Archives: 2010 April
Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin.
April 26th, 2010, No Comments
The Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery), the famous “temple of light and glass” designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, houses the collection of 20th century European painting and sculpture. Ranging from early modern art to art of the 1960s, the collection includes works by Munch, Kirchner, Picasso, Klee, Feininger, Dix, Kokoschka, and many others. [...]
Four Letter Words.
April 20th, 2010, 1 Comment
Four Letter Words consists of four units, each capable of displaying all 26 letters of the alphabet with an arrangement of fluorescent lights. The piece displays an algorithmically generated word sequence, derived from a word association database developed by the University of South Florida between 1976 and 1998. The algorithms take into account word meaning, [...]
Spencer Sweeney: Egyptian Diving Board Part II, at Gavin Brown Gallery. April 10 - 24, 2010.
April 13th, 2010, No Comments
Gavin Brown’s enterprise is proud to announce the second part of Spencer Sweeney’s unprecedented exhibition ‘Egyptian Diving Board.” Sweeney is a seminal figure in the culture of 21st century New York. In a city where all creativity must be packaged and branded and then protected against risk, Sweeney has consistently avoided category. What he is [...]
Allee der Kosmonauten - Kino Sojus, Berlin Marzahn-Hellersdorf.
April 6th, 2010, No Comments
In order to honor the space-flight of the Sowjet cosmonaut colonel Waleri Fjodorowitsch Bykowski and German cosmonaut lieutenant-colonel Sigmund Jaehn with spaceship “Sojus 31″ to space-station “Saljut 6″, the streetname of “Springpfuhlstrasse” was changed to “Allee der Kosmonauten” on 22. September, 1978. East German Sigmund Jaehn was the first German in space. The flight took [...]