Andrew found and installed (thanks!) a marvelous little script that allowed me to close TBs and comments on old entries without having to do so individually. Hurrah. I'm leaving comments open for 10 days, but no more TBs at all. Hopefully this will make keeping the blog clean a lot easier.
There's a show up at the Ludwig collection in Oberhausen. Unfortunately it's closing in May, and with a move looming I don't really see myself making it over to Germany anytime soon. Maybe I can get the catalog. Meantime, here's a review.
The collection is Peter and Irene Ludwig's. It's been a bit mysterious to me because I've never been able to find any up-to-date info on it; all of the print references I could find were from the '80s. But now, all of a sudden (seemingly), the website has a lot more information. Anyway: in the 1970s and 1980s they put together a good amount of East German art, which is interesting to me on two fronts: first just for the works themselves, and second for the nature of the collectors' focus. West German chocolate magnates interested in East German art? Well, it's interesting to me, at least, and Hans Haacke did something nice with it once. But anyway:
„Deutsche Bilder aus der Sammlung Ludwig“ zeigt erstmals miteinander Werke von Künstlern aus Deutschland Ost und Deutschland West aus der Sammlung Ludwig gleichberechtigt auf einer Augenhöhe: Die Ausstellung will dem in den vergangenen Jahren oft verbissen geführten Bilderstreit durch das Miteinander der Bilder eine erlebbare Gestalt geben: der deutsch-deutsche Bilderstreit als eine Begegnung der Bilder.
So the show is dedicated to both East and West German art. Back in the day, Ludwig was accused of favoring East German artists (sorry, no citations). Apparently the foundation is making a first foray into getting past the whole Bilderstreit thing. Can we call it Bilderstreitsbewältigung?
(I can't muster any really interesting insights into Ludwig and collecting and GDR art and anti/revisionism right now. Maybe next time.)
[via Ostblog]
So remember that recent post about being at home in Austin? Almost immediately after I wrote and posted it, something happened to change everything. Andrew got a job offer, which he's accepted, that will take us both to Seattle. The move comes soon--he's going in a few weeks and I'll go up after graduation (oh yes, I am planning to finish, finally).
Not sure what this will mean. We're looking forward to it, but we also have massive anxiety about the logisitics of the move (at least we're not doing the physical moving, thank goodness). And of course we're sad to be leaving here, where we've both lived for more than 10 years.
On the other hand, it's been almost 90 the last couple of days, and while the evenings have been picture-perfect, the daytime heat reminds us both of something we've never totally gotten used to here. Although I never felt like I let the heat get in my way, the prospect of living in a more temperate climate is very appealing. Plus there are mountains and sea up there.
There are lots of other things I'm thinking about all of this, but I expect I'll let them out in bits and pieces over time so that this doesn't become my Moving Anxiety Blog. On the other hand: does anyone have any advice for flying with a cat?
This is fun to flip through.