On July 14th, 2011, THE SCHMELA HAUS…
…the marvelous Dusseldorf puzzle-like brutalist modernist masonry vertical structure from 1971 well known as the site of Joseph Beuys projects from the 70’s and early 80’s, designed by…
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On July 13th, 2011, HINKEL BÄCKEREI…
…is the best bread in Düsseldorf according to a few of the market farmers I have asked (in a country where people take their bread very very seriously),…
On July 12th, 2011, DÜSSELDORF…
…with welcome chilly drizzly weather – after enduring a few sweltering days rubbing up against sweaty sun-burnt tourists in the sticky blazing Venetian sun – is where I…
On November 14th, 2010, THE BERLINER STADTSCHLOSS…
…occupied a central position on Berlin’s museum island, and despite much protesting from the West was eventually demolished by the GDR in 1950 after damage from Allied bombings,…
On November 13th, 2010, THE BERLIN TIERGARTEN MEMORIAL TO HOMOSEXUALS PERSECUTED…
…under Nazism by Berlin based artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset (whose place I happen to be staying at this week) provides a poetically uncomfortable public moment as…
On November 12th, 2010, GLOOMY BERLIN WEATHER…
…is not preventing me from being excited to be in this town that I have not had occasion to visit in years (I actually happened to be here…
On November 11th, 2010, SHEEP AT GOETHE’S WEIMAR HOUSE…
…are sweetly mowing the lawn on a chilly afternoon in front of the garden house of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe which he used as a Summer retreat after…