World of Arts  Magazine

(Berlin.) Some say, if Potsdamer Platz is Berlin’s Manhattan, the area surrounding Museumsinsel is a mix of Vegas and Monte Carlo, minus...

(Berlin.) Martin-Gropius-Bau’s latest exhibition will confound all those who knew Piet Mondrian only as de Stijl-ish master of sparsely...

(Berlin.) You certainly know IMAX, the supersized movie format invented by a Canadian company that offers expressively impressive...

(Berlin.) A Mercedes and a loan from Deutsche Bank: 98.5 per cent of artists (and critics) will never get near either. Yet, both emblems...

(Berlin.) We like ---, we really do. We like the British-German artist’s approach to the art market, selling six-figure works without...

(Berlin.) With Fire and Forget. On Violence, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the cosy industrial venue in Berlin’s no-longer-that-hip...

(Berlin.) Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin’s most important museum for modern and contemporary art, dedicates a show to Black Mountain College....

(Berlin.) Some say Berlin is great, “but maybe a bit too self-centred”, and Berlinische Galerie’s reopening won’t change the idea. A...

(Berlin.) I know exactly what you’re thinking: Germany, an institution called “House of the Cultures of the World” (Haus der Kulturen der...

(Paris.) Continuing to cover all of photography’s styles and eras, Jeu de Paume shows Florence Henri and Taryn Simon, two artists with...

(Paris.) Over the years, Le Plateau has earned a reputation for some of the most mind bustling, abstracty conceptualistiest exhibitions...

(Paris.) Last autumn, Bernard Arnault, billionaire owner of LVMH (Luis-Vuitton-Moët-Hennessy – and that’s only the brands they started...

(Paris.) The renovation of Parisian Musée Picasso, established in 1985 and owning the world’s largest collection of the artist’s œuvre,...

(Paris.) Love it or loathe it, but Jeff Koons has well secured his place in art history. Koons started, or at least spearheaded something...

(Paris.) Long ago I gave up visiting the Musée d'Orsay, and decided to consider it permanently closed. This I did not for the same...

(Edinburgh.) Uir joorney tae th' UK teuk us faurder north than juist Lunnon, as we gaed oan tae Auld Reekie fur th' Fruitmarkit Gailerie...

(London.) Lately focusing on Paris, ArtLife Magazine still leaves France from time to time, for example to see what’s going on in the UK....

(Paris.) L.H.O.O.Q. Not to confuse with L.V.M.H., the name of Bernard Arnault’s little shop of luxury, that is indirectly honoured on...

(Paris.) “Evening, and a lowly servant sat beneath the Rashomon, waiting for the rain to end.” These are the first words from Ryunosuke...

(Paris.) It was a more than slightly embarrassing moment when, having lived for years in France and deeming myself no longer a stammering...

(Paris.) If Fondation Cartier were a wearer of Cartier jewellery, this would be the time to stop counting years and celebrate her 29th...

(Paris.) La Maison Rouge, as we all know, is the pastime of choice for supermarket heir Antoine de Galbert. His foundation either...

(Paris.) Opened in 2006 as the pet project of President Chirac, Musée du Quai Branly tries hard to be the 21th Century version of an...

(Paris.) Let’s start with our apologies: If you’ve clicked the title in hope to read about the free performances given at Centre Pompidou...

Paris. In a big retrospective show, the MAMVP (Municipal Modern Art Museum of Paris) presents Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) as an artist who...

(Paris.) Earlier editions of Grand Palais’ Monumenta series have brought us excellent installations from the likes of Richard Serra...

(Paris.) Previously on PdT: In February, the Palais de Tokyo presented the first instalment of its exhibition series L’état du ciel (The...

(Paris.) Two heavyweights are competing for the most successful photo show this spring: In the red corner the “Godfather of...

(Paris.) The Grand Palais completes the Parisian photo circuit with a show dedicated to Robert Mapplethorpe, that adds to Cartier-Bresson...

(Paris.) It’s common knowledge that the importance of the classic European model of publicly financed art museums is constantly...