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Zilkens' News Blog Archive

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Zilkens' News Blog 2 2025

The year 2025 begins with a sudden onset of winter and brings with it noticeable changes in many areas of life. In addition to the turn of the year, the main focus is on price increases driven by the preceding inflation. Not only everyday expenses are affected, such as visits to your favorite Italian restaurant, but also essential services such as post and insurance.Car insurance ... read more

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Zilkens' News Blog 1 2025

Dear readers of Kobel's Art Week and our News Blog,2024 brought us enriching encounters in challenging times. What we thought was certain is now in question. We are tackling the resulting challenges and projects together. Thanks to your continued trust, we can create security together.With this in mind, we wish you a peaceful time until Sylvester and a happy and healthy new year!Your team at ... read more

Still to be decorated, bauble and tinsel free! Photo: Stephan Zilkens

Zilkens' News Blog 52 2024

Tomorrow is Christmas Eve – but that won't stop Putin's bloodthirsty henchmen from spreading terror in Ukraine 1065 days after the start of the invasion. It is truly sickening that people in Germany are voting for parties that openly advocate violating international law and then go on to propagate leaving NATO and the EU. A glance at the UK should be enough to show the ... read more

Diana Korn, Social Media Pill, seen at Smith-Davidson Gallery at Art Miami 2024 - Photo Stephan Zilkens

Zilkens' News Blog 51 2024

Pills that increase influence have always been a dangerous dream of mankind. Robert Louis Stevenson already dealt with the effects of adulterated medication in his novella Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide, in which the latter was no longer able to change back into the former after the adulterated stuff was used up. Social media (community manipulation platform would be more appropriate) has the potential to ... read more

Another tent - this was supposedly about the future of art. Fundraising for the project took centre stage.
Photo Stephan Zilkens

Zilkens' News Blog 50 2024

That was it, Miami Art Week with Art Basel Miami, Art Miami, NADA, SCOPE, Untitled, Aqua, Design Miami, Bit Basel, Ink Miami Beach and a number of private gallery or museum events and exhibitions. However, VOLTA and PULSE could no longer be found. And Chinese artists, who flooded the market five years ago, were hardly to be seen with their maximally impasto colour reliefs. Africa ... read more

Above clouds … Photography Stephan Zilkens

Zilkens' News Blog 49 2024

November is over and after 20 more nights of sleep, the days will be getting longer again. Christmas is then 48 hours later, which once again comes as a surprise to many. It is less surprising, despite a great result for a Magritte and a moronic one for a banana with adhesive tape, that the results of the November auctions in New York were even ... read more