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Europe off the beaten path – Lee Arnold visits some small museums

Post by Lee Arnold I spent this summer in Europe and this time around I decided not to visit the major museums but instead explore some of the smaller local spots. Here is a list of six places you may not have heard of that are definitely worth a visit: 1. Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen

Above the Arctic Circle in Norway, industrial parks and art in Berlin, John Baldessari in Amsterdam

Our plane from JFK  touched down on Norwegian soil around 9:15 AM, Oslo time. My last aerial glances revealed Norwegian fields spread over long ripples of irregular landscape like crinkled foil, the plots creating a puzzle (not of squares like in America’s Midwest) but of triangles and polygons, which suggested people in a more relaxed oneness with the land.

Los Angeles: A Community of the Living and the Dead.

Los Angeles. You have to wonder when the United States is going to kick its cultural amnesia and get on with some real, workable, world-historical consciousness; when it’ll finally enter History rather than just history. My guess is in a century or two, when we’ve joined the underdogs and the past seems prettier and not so conveniently forgotten. But History is not so much forgotten here as it is repressed and replaced; forced so far down that it pops up with the weirdest, WTF symptomology.

Drop What You Are Doing and Come to Berlin, 1

Letter from Mari Shaw in Berlin This is part 1 of four parts. Mona Hatoum, Undercurrent (red), 2008, Cloth covered electric cable, light bulbs, dimmer device, Edition of 3 plus 1 AP, at Galerie Max Hetzler Temporary, OsramHöfe, Berlin. image provided by Galerie Max Hetzler. Comments on this work will appear in part 3 of the post. I emerged bleary-eyed from Tegel Airport for Berlin’s Fourth Gallery Weekend. The sun was shining and a Berlin breeze swept the city’s energy over me. It is true. Berlin pulses. Four years ago, a group of prominent galleries in Berlin launched the Spring ... More » »

Berlin in the Spring: Report, Part 4

Report by Charlotte Schatz [Ed. note: Philadelphia artist Charlotte Schatz made a trip to Berlin, Lyon and Paris this spring and wrote these lively reports on her visit. The first four posts will cover her time in Berlin.] Hi:No art talk today though we did go to the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum and a gallery crawl. I want to tell you what a really lovely city this is. There are parks everywhere. The old East German apartment blocks have been or are being converted into colorful, balconied buildings.They have charming inner courtyards called Hofs with outdoor restaurants abounding. We have seen ... More » »

Berlin in the Spring: Report, Part 3

Report by Charlotte Schatz [Ed. note: Philadelphia artist Charlotte Schatz made a trip to Berlin, Lyon and Paris this spring and wrote these lively reports on her visit. The first four posts will cover her time in Berlin.] HALOO from Berlin:After climbing to the 5th floor, up and down the subway steps, long blocks from bus to trolley, I have wonderful legs. Today we went to the Pergamon Museum to see the Pergamum alterpiece – a huge classical Greek monument which was taken by the Russians to Leningrad after WWII and returned to Berlin in the 60′s or 70′s. Saw ... More » »

Berlin in the Spring: A Report, part 2

Report by Charlotte Schatz [Ed. note: Philadelphia artist Charlotte Schatz made a trip to Berlin, Lyon and Paris this spring and wrote these lively reports on her visit. The first four posts will cover her time in Berlin.] Today was very exciting. We went to Dodge’s son’s, Jason Dodge’s apartment and babysat for a while and then went out on the streets to watch the demonstrations, the punks all decked out with multi-colored hair, the policei decked out with helmets,etc. It was all very peaceful and colorful. We ate Syrian pitas stuffed with vegies, drank carrot juice, walked and walked ... More » »

Berlin in the Spring: A report by C. Shatz

Report by Charlotte Schatz [Ed. note: Philadelphia artist Charlotte Schatz made a trip to Berlin, Lyon and Paris this spring and wrote these lively reports on her visit. The first two posts will cover her time in Berlin.] Hi Everyone:Had a great first day. I went to sleep at 10 pm and woke up at 9 am! Made myself breakfast in my little apartment and met Robert on the street where we shopped for food. [Robert is Robert Dodge, colleague and friend of Charlotte's from the Art Department at Bucks County Community College. He is retired and living in Berlin ... More » »