German Christian democrat Günther Oettinger might not be a bad choice to fill the role of a European Commissioner. What is unsettling about Oettinger’s nomination lies not in his person, but in the way the German political sphere has handled it.
Continue Reading...On 15 and 16 October, 2009, the EJC hosted yet another conference in its Innovation series, titled “Innovations in Youth Media and Next Generation Classroom”, and I was kindly invited to moderate the Maastricht event. Here are some conclusions I drew.
Continue Reading...An exhibition at Fondation Beyeler in the pastoral Basel, Switzerland, suburb of Riehen, showed the whole range and the development of Giacometti’s art.
Continue Reading...After the fall of communism, it appears that Russian art was clueless about which new direction to take. What ensued seems to have been a phase of confused and disoriented experimentation, which produced scores of devastatingly bad works.
Continue Reading...The Schaulager in the Basel, Switzerland, suburb of Münchenstein, is one of the boldest, most audacious, and most fascinating art spaces I have seen so far. It is anything but a solemn place to worship art.
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