From the description text of an exhibition I went to see at the Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg:

From 27 February, 2016: Liquid Identities - Lynn Hershman Leeson. Identities in the 21st Century

“Digital identity”, “patchwork identity”, “multiple identities”, these are all terms and constructs we use in our attempts to approach the complex question of “ ( Read more... )

*looks around, carefully dusts off her journal, then decides to kick off the new journalling year in classic bullet point style*

What I'm currently reading:

• Hans Fallada: Ein Mann will nach oben
• Heirich Geiselberger, Tobias Moorstedt (Red.): Big Data, Das Neue Versprechen der Allwissenheit, Suhrkamp 2013 (a collection of academic and non-academic ( Read more... )

Simply because it's so much fun to watch. Completely without words, so do you don't need any German to enjoy! :)

I guess, if there were such a thing as a special heaven for the artistically inclined, the fathers and mothers of Dadaism would sit on their own nonsensical little cloud and smile gently down.

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Now that summer is almost over (almost, but not quite), it seems like I'm slowly getting back in the right mood for journaling again. Emphasis being on slowly. There is this huge backlog of worthwile things I could write about. Truly fantastic holiday in St. Ives and London. The books I've read/ am currently reading. Or, for something artsy, the ( Read more... )

After the article published in Die Zeit a couple of weeks ago, I had a certain feeling it would  only be a matter of time until other major newspapers would pick up on Kaeptn Peng. But a rather longish, favourable review regarding a left-leaning songwriter/ rapper and band  published in the feuilleton of the F.A.Z., which is one of Germany's most ( Read more... )

Cavendish is currently reading Hemingway's "Cat in the Rain" with one of his English classes. And look what he found online: A thing of absolute beauty!

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Two anonymous online support groups that should exist, but unfortunately don't. At least not to my knowledge...

1. Christmas Phobics Anonymous. Not that I dislike Christmas per se. Also, I actually look forward to many of the things that usually come with the event. Card writing,  buying and giving presents, Christmas fairs, watching Christmas-y ( Read more... )

Mostly dry with sunny spells, 23 °C. Best weather we've had for over a week. Cavendish is outside, moving the lawn and trying to get back at least some modicum of control over what grows and (what doesn't) in our flower beds.

Finished watching Boston Legal about a week ago. Back in spring when we started, I had no idea how much I would come to like ( Read more... )

Friends, readers, countrywomen ( Read more... )

Currently watching Simon Schama's Power of Art, the episode on Bernini.

As someone mainly interested in 20th century painting, I never would have thought it possible that lifeless stone could be turned into something like this...

Rape of Proserpina, 1622, Galleria Borghese, RomeWow, just wow ( Read more... )