Kunst und Politik
Someone has come up with a bogus campaign poster for the conservative coalition that says―"Keine halben Sachen" (No halfway measures)..."Jetzt räumen wir den Sozialstaat richtig ab!" (Now we’re really doing away with the welfare system). This is accompanied by Bruegel’s 'Schlaraffenland' (you know, the imaginary medieval 'Land of Cockaigne'). Even in the dreamlike metropolis of Munich the number of households receiving unemployment benefits rose from 33,000 to 37,000 between January and June of this year, and the number of welfare recipients in general here has increased by over 25% since January of 2004. The local fascisti are ready and willing to pounce, 15 were arrested in the Main Square just the other day (and I must say, the things they gather to celebrate are infinitely ridiculous).
The following is Berlin dialect for 'can she do that?'
No matter how this election turns out (should they have one, and no I cannot vote), I’m putting this sticker on the back fender of my bike.
You rarely see a work of art that inspires so much joy that you actually laugh, as when I walked into the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco and saw this
A cartridge case full of lard. Unfortunately, I attempted to regale a doctor of art something or other from UCLA with that story once...not impressed, to say the least. Seems Beuys (a founding member of the German Green Party) went down in a plane during WWII and some Crimean Tatars slathered him with lard and wrapped him in felt to keep him warm. Who knew?
The following is Berlin dialect for 'can she do that?'
No matter how this election turns out (should they have one, and no I cannot vote), I’m putting this sticker on the back fender of my bike.
You rarely see a work of art that inspires so much joy that you actually laugh, as when I walked into the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco and saw this
A cartridge case full of lard. Unfortunately, I attempted to regale a doctor of art something or other from UCLA with that story once...not impressed, to say the least. Seems Beuys (a founding member of the German Green Party) went down in a plane during WWII and some Crimean Tatars slathered him with lard and wrapped him in felt to keep him warm. Who knew?
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