Dada at the Centre Pompidou
This exhibition at the Centre Pompidou is probably one of the most comprehensive surveys of Dada ever.
The Best Albums of 2005
And the song of the year is Losing My Edge by LCD Soundsystem.
Universal Experience. Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye
Perhaps one of the most appropriate works in the exhibition "Universal Experience. Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye" is a photo from Thomas Struth's museum photographs. It works as a mirror, because yes, that's you and me.
Self Portrait: Renaissance to Contemporary at the National Portrait Gallery
A rich and fascinating exhibition. As Vincent van Gogh wrote in a letter to his brother: "It is difficult to know yourself, but it isn't easy to paint yourself either".
Jeff Wall at the Schaulager
I like the work of Jeff Wall so it was a great pleasure to see 70 of his photographs together in one exhibition.
Hussein Chalayan at the Groninger Museum
The most interesting part of the exhibition is the setting Hussein Chalayan created in the Coop Himmelb(l)au pavilion of the Groninger Museum.
Johan Simons: Elementarteilchen
In Elementarteilchen, Johan Simons’ adaptation of the novel of the same title by Michel Houellebecq, the five actors mostly stand on a corrugated floor on an otherwise empty stage. The piece consists of little more than this, but this “little more” touches precisely the right tone.
Guy Cassiers: Proust 4. Marcel's Way
I had some reservations about the first installment of Guy Cassiers' adaptation of "A la recherche du temps perdu", but the third and now the fourth part stole my heart.
Thomas Hirschhorn: Anschool
Energy yes! Quality: No!
Willem de Kooning at the Kunsthal
Compared with the retrospective at the Tate Gallery in 1995 this is a rather poor, pared down survey of Willem de Kooning's body of work.
The Eye Deceived. Painted Illusions by Cornelius Gijsbrechts
A fascinating exhibition at the Mauritshuis in Den Haag brings together a number of paintings by the 17th century master of the trompe-l'oeil, Cornelius Gijsbrechts.
La Belgique Visionnaire
"Visionary Belgium", the exhibition that marks the 175th anniversary of Belgium, is also the last exhibition curated by Harald Szeemann and a chance to see his incredible visual intelligence at work.