Monday, June 23, 2008

Director's recovery proceeding well

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The Wassmann Foundation, Washington, D.C., reports director Jeff Wassmann (pictured at right on a recent trip to Paris) is recovering well f...
Monday, May 26, 2008

Museum opening stymied by U.S. funding crisis

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MuseumZeitraum Leipzig Director Sophie Vogt today announced the museum would not meet its July 2008 opening deadline after the apparent coll...
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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Roxanna Brown, art historian, 1946 - 2008.

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Family, Friends, and Colleagues of Dr. Roxanna Brown: When a great and good person is taken from us, the shock calls upon us to freeze the d...
Tuesday, January 08, 2008

A final resting place

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The New Year began on a solemn note with the re-interment on Johann Dieter Wassmann's remains in a purpose-built crypt below the main ga...
Saturday, November 03, 2007

One last look

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The announcement on Thursday that an agreement has been reached with the Wassmann Foundation that will see the works of Johann Dieter Wassma...
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Thursday, November 01, 2007

Museum reaches landmark repatriation accord

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, D.C., November 1, 2007 — Announcing a "new page of cooperation," MuseumZeitraum Leipzig and the ...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

MuseumZeitraum Leipzig

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After travels and travails more varied than I'd care to mention, the MuseumZeitraum Leipzig blog returns this week with news, views and ...
Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Is modernity our antiquity?

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Dada and Surrealism were still years away when Johann Dieter Wassmann struck out with this monumental, if misunderstood, work, “Of the Steal...
Sunday, July 08, 2007

Is modernity our antiquity? What is bare life?

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Johann Dieter Wassmann, Nietzsche 306P , 1897. 370 x 280 x 100 mm. In recent posts I've been examining the first of three leitmotifs pos...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Documenta 12 takes a beating.

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After being savaged by the English-language press earlier in the month, Documenta 12 has now been ravaged by the elements, with Ai Weiwei...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

The Zeitraum gardens

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Work continues at MuseumZeitraum Leipzig toward our mission of opening to the public next summer. This week the foundations went in for our...
Sunday, June 17, 2007

Is modernity our antiquity?

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Earlier this evening I was delighted to bump into curator Abigail von Bibera at Documenta 12's Museum Fridericianum. Over drinks she m...
Saturday, June 16, 2007

First Look: Hazoume Romuald @ Documenta 12

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Is modernity our antiquity? Hazoume Romuald proffers an answer.

The morning after the night before.

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With revelers still wandering the streets of Kassel from the opening party last night, Documenta 12 is just a few hours away from officiall...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

Is modernity our antiquity? The answer is nigh.

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Documenta 12 doesn't officially open till the weekend, but a number of works have been erected in public spaces here in Kassel and they...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

1 down, 2 to go.

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As the art hoards head north from Venice to Basel this week, the citizens of Kassel are enjoying one last moment of calm before the onslaugh...
Monday, May 21, 2007

Zeitraum Rising

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I've just realised I haven't given you an update on MusesumZeitraum's progress in some time. Too busy debating the great issues...
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

When men were men and Beuys was Beuys. Documenta 12 enjoys the shade of D7.

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With the opening of Documenta 12 just a month away, I ventured out west to Kassel last week to visit King Roger and Queen Ruth and gaze upo...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

"Controversy is normal with us"

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Documenta 12 artistic director Roger M. Buergel offers members of the press a guided tour of exhibition venues earlier today in Kassel. Bu...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Documenta 12: better pack your Hawaiian Tropic

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Last week I gave you a first look at the new Plastic Pavilion rising before Kassel’s Orangerie for Documenta 12 this summer. This week I ca...