporary art all summer long
The work “Bourgeois Bust-Jeff and Ilona”, a self-portrait in marble by the artist Jeff Koons with his muse the Cicciolina will be exhibited this summer in Rennes. – ALBERTO PIZZOLI…