Picture of the week 03-06-2015
"The Bloodlands is the area of Europe that extends from Lithuania in the north to Ukraine in the south, and where decades of conflict have caused ...
Part of the general education
How many photos do you think an ordinary school class produces in a year? Tens of thousands? Millions? And how many school hours do students have in the year of car teaching? Five? Ten?
The geography of the hidden world
PHOTOGRAPHY: Over the past decades, American artist and geographer Trevor Paglen has focused the camera lens on the secret part of the defense industry – this huge apparatus that sees everything, but which itself tries to avoid being seen.
Nostalgic outsiders
Three female documentary photographers – Lisette Model, Diane Arbus and Nan Goldin – exhibit their contemporary photographs of the imperfections of marginalized and ordinary people.
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Zanele Muholi (b. 1972) calls herself a "visual activist," and through her art, she fights black lesbians, gays, and transsexuals.
Realists Stanley Kubrick
He is a filmmaker who has meant a lot to many of us. In a world that is globalized and militarized, Kubrick is still relevant.
The competent amateur
The desire to be an amateur permeated not only the music and movies the artist Tony Conrad worked with, but also the way he lived. Now the movie about him can be seen daily over an extended period in Oslo this fall.
Photographs extended in time
PHOTOGRAPHY: The most interesting thing about Fiona Tan's exhibition is the question of how the self is expressed through photographic images.
Post-Francoic stress syndrome
Nobel laureate Javier Marías writes strongly about Spain in the years following Franco.
Artificial fertilized art
Kva grew up desirous of Norway's largest industrial adventure, asks artists who exhibit in Grenland in May.
Landscape without women
When the exhibition "The Magical North" opens in Helsinki, it is mainly male Norwegian artists that the audience can see.
Against the light of socialism
Nina Björk leads us through the fog of consumer power and identity politics, along with Rosa Luxemburg.
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Tent camping at Langøyene has long traditions. For an ignorant tourist who visits the place during the daytime, the area can quickly look like a remarkable collection ...
An epic friendship
A new exhibition at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin shows the complicated relationship between the thinker Walter Benjamin and the poet Bertolt Brecht.
Refused to tame
When Kareem Amer tells people he has spent four years in prison for blogging, many respond with raising eyebrows. "Of...
Five scenes from Berlin
Does the series of manifestations throughout history have validity today? After hearing the "chameleon" Cate Blanchett quote historical manifestations through various 13 characters, the answer is yes.
Dramatic for trouble – fiction or reality?
In a theater landscape where fiction is criticized and challenged – what makes one dictate what to say about reality?
In the bottom form
Some of the best works in art history have been created by artists who have been to institutions. Judith Scott was such an artist.
Camera women in the firing line
PHOTOGRAPH: A diverse selection of skilled war photographers is highlighted in oblivion in two new exhibitions at the Preus museum: War Time (1935 – 1950) and Lee Miller.
The working class is desperately trying to defend its dignity
French sociologist Didier Eribon's book on growing up as a gay working class child became a bestseller in Germany last year. Now Return to Reims has been staged by theater director Thomas Ostermeier.
VAGINA! Vulva!
Vienna: Die Jubiläumsschau shows Egon Schiele's 100 year-old artist, where the explicit nude portraits of the woman still provoke.
Dada is dead, live Dada!
Dada is 100 years. The small movement that created new meaning by tearing most of it into pieces has ideological and artistic successors everywhere – just looking around.
The Black Years
The flurry of dark forces and a polarizing political climate strike us when Hamburger Bahnhof exhibits art from the Nazi era.
Picture of the week 10-06-2015
For centuries, the distinction between rich and poor has led to polarization and experiences of lack of self-sufficiency. This is reproduced to this day in the divide ...