Blog - Ivar Hagendoorn (Page 38)

14 Jul 2010 · Blog | Economics

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.

3 Jul 2010 · Blog | Architecture

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.

13 Jun 2010 · Blog | Theatre

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.

12 Jun 2010 · Blog | Art

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.

11 Jun 2010 · Blog | Theatre

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.