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...started out as an avant-garde director. How did you end up making movies for 12-year-olds...
...became his primary medium; flamboyant can-can dancers, brightly painted clowns, seedy nightclubs and crowded bars became his subjects. However, to focus solely on Lautrec’s widely celebrated prints would neglect a critical component of the artist’s repertoire and misrepresent his view of the avant-garde, glitzy world of late nineteenth-century Paris...
...Avant-garde musicians are spooky types, as proven by the recent show at the Middle East featuring Plaid, Nobukazu Takemura and Mira Calix. Alien atmospherics were the theme of the night, with the downstairs lounge of the Middle East and clumps of equally weird onlookers basking in light tinged sickly green. Clouds of smoke were penetrated by sheets of cacophonic noise draped over the occasional sullen bass boom, sounding like a malevolent heartbeat. The stage was littered with mostly unidentifiable contraptions; only the distinctive white outline of an iBook served as a reminder that this was conceived by humans...
...Reading "Stripburek" gives the impression that the Iron Curtain resulted in a kind of comix Galapagos where the avant-garde, poetical and parable possibilities of comix evolved in unexploited splendor. Danijel Zezelj's "Petrified Tree" uses high-contrast, slashing brushwork to interpret a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Lucie Markvartova's "Switch On-Off" builds a story out of all the buttons a finger must push throughout the day. Many pieces are like Wostok and Grabowski's fantastical "Daddy Where Are You," about a little girl who follows Daddy's beard through all manner of obstacles only to find...
...broad boulevard planted with linden trees that runs east to Alexanderplatz. As in the old days, Unter den Linden is once again lined with cafés. Down the street near Friedrichstrasse is the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, one of the city's newest museums and a showplace for the avant garde. (Tel. 20 20 93 0; Open daily 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.) Friedrichstrasse is a window shopper's paradise, with stores clustered around a three-building complex called the Fried-richstadt Passagen. At one end is the striking Galeries Lafayette, with an immense glass cone through its heart...