The Art of Memento Mori – Remember you must die
A couple of years ago Damien Hirst’s “For the Love of God” was in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Tracking through a carefully curated – by Hirst himself – maze of 17th century Dutch Continue reading
Sunday Morning Short – ‘The Girl with The Yellow Stockings’
It goes without saying – although I’m about to say it – that I’m completely obsessed with future shorts. A celebration of the short film and a pop-up film festival, what more Continue reading
Fine Art Project for the Skin
At a party on Saturday this girl felt the need to proclaim her disgust with tattoo’s; after hearing me out about mine and making the error of seeing a 8 Continue reading
Electrified Ethel in the Skies
‘I cry for Myself as I lie dead, for shall they know all that burn my brain & breast’ — Ethel Rosenberg She’s been buzzing trough my brain. The quote Continue reading
Art People
Ever found yourself at an exhibition opening surrounded by people engaged in pseudo-intellectual discussions, adorned in ‘I’m so original and authentic’ secondhand cardigans, glasses and canvas bags. They might look Continue reading
On Occupy
I don’t want to start with a hipster like [i.e. I-knew-this-band-before-they-where-known] statement , but first I would like to note that I already reported on Occupy when it was still called ‘Yes, Continue reading
Sartre’s Obscene Moment revisited (part 2)
Last time we left it on a question: “is this woman with the tight skirt acting upon her own accord, and thus some sort of masochist. or is she pushed Continue reading
Sartre’s Obscene Moment revisited (part 1)
Jean-Paul Sartre writes in the third chapter of Being and Nothingness about interpersonal relationships. For him this remains a complicated matter that starts with the moment of the gaze. When Continue reading
Sentiments of Doomsday
The disillusionment of sentiments on the world. The likes of Voltaire´s revision of the world being the best of all possible worlds (á la Leibniz) in light of the terrible earthquake Continue reading
