Continue Reading Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau Dresden Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Dresden, often called”Florence at the river Elbe,” is a beautiful city, and one of contrasts. Having suffered through one of the worst…
Continue Reading Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt An oasis of art in a city of banking I cannot recall his name for the life of me. He was a Hungarian refugee who had managed to escape after the…
Continue Reading Deichtorhallen Hamburg Halle für aktuelle Kunst/Haus der Photographie Part of Hamburg’s museum mile, these two beautiful structures were built between 1911 and 1913 as market halls. The hall for contemporary art…
Continue Reading Museum Medley Deutsches Historisches Museum In honor of Zeitgeist Northwest’s upcoming German Culture Week (for details see http://www.zeitgeistnorthwest.org) I will introduce a number of German museums or other…
Continue Reading Malheur National Wildlife Refuge the birds still outnumber the people Web statistics on Frenchglen (where this photo was taken) inform you that, as of 2015, 111 people lived in this little Eastern…
Continue Reading Joint Ventures The joy of artistic collaborations I met Steve Tilden, a metal sculptor and long-time Blackfish Gallery artist, a decade ago when I asked his permission to use a…
Continue Reading Finding a Balance experiencing nature vs photographing nature Shlomo Breznitz, an Israeli psychologist and sometime member of the Knesset, advised me years ago not to take photographs – ever. He was…
Continue Reading Pastiche A conflicted approach to Emil Nolde One of my occasional odd jobs during law school was milking cows. The farm had a thatched roof and hunkered down behind a…
Continue Reading Put a Bird on it! or: the long reach of cultural clichées Some years back, shortly after the show Portlandia had targeted the intersection between art and commercialism with the meme Put a Bird on…
Continue Reading Welcome to the Neighborhood! Portland: a paradise for urban birders In the small German village where I grew up villager solidarity increased proportionally to the amount of nightly noise produced by a…
