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Paris sera toujours Paris
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011 Blog,There is such an incalculable amount that may be said about Paris, it’s tempting to just shut up. However, having not yet reached that charmed state where, like Anish Kapoor, I can title a volume of conversations: “I Have Nothing to Say”, I’m obliged to blog on regardless. Paris may not be the world capital […]
Somewhere around the rainbow
Saturday, June 25th, 2011 Blog,All second cities see the capital as a den of iniquity. Listening to a cab driver in Aarhus hold forth on the horrors of Copenhagen, I thought for a minute he was describing Mexico City. Crime, pollution, overcrowding, traffic – apparently Copenhagen has it all. This was news for me, who had always been impressed […]
Aarhus in red
Friday, June 24th, 2011 Blog,Aarhus in red: seen through Olafur Eliasson’s ‘Your Rainbow Panorama’
Anarchy & order in Copenhagen
Friday, June 17th, 2011 Blog,Coming back to Copenhagen from Humlebaek, where we had been to see the Louisiana Museum, we got talking to a man named Emil Bier, who said he was an inventor, and was almost certainly an anarchist. The next day in a side street in Copenhagen, we ran into Emil Bier again. If you look him […]
A terrible beauty in Venice, sort of…
Saturday, June 11th, 2011 Blog,This much delayed blog comes from a train, speeding towards Aarhus in Denmark, where the second Danish Sculpture by the Sea is being held. I’ve just finished four exhausting days in Venice for the Biennale. Lest you think this sounds glamorous, I can’t remember when I’ve felt so zonked every evening. Too tired to write […]
Rats, Venice
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011 Blog,Huge talking rats were all the rage in Venice this year, courtesy of New York’s Bruce High Quality Foundation
I survived…
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011 Blog,An exhibit in the Arsenale anticipates audience responses to this year’s show
Biennale car crash
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011 Blog,Biennale as a car crash – Hajnal Nemeth’s work in the Hungarian pavilion
Mao in Venice
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011 Blog,Chairman Mao as a Byzantine icon, by Stelios Faitakas, on the outer wall of the Danish pavilion.
Happiness
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011 Blog,Hany Armanious’s ‘Happiness’ in the Australian pavilion. Viewer = not happy