Johan van der Keuken at FOAM
The work of Dutch filmmaker and photographer Johan van der Keuken (1938-2001) is in my genes. This may be why I have never been fully aware of his influence on my own work and thinking.
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Exit Through The Gift Shop is one of the most intriguing films I have seen in a while.
Weird People Weird Science
Just how representative are all those social science studies based on a small sample of North-American or European undergraduate students?
Enter the Void Opening Credits
The opening credit sequence from Enter the Void is awesome.
Foraging For Pleasure
In addition to a hunger for food (and sex) humans appear to have an insatiable hunger for information. And so as their hunger for food is more easily met people have moved from consuming food to consuming concepts.
The Most Important Works of Architecture Since 1980?
Vanity Fair asked 52 prominent architects and critics to list the five most important works of architecture created since 1980. They didn't ask me, so here's my list.
Peter Stein: I Demoni
Some scenes in "I Demoni", Peter Stein's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel "The Demons", are magnificent, but overall I was underwhelmed.
Matisse to Malevich. Pioneers of Modern Art from the Hermitage
This exhibition at the Hermitage Amsterdam offers a rare chance to see some masterpieces of modern art from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
Rechnitz (Der Wuergeengel)
"Rechnitz (der Würgeengel)" by Elfriede Jelinek is about the power of language to distort and to obfuscate. It is about people who hide behind an excess of words.
Sasha Waltz Dialoge 09 Neues Museum
Dialoge 09 Neues Museum by Sasha Waltz and Guests is a real gem.
What Happened to the Interval?
A common trend in the performing arts of the past 10 to 15 years is the omission of the interval.
Skills Obsolescence
A personal tale of skills obsolescence.