Posts Tagged ‘Art’
Cafe Hilde
Lesungen, herzhaftes Irish Breakfast und hausgemachter Kuchen... An einem nassen, dunklen Januarabend war ich zum ersten Mal im Café Hilde. Die Straße glänzte vom Schnee und Regen prasselte wie verrückt an die Fenster, während ich Wein mit Freunden genoss und einer Stimme aus der Vergangenheit zuhörte. Die Stimme gehörte Orson Welles, um genauer zu sein, einer Radiosendung aus dem Jahr 1938, in der er Joseph Conrads Heart Of Darkness vorlas. Welles Stimme, in das Geknister und [...]
Die Kunst des “Urban Sketching”
Der Berliner Illustrator Rolf Schroeter spricht mit uns über seine Leidenschaft für das Skizzieren urbanen Lebens und der Beziehung von Kunst und den Orten, an denen sie stattfindet... Ich wurde in einem kleinen Dorf in der Nähe von Köln in Westdeutschland geboren. Nach meiner Steinmetz Lehre bin ich durch Italien gereist und habe anschließend den Abschluss in Architektur an der RWTH Aachen gemacht. Während dieser Zeit, und speziell während meines Architektur Studiums, habe ich mit [...]
Slow Art Day, 17th April 2010
A new international event that encourages us to Slow down and take more time to enjoy art. Most of us have been guilty of blurring around at least one museum or gallery in our lives, ignoring the majority of the art therein, or focusing more on what's for dinner later than what's in front of us. Indeed, research shows that people spend as little as eight seconds looking at an individual work. Which is why New Yorker Phil Terry, founder of non-profit Reading Odyssey, created the [...]
C/O Berlin
A contemporary photography space and slice of Old Berlin all in one… There’s no lack of photography exhibition venues in Berlin. The city’s profusion of empty, run-down buildings and smart, upmarket galleries cater competently for its burgeoning photography community, reinforced by the plethora of cafes and restaurants eager to give their businesses a creative twist. Since opening in 2000, the privately financed, internationally-minded venue C/O Berlin has emerged as one of the [...]
Q&A: Nathalie Daoust, Photographer
Canadian photographer Nathalie Daoust was born and raised in Montreal but has long been itinerant. In the late 90s she spent several months in New York crafting a collection of images from the famous artist-themed Carlton Arms Hotel, which were later transformed into a book (New York Hotel Story). Since then Daoust has travelled from the Swiss Alps to Brazil and Japan in search of evocative imagery, venturing ever deeper into the fascinating territory of sex, memory and gender stereotyping [...]
