I omitted Monica Bonvicini from the caption of our news blog last week. Sorry for that – but who hasn't been there? You walk around an art fair, take photos of artworks you find remarkable in all sorts of places, and afterwards you can't remember which gallery they were in or, even worse, which artist (of course: all genders) created what, where and how you ... read more
Another museum has been robbed: this time it was the Silver Museum in Doesburg (Netherlands), which in a very short time lost its entire collection of around 300 silver mustard pots, created between 1700 and 1920, to brazen thieves. Founded in 2021 and stocked from the collection of Martin de Kleijn, the museum was housed in the 13th-century St. Martin's Church in Doesburg. The rise ... read more
If you haven't yet had the opportunity to hear Stefan Kobel speak rather than just read his work, now is your chance: WDR 3 broadcast a discussion programme entitled ‘Moon prices and millions in losses: the art market in crisis’, moderated by Peter Grabowski and featuring Kobel, Nadine Oberste-Hetbleck from ZADIK, Isabel Apiarius-Hanstein from Kunsthaus Lempertz and Rupert Pfab from ... read more
If you rule long enough, you can achieve quite a lot in the 17th and early 18th centuries. For Louis XIV, this included disempowering the nobility and pursuing an expansive foreign policy. The game of disempowerment played out through the various perfectly normal things that a living being has to do every day, such as getting up, getting dressed, working, eating and sleeping. The king ... read more
Ukraine continues to be attacked on a daily basis – it is clear that international law is being violated on a constant basis and that this is also being acknowledged in the West. Now Trump and his administration are violating international law, and some want to hear verbal condemnation from European leaders, because Russia and China are rightly pointing out the violation (in order to ... read more
That's it for a peaceful start to the New Year – the American president has thrown a spanner in the works and pushed Russia's atrocities into the background for the time being. Maduro rigged the elections to stay in power (Trump is redrawing electoral districts), the Venezuelan state confiscated and nationalised the assets of American oil companies decades ago (the same thing is currently happening ... read more