Forest near Kaiserslautern
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Exhibition for a cause
I am really pleased to have an exhibition at Visione restaurant because I support their mission (I also like their food and that they support local artists and musicians). Read more about them below, and please visit them if you are in the area.
Café – Bistro – Restaurant Visione has two locations – The one in Kaiserslautern is located in the heart of the old town. Aside from a stylish ambience, friendly atmosphere, and delicious food, Visione is an important contribution to the social model of the city of Kaiserslautern with their “to live together – learn together” project. It was the first barrier-free (handicap accessible) restaurant in Kaiserslautern and its on-going mission is to hire mentally and physically challenged individuals and to prepare them for permanent employment on the open labor market. Their motto: “alles ausser gewöhnlich”, “everything except ordinary.”
At Visione you will find a varied lunch menu, homemade cakes and tea and coffee specialties. In the evening a selection of Mediterranean and regional dishes are freshly prepared and continuously a comfortable meeting place in our bistro and lounge area.
Opening times:
Monday to Saturday, 11:30 – 24:00
Closed on Sundays.
Café-Bistro-Restaurant Visione
http://www.visione-lokal-kl.de/index.jsp
Kaiserslautern: Gaustraße 1, Phone: 0631 89 23 789
Ramstein: in Haus des Bürgers (Public House), Phone: 06371 4078765
Modern Art Books Online – Free
The Guggenheim museum recently digitized and released 65 catalogs about artists, with pictures, from its publications archive at
www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/publications/from-the-archives.
You have can also download them at Archive.org:
www.archive.org/details/guggenheimmuseum
For more information, read Free: The Guggenheim Puts 65 Modern Art Books Online at Open Culture.
Local Scenes – Germany
I am pleased to say that my show has been scheduled.
The preliminary details are:
- What: Landscapes and cityscapes of the local area.
- Where: Visione Restaurant, Gaustrasse 1, Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Opening: March 29. 7pm.
Marcel Duchamp on Art
“… I want to clarify our understanding of the word ‘art’ – to be sure, without any attempt at a definition.
What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.”
” … All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualification and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives a final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.”
I’m back.
Wow. I’ve been super busy with my day job – teaching college. I am teaching three classes this term and three more next term. It has taken me some time to get on a reasonable schedule that lets me devote time to all of my activities.
I am working on new projects – more later. In the meantime, I am preparing for a show at a local restaurant that showcases local American and German artists. I will finalize the dates this coming week. You can see a preview of works in the show by clicking the Show Preview link at right.
Regular posting…. As part of my new schedule, I will post to this site on a weekly basis.
I spent an early Christmas in heaven
I spent a whole day there, gorging on bratwurst and main-lining Glühwein. Heaven? Close — the Christmas Markets in Cologne. I was there with 847,352 of my closest friends. No kidding. At one point there were so many people pushing against me that if I had hopped up into the air 1 or 2 inches, I would have been carried along by the mass of bodies. Yes, there was lots of shopping to be done, but alas, there were sooo many types of bratwurst and other barbecued meats, all washed down with more Glühwein, that my shopping had to wait. And Glühwein without an added shot of amaretto is like hot chocolate without the hot.
After a morning tour of old-town Cologne, I spent the better part of the afternoon taking in the sights as I moved between bratwurst and Glühwein vendors. So, how many brats can one eat and amaretto-laced Glühwein can one drink? I am not sure. I was still working on that when it was time to board the bus for the two-hour trip home. I don’t remember the trip home. I lost consciousness shortly after I slid into my seat. (I had an unexpected day off, so I went to Cologne on a USO tour).
I thought I was an idiot until …
