We have come a long way from weekly superhero installments and 4-panel strips in the Sunday paper. Comics today are everywhere, and they can range from graphic novels to near-abstract illustrations. They are created using pencils, paint, collage, digital mediums and just about any other tool that can make an image. Why do I think
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Berlin Weekend: ‘Rituals’ Installation Opening
In the foyer at HAU2, a group of BCB students – myself included – awkwardly took their mud-caked shoes off, aligned them up against the wall, as was instructed by a small cardboard sign and entered the installation space sock-footed. Rituals is the outcome of French artist Vincent Moon’s five-year long travels around the world,
Art By Chance: A Short Film
This video was made in the context of Paul Festa’s Documentary Filmmaking class. The assignment was to capture an act of artistic creation, so I decided to film selections of a workshop given by Laura Kuhn, who introduced us to John Cage’s chance drawings. In ‘Art by Chance’ I have tried to explore the way
The curious incident of the grey painting
I have a truly curious story to tell about this painting. I was at a house party that was also a vernissage, organised by a student-run Parisian philosophy society. The flat had two big rooms and there were about 40 people. The artworks shown were all very pretty–most of them were little black and white
6th European Month of Photography in Berlin
Monat der Fotografie Berlin (European Month of Photography Berlin), more commonly known as the MDF Berlin, has been taking place every two years in Germany’s capital as the country’s largest photography festival since 2004. It is organized by Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH in collaboration with various cultural institutions, galleries, museums, embassies, and photography schools in Berlin and
The Art of Summer Transformation
Don’t hate the circumstance, you may miss the blessing. – Marshall Rosenberg I am running towards something unknown in a never-ending direction, with no lights, and no passers-by. The night is cold, and my sight clouded, long thin shadows run alongside me – I don’t know where to turn. I am utterly lost. In the
Dan Attoe’s Landscapes With Water
Dan Attoe, an artist living in Portland, Oregon, had in March and April 2014 a show entitled Landscapes With Water at the Peres Projects gallery in Berlin. Attoe is represented by Peres Projects, which has another branch in Los Angeles. Dan Attoe’s micro-detailed oil paintings are not to be missed. When I visited the gallery
Berlin Sufi Ensemble Rabbaniyya: Walking the Path of the Whirling Dervishes
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art. (Rumi) Peaceful silence fills the largest hall of the Werkstatt der Kulturen. Around three hundred people inhabit its rows waiting for