The exhibition ‘Reality Check’ staged by Fotodok shows work by photographers who mix documentary and fiction. One of them is the American Claire Beckett (32), who photographed at various military installations where army and marine corps personnel are trained for their deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. Last year work of hers was include in the Noorderlicht show ‘War Zone’. Read the article…
New towns are a bit like pop stars: They age more publicly, and more painfully, than the rest of us. After all, how long can you keep up with the moniker “new”? When the first blush of youth passes, what then? The Dutch new town of Almere is an interesting case in point. Read the article…
When the K20 Art Collection in Düssldorf expanded its Arne Jacobsen-designed building, it brought in Licht Kunst Licht to redesign the lighting. The firm integrated daylight and electrical light seamlessly into the architecture and even into other functions such as ventilation and fire safety. Read the article…
There are not many men in my life, but Tom Wolfe is one of them. He seems to have accompanied me through many stages of my life. He is of course the famous inventor of New Journalism, but also of what I will call ‘novelism’. Read the article…
Gabriela Seifert and Götz Stöckmann convinced the town of Gelnhausen to let them build a home and studio in the medieval center. A section of the facade rolls out like a drawer to form a balcony.