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Soul Chain by Sharon Eyal

November 11, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Saturday evening, cold wind, empty streets. On the way to Residenztheater some lost figures performing underwater movements in slow motion. Is this part of Tanzplattform Deutschland that was taking place in Munich from 4th to 8th March 2020? 15 productions chosen from a jury were presented during five days to an international (specialist) audience. In front of the venue: also dancers in slow motion with only a few interested bystanders watching, as everybody is keen on getting into the...

Time for Ethical Elegance

November 11, 2025 • 12:00 AM

How does one choose the perfect gift, which also satisfies the usually contraditory desire to shop ethically?  Not an easy queston to answer, especially if you are looking for something special which is both stylish and of high quality.  Recently, a Danish company called Nordgreen is aiming to help make that choice a little little less difficult, and may just have suceeded.  They have teamed up with top designer Jakob Wagner, to create a line of stunningly stylish timepieces for both men...

The Long Night of Museums - Die Lange Nacht der Münchner Museen

November 11, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Die Lange Nacht der Münchner Museen is an annual event held in various cities around Germany. For the price of one entrance ticket, members of the public are given access to various museums across the city for an entire night. In Munich this year, the 20th anniversary event is held on Saturday the 19th Oct, from 7pm to 2am.  For the admission price of 15 Eur, you gain access to around 90 participating museums, with the entrance ticket (the Lange Nacht Ticket) also doubling as a travel card...

Common sense techniques to win in the casino

November 11, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Today, physical and online casinos are one of the most profitable industries in the world, and that encourages many players to devise unique strategies to make money at the casino. But even though the game rooms have an established profit margin, you have the possibility to reduce it. Of course, the casino will always have its advantages, otherwise, no gambling company would still be surviving. It is very important that you pay attention to the following points to understand the background...

Grand Opera in Munich: Les Contes d`Hoffmann

November 11, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Munich. The grand opera Les Contes d`Hoffmann from Jacques Offenbach celebrates a huge success in the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. Hoffmann states: "Only the poet understands the Poet; only a romantic soul can experience romance". The opera begins straight away with the story. Hoffman, the poet, is not able to write a single word since he has fallen in love with Stella. Stella wants to make an assignation with him, but he shys away and hides from her. Due to his doubts about himself he...

My Forest Friend

November 11, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Hallo my friend, Mr. Forest
Nature cerates you
We exploit your goodness
Naturally created with God's will
Endowed with a package of trees
Of different varieties and species
A green zone well punctuated
With properly identical flowers and fruits
All beautiful and attractive
With an ecosystem that purifies air
And facilitates the life of other creatures
Oh! You are the center of attraction.
My natural friend knows how to give
Without hesitation and reluctance
The riches of Mr. Forest
Can only be...

Adam and Eve - by Masaaki Hasegawa

November 11, 2025 • 12:00 AM

This project aims to improve the social status of LGBT, especially female couples in the world, as many campaigns and publicities are focused on male couples. The objective of this project is to empower female couples around the world and strengthen their social status.
 
The artist, Masaaki, has painted two female models with pride colors and other colors: silver, black, and pink that represent homosexual women and the emotional and intelligent strength that they have. The front of the body is...

Three days awake at Southside

November 11, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Around 60,000 music enthusiasts gathered during the weekend of 21.06.19 - 23.06.19, celebrating their stars, life and themselves for three days. The 21st Southside Festival in Neuhausen ob Eck arrived with a strong line-up. Not only the weather presented itself Janus-faced at this year's Southside Festival. On the festival Friday the visitors still had to struggle with so-so rainy weather but towards the end the sun was shining brightly from the sky. Unfortunately, with the musical material...

Irish man seeks German lady after chance encounter

November 11, 2025 • 12:00 AM

The following story relates to a chance encounter at Dublin Airport on Saturday night, April 27th.  It concerns an Irish man named Wesley and a missed opportunity with an unknown German woman.  Wesley is keen to make contact with this woman and has penned the following plea for information.  In his own words: "My name is Wesley O Brien , 36 from Ireland . I don't live in Dublin but from the West of Ireland. I'm a Photographer but was in Dublin Airport that night because I was travelling to...

Alex Katz Art Exhibition at the Brandhorst Museum

November 11, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Born in 1927, Alex Katz is one of the most accomplished and influential American painters of the past fifty years, and he is still painting. Katz was painting at the same time as for example Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. He speaks about his art: "Cool and Hot", "Cooler than ever", "Something hot done in a cool way". His paintings show an "impersonal public art" that emphazises communication on an "intimate level"1. He likes to visualize the moment. The results are stylized excerpts from...

Artist showcases Europe's largest calligraphy work

November 11, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Video: Masaaki Hasegawa at the Museo Zapadores in Madrid (source: Mask Movement)
As part of his project "Connect People Thru Art Beyond Borders", the artist Masaaki Hasegawa (Tokyo, 1987) has devised the largest calligraphy work in Europe to date. It consists of a 1,926 square meter area in the Museo Zapadores of Madrid that represents a transition process of our world from chaos to coexistence through language. Hasegawa is interested in the abstraction of the concept of letter. Although the...

Nico Cartosio shares unforeseen Christmas video

November 11, 2025 • 12:00 AM

Neo-romantic composer Nico Cartosio shares unforeseen Christmas video for his brand new single 'Christmas On The Moon'. The tempestuous plotline and powerful visuals illustrate Cartosio's emotional composition, as tender piano keys guide the vulnerable violin across dramatic swells and subtle melancholic soundscapes. Nico Cartosio said, "Christmas is such a joyous time. But haven't you ever happened to feel unbearingly sad on this night? I believe those who are alone this Christmas would...

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München is one of the main stages for Cyprien Gaillard's latest film Retinal Rivalry, a groundbreaking work that takes us on a journey through time and beneath the surface of the city. Retinal Rivalry continues Gaillard's exploration of stereoscopic films, which he first began in his 2015 film...

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