museums, i believe, are really having a moment, and that s what i want to explore. this is amazing. so this is his studio. i can walk around, can i? he was painting the orient within the orient. when you see my work, you can easily link the concepts, let s say, or the technique, anything from them, as inspiring. i think that s rather wonderful. i m in istanbul, that great, entrancing, ancient megalopolis, once the capital of the byzantine and ottoman empires. lying on either side of the bosporus strait, it s a city that straddles two continents, europe and asia, so it feels like the perfect place to discover for myself the long, still evolving story of cultural exchange between east and west. i m starting at the pera museum, once an exclusive hotel in the heart of istanbul s diplomatic district. i can t think of anywhere else quite like it, a unique, privately run museum, with a collection exploring the relationship between east and west a centuries long exchange that culmi
Do you smell that . Motorbike exhaust, fish sauce, incense, the faraway smell of something . Is that Pork Grilling over charcoal . Vietnam. It could be no place else. Listen to me. Listen to me. There is no other way to see this city, hanoi, than from a motorbike or a scooter. To do otherwise would be to miss it all. It is one of the great pleasures of my life to join the river of people rushing through the streets. Vietnam. It grabs you and doesnt let you go. Once you love it, you love it forever. Ive been coming here since 2000, the first time id been in this part of the world, and its held a special place in my heart and my imagination since. I keep coming back, i have to. Vietnam has changed since last time i was here. Its changing every minute. But some things, for now, anyway, remain the same. Important things, like this stuff. Thats going to be good bun oc, first meal in hanoi, and its something they do here better than anywhere else. Okay. Im officially in hanoi now. Mm. Magic.
do you smell that? motorbike exhaust, fish sauce, incense, the faraway smell of something? is that pork grilling over charcoal? vietnam. it could be no place else . listen to me. listen to me. there is no other way to see this city, hanoi, than from a motorbike or a scooter. to do otherwise would be to miss it all. it is one of the great pleasures of my life to join the river of people rushing through the streets. vietnam. it grabs you and doesn t let you go. once you love it, you love it forever. i ve been coming here since 2000, the first time i d been in this part of the world, and it s held a special place in my heart and my imagination since. i keep coming back, i have to. vietnam has changed since last time i was here. it s changing every minute. but some things, for now, anyway, remain the same. important things, like this stuff. that s going to be good! bun oc, first meal in hanoi, and it s something they do here better than anywhere else. okay. i m official
and i really don t know where it will take me. waking up every day in a different country, creating projects, never really looking back, just being in the action, action, action, action. maybe that is why i have always been documenting it to keep a trace of it. the excuse of the art is the greatest pass ever. i could be kind of shy and can be afraid to talk to people, but when i do a project, i have to explain, i have come here by myself, with my own money, to try to do this project here with you, in your community, if it makes sense to you. then, of course, some people ask, what will this achieve? i always say, i don t know, let s see. it s almost like we do a pack of the unknown, we will do this, but i have no idea where it will take us. [noise] thank you. can you show your i. d.. [noise] here i am, a super max prison, with an inmate that has been incarcerated with teenagers, mainly because of the free strike. this is for maximum security
holocaust. there s never any upside letting joe biden speak in public. unfortunate for the warehouse sometimes you don t have a choice. disasters happen and when they do, the public expect somebody to pretend to be president. the american economy is currently a disaster. therefore joe biden had to talk. so his aides dutifully let him out to the podium to the agency something edifying about it. what happened next has got to be one of the weirdest residential briefings ever conducted. new economic numbers show the gdp has declined for two quarters in a row. that s the definition of a recession. we are in a recession. that s why joe biden had to hold the briefing. yet biden never once mentioned those numbers, not a single time. it was completely bizarre. biden announced there is no recession in the united states no matter what you may have noticed about your own country. i repeat there is no recession. thanks to the leadership of joe biden we can announce record potato harvests.