With more than a half-century of work behind her, Rainer goes out swinging with “Hellzapoppin’: What About the Bees?,” which takes on themes of race and resistance.
From the Austrian bad boy painter who ripped up the rule book to the last chance to see the Benin Bronzes in Germany; Rendez-vous is Euronews Culture s guide to some of the best art shows across Europe this week.
THE LOST ARCHITECTURE OF JEAN WELZ. BY PETER WYETH. DoppelHouse, 2022. 346 pages. WHEN IT COMES TO THE UR-HISTORY of modernist architecture, we all pretty much know the first few lines by heart. In the beginning there was nothing; the Earth was void, and without Corb; then Sullivan said “Let there be Wright,” and Loos and behold, Behrens begat Gropius begat Mies or something like that. Even other, sublimated ancestries (the “zones of silence,” as critic Reyner Banham once called them) long omitted from the grands récits of modernism have, by now, largely become part of the general conversation.
Oliver Bennett set out to enjoy the beer, gastronomy and culture of the Czech Republic, drinking Pils lager in Pilsen and making his own glass tankard in Prague.