Opened Up

There is no image that captivates us more than seeing another person naked. The sight is equally compelling in its ambiguity; exciting, electrifying and irresistible. It seems…

In January 1935, Ernst Barlach (1870-1938) told Hamburg’s former chief planning director Fritz Schumacher (1869-1947) about his new project: “The Frieze of the Listeners will…

With the re-development of Central London’s streets in the late 19th century Charing Cross Road was created stretching from St Martin-in-the Fields to St. Giles Circus where…

When visiting the Hall Art Foundation at Derneburg Castle near Hildesheim, and after a guided tour through the extensive collections of modern and contemporary art, getting…

In his book, the well known New York Magazine art critic Jerry Saltz (born 1951) strives to find an answer for the most fundamental question or remark that probably every…

The Grosvenor School of Modern Art is relatively unknown private British Art School that existed between 1925 to 1940. Only in recent years has it been uncovered, explored and…

I love movies for as long as I can remember, watching them in cinemas, on VHS tapes, DVDs and streaming directly into my own living room. With the invention of the DVD in the…

The research project "Interdependencies : arts and artistic techniques" at the Institute of Art History and Historical Urban Studies at the Technical University Berlin…

Nothing is as problematic as the truthfulness of current news and information. This phenomenon is not new, but has become much more unmanageable due to the possibility of free…

One of the most famous peepholes must be the one at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where the last major work by Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), “Étant donnés”, 1966 is installed.