To mark the 150th anniversary of his birth and the centenary of his death the Musée Carnavalet has dedicated a wonderful exhibition to Marcel Proust, his relationship with Paris and the place of the city in "À la recherche du temps perdu".
I’ve never been a big fan of the work of Georg Baselitz. I’ve always considered his inverted paintings a gimmick. This is why I initially skipped the Baselitz retrospective at the Centre Pompidou. But, with some time to kill I visited the exhibition after all. I don’t regret doing so.
The exhibition Ubuntu, un rêve lucide at the Palais de Tokyo, is a vibrant group show, which brings together some twenty artists whose works bring the Ubuntu philosophy to life.
The exhibition Das Gehirn in Kunst und Wissenschaft (The Brain in Art and Science) at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn was much larger than I had expected. It is both a cultural history of neuroscience and an exploration of the interaction between art and science.
At the last minute I visited "Adam, Eve and the Serpent. Works from the Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann" at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, an excellent exhibition of modern and contemporary art.
Ulysses at 100. The sociology of loss. Neural noise. Resonance. Not hating the body. Marcel Duchamp. Thomas Mann. Joan Didion. What an EUV system looks like. How to slightly improve your life. And more...
The best of the best, the best fiction, the best biography, the best science, philosophy and history books and the best art and photography books and the most disappointing books that I read this past year.
The brain's sense of space. The Webb Space Telescope. A new model of learning. Sleep. Butterfly illustrations. Hyun Song Shin on blockchain technology. The Velvet Underground. Clemens J. Setz. Jürgen Habermas. Jean-Luc Nancy. Air pollution. And more.
After visiting the excellent exhibition “Georges Braque. Inventor of Cubism” at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf I think I finally understand why I never quite warmed to the work of Georges Braque.
The reopening of the Museum Küppersmühle in Duisburg was a good reason to visit the Andreas Gursky retrospective, while the Andreas Gursky retrospective was a good reason to visit the recently reopened Museum Küppersmühle.