Exhibitions should be accessible, inclusive and relevant - but there are often problems with the implementation. "Wonderwalls" in Düsseldorf and "Susanna" in Cologne show how it's done.from Alexander MendenThe front wall of a gallery in the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf is hung as densely as a baroque chamber of curiosities: portraits of Hitler with a Dalí moustache, Donald Trump as a clown, a framed poster that demands: "Don't work with assholes". "Heavy Heads" arranged one on top of the other, three sculptures...
When the directors of the four museums gather under the roof of the Pinakothek der Moderne to give an overview of the annual programme, it is quite an impressive line-up. The exciting question is how impressive the content is. In terms of quantity, this year's program falls behind the pre-pandemic years. Measured by the quality, it is quite impressive.The director of the Architecture Museum, Andres Lepik, presented what was probably the most promising. The issues discussed there are among the...
art exhibitions Controversial documenta at the top of "ArtReview". Members of the Indonesian art collective Ruangrupa at the opening of the documenta. photo © Swen Pförtner/dpa Whether controversial or celebrated: the influence of the documenta in Kassel and the Venice Biennale on the art world remains unbroken. Once again, a ranking sees the two mammoth events at the top. With the documenta in Kassel and the Venice Biennale, the two most important art events of the year left a lasting...
American television legend and former host of the "Tonight Show", the 72-year-old comedian was injured when one of his vehicles caught fire in his garage in Los Angeles.Jay LenoAmerican television legend and former host of the Tonight Showwas hospitalized on Monday with severe burns after an accident, but assured "to go well", according to American media. The 72-year-old comedian was injured when one of his vehicles caught fire in his garage in Los Angeles.American television legendHis recovery could take up...
20 minutes has tested several visits to the museum specially designed for babies, in Paris or near the suburbs, enough to introduce toddlers to art while having fun. Here is a short summary, and the practical details.At the Quai Branly, a storytelling visit with Petit OursThis is our favorite visit. Following the soft voice of an actress who sings throughout, we are immersed in an atmosphere of poetry, at the Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques-Chirac. We begin by crossing...
It's a nice punchline: Private capital saves a showpiece of real-socialist architecture. Well will "The Minsk Kunsthaus in Potsdam" opened, all free tickets this weekend have long been taken. It is the latest museum project Hasso Plattner Foundation in Potsdam. She had also financed the reconstruction of a baroque palace on Alter Markt for her Barberini Museum. Hasso Plattner comes from the old Federal Republic, he is a new citizen of Potsdam. The new citizens who moved here from the...
He had known success in 1981 thanks to his film Das Boot which received six Oscar nominations and opened the doors to Hollywood for her.He loved blockbuster cinema, extreme situations in which he could easily observe human behavior in all its truth. German director Wolfgang Petersen, famous for films such Das Boot (The boatnineteen eighty one), The never-ending story, In the line of sight (with Clint Eastwood in 1993), Air Force One (with Harrison Ford, in 1997) or Troy (with...
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It is one of the world's most important shows of modern art: the documenta has begun. In the face of a smoldering anti-Semitism debate, Federal President Steinmeier speaks about the limits of artistic freedom. At the opening of the documenta world art exhibition in Kassel, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier pointed out the limits of artistic freedom. "I want to be frank: I wasn't sure in the past few weeks whether I would be here today," he said in his opening...
It has been a long time since artists' collectives have been discussed in such detail and with such controversy as the Indonesian collective Ruangrupa is currently doing. This is the artistic director of the world art show Documenta Fifteen, which begins in four weeks in Kassel, and has been confronted with accusations of anti-Semitism for weeks. The group, which those responsible for Documenta wanted to break with traditional Western views of art and include the view of the Global South,...
