Eighteen out of thirty-six. This is already my half-time post as your observer in residence. I feel that I have more questions than upon my arrival. It all started broadly with: how is art taught today?  How can you teach a practice that itself… more »

   “We all should learn from sloths. You don’t have to be beautiful and you don’t have to do a lot to be adorable.” Maha Maamoun   What if Disney Princesses were sloths? This question was recently raised rather graphically by Buzzfeed editor Jen… more »

Yes, form follows function. But whom does function follow? Does it follow the people constituting a space? Or those governing it?   Yes form follows function. But while utopia wanted new men, capital wants new circuits. While utopia imagined… more »

  “I have never laughed about a photo. But it is incredibly hard to make people cry with a comic.”   The silence in the studio of Nicolas Wild’s class on graphic reportages is astonishing. You hear scribbling and at time the rustling of paper. Your… more »

     Yesterday I was blogging about my annoyance with tourists. Those alien-like figures, who always move slowly, appear in groups and block everything for everybody. I was annoyed by the greedy exotization. I was annoyed by the obsession to turn… more »