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Another Brick in the Wall – Michael Schmidt’s Waffenruhe

‘Wer Bunker baut, wirf bomben’ (Those who build bunkers, also make bombs)               Berlin graffito ‘You can’t get lost in Berlin; you always end up at the Wall.’         Wim Wenders, Wings of...

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Material Witness – Anselm Kiefer at Anthony D’Offay

‘I think a great deal about religion because science provides no answers.’ Anselm Kiefer ‘I suspect that the human species – the unique species – is about to be extinguished, and only the library will...

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Out of the Cool – Lee Friedlander at the Victoria and Albert Museum

 ‘That scrawny cry – it was/ A chorister whose c preceded the choir/ It was part of the colossal sun,  Surrounded by its choral rings,/ Still far away.  It was like/ A new knowledge of reality.’...

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Eurosceptic – Paul Graham’s ‘New Europe’

‘By rejecting active story interest, he makes sure that no one will regard him as a reporter. Rather, he is a particular kind of solitary artist, wandering in disparate zones, curious but disaffected,...

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Hard Memories – Anders Petersen’s and J. H. Engström’s From Back Home

 ‘The land between Klarälven River and the chestnut tree at Ekallén is full of little hard memories of sad and lonely times, but there is also a streak of warm confidence that runs all the way up to...

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Fire And Water – Takuma Nakahira’s For a Language to Come

‘How to fill the gap between politics and art? This is both an old and a new problem. . . . . My belief is to accept the contradiction between political matters and the act of creating something, and...

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