October 31, 2005
an interval within the Affordable Art Fair
in between the art 2005 A quiet moment within a physical break between dealer booths on Pier 92 Saturday....
crocdog sighted on Bedford Street
We ran into Larry Auerbach and his little friend yesterday afternoon in Williamsburg. The dog was very much into his costume, so any sign of affection was totally out of the question. It just never seems like the right...
the flowers of October, into November
Just about the time the gardeners should be turning out the annuals and preparing our building's courtyard garden for winter, these beauties [Salvia Leucantha] show up and ask for their time in the low sun....
October 30, 2005
abandoned pom-pon laces
First sighted by Barry late this afternoon, just about a block away from Bertrand Russell's pickup truck....
Bertrand Russell* in Williamsburg
Further to the right on this North 10th Street wall is the exposition,FORGET PATRIOTISM SUPPORT HUMANISM * Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970) Note: the colors in this image have absolutely not been manipulated....
October 28, 2005
an invitation to the [almost] impecunious collector
We're back from Berlin, and tomorrow afternoon [Saturday] Barry and I will be installed as part of a panel assembled to discuss "The Art of Collecting" at the Affordable Art Fair. See the AAF site for details of the program,...
October 26, 2005
not so happy about the Bundeswehr
just say no In the U.S. we can't get very excited about protesting our outrageous invasion and destruction of virtually powerless nations and peoples who present no threat to us whatsoever, but in Germany a good many citizens have...
Berlin's tip
It's a very complicated site for me. It's how we can find our way back to our apartment from anywhere in the city, it's where we joined our friend Dan for his sorta-rehearsal lunch soon after we arrived, it's...
October 25, 2005
golden bombers in Berlin
I found a number of these small gilt paper bombers wheat-pasted on the lower walls of the former Berlin Postfuhramt. The 1881 building on Oranienburger Strasse is used today for occasional art installations....
at the castle near the Forest Schorfheide
ducks in the moat Yesterday I wrote that I hoped to put up some pictures of townscapes we've seen outside Berlin. I'm sorry but they will have to wait until I return to New York. We're both too busy...
October 24, 2005
the Mark Brandenburg, near Berlin
We drove into the country this morning through the unexceptional, but totally charming landscape of the Mark Brandenburg, the historic core of the country, Prussia, which became the modern German state. It rained most of the day, but in...
nice subway station
Barry, sitting uneasily The beautiful red marble which covers the pillars, every wall and even the benches inside the Mohrenstrasse stop on the number 2 U-Bahn has an interesting heritage. It once decorated the walls of Adolf Hitler's lordly...
October 23, 2005
from the Friedrichstrasse Bahnhof bridge
the waves of the Spree below the station at Schiffbauerdamm, just as it started to rain...
October 22, 2005
Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, market day
We visited the twice-weekly organic market in Prenzlauer Berg this afternoon. It rained lightly for much of the day today, so the light in these pictures is just a little exotic. The vegetables at the top on the left...
Berlin Goggomobile
When was the last time you saw a Goggomobil? For me it must have been 1961, or maybe a couple of years later. This one was spotted this afternoon on Knaackstrasse, in Prenslauerberg. The sunroof isn't stock, and it's...
October 21, 2005
Berlin's old air bridge
ceiling fixture in entrance porch of office wing detail of ceiling in great hall We had about an hour to kill before the Lachenman/Nono/Stockhausen concert in the gorgeous Konzerthaus this evening, so Barry and I took the U-Bahn to...
the new Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin
construction scaffolding below the rails the trains roll through while the station rises around them They're building a great railway station in Berlin today, while in the U.S. they're working to dismantle what little remains of what was once...
Bruce Nauman in the Hamburger Bahnhof
Bruce Nauman Mapping the Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage) 2001 installation with multiple projections [still from one screen of installation]...
David Claerbout in Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof
David Claerbout Shadow Piece 2005 video projection [view of installation as still]...
Richard Long's Berlin Circle
Richard Long Berlin Circle 1996 [detail of installation in the Hamburger Bahnhof]...
discovery in Berlin
Absalon Cellule No. 2 1992 Never heard of Absalon before walking into the Hamburger Bahnhof, but I fell in love with this piece immediately. I even tried to imagine making it work as an actual retreat....
in Berlin, the most colorful Andre, most colorless LeWitt
Barry and anonymous entertaining Carl Andre and Sol LeWitt in the Hamburger Bahnhof this afternoon...
October 20, 2005
Berlin stays on its toes
We're staying on Rosa Luxemburg-Platz, only steps from the national headquarters of the PDS, or rather of its successor, Die Linke. I've worn my very red button every time I've gone out, and it seems it escapes the attention...
October 19, 2005
Haacke's "DER BEVÖLKERUNG" grows on the Reichstag
pushing up green "DER BEVÖLKERUNG", Hans Haacke's conceptual and somewhat controversial contribution to the Reichstag, installed in the interior court to the north, is very visible from the roof of this amazing building, at least to those with a...
October 18, 2005
Berlin's Jewish Museum
above the inclined plane We spent hours this afternoon at Berlin's Jewish Museum. I don't think the impact of architecture has ever brought me almost to tears so easily. Yes, the city and the nature of the collection has...
October 17, 2005
Berlin wedding
groom and groom seated inside the Neuer Salon of the Berlin Mitte Standesamt this afternoon. Dan and Adrian confront the Beamte Laurence was invited by the presiding official to go with his camera anywhere he wished. He did. It...
Hans Poelzig interior
walls of our borrowed apartment, in a 1929 Hans Poelzig building, disappear near the ceiling...
October 16, 2005
Berlin, the people's palace holds onto life
inside Der ehemaliges Palast der Republik, a small carnival on the Platz outside...
October 15, 2005
October 14, 2005
Berlin then and now
This noble old building lies directly west across the Spree from Museum Island, in the midst of the most heavily touristed part of Berlin. It still shows the scars of the battle for the city after sixty years. Just...
Berlin-Prenslauerberg street art
seen from the Strassenbahn haltestelle across from our apartment...
October 13, 2005
October 12, 2005
living with Hans Poelzig
our Luft chimney We're in Berlin, where we are staying in a friend's apartment off Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. The building was designed by Hans Poelzig in the late twenties, and the image above is that of the handsome small court within....
October 9, 2005
coming here soon: better hardware, and software
just testing My old camera, a tiny digital, the DimageX, recently had to be sent in for repairs again. I really was planning to get a grown-up camera anyway, but the combination of immediate need and an impending trip...
October 7, 2005
the Russian Schroeder Romero
Dmitri Vilensky (and the group Chto delat/What is to be done?) Sandwiched 2004 video documentation of an action by the group [large detail of video still] Anatoly Osmolovsky Russia, our holy country! Russia, our beloved country! 2001 chair, tape...
October 5, 2005
"Sport" in Socrates Sculpture Park
Derick and Barry stopping to [examine the scrawny Queen Anne's Lace] in the park Much too long ago, while it was actually still calendar summer, I wrote that I was going to put up some images from the show,...
