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Hurrah – the Olympics are over! For the athletes who performed very well and for the officials with a bitter aftertaste. The disqualification of the Ukrainian bobsleigh pilot, who wanted to commemorate the athletes murdered by the Russians on his helmet, was distasteful, as was Infantino's kowtowing to Trump on the subject of football.Ten per cent of the population is said to have already been ... read more
On Tuesday night, the Nubbel is burned – then Carnival is over and fasting season begins – at least for devout Catholics. Forty days later is Easter. In the days when these rules were established, the wolf was considered a predator because it threatened the sheep and cattle herds that formed the basis of food and economic life. The wolf is still a predator, but ... read more
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