Bears in Trees and Fish in Boxes: Art Night Berlin

    

    If you took the time to slog through April's open gallery weekend,

    you might have found a handful of really interesting pieces.

    Here are some of my favorites.

    Mesmerizing pencil drawings on the walls

    

    Mesmerizing pencil drawings on the floor 

    (complemented by my glitter shoes)

    Fish in boxes

 

    An elephant stuck in a tree that really looked like a bear from the back

    Ai WeiWei's trees sans bears and sans Ai Wei Wei

    

    Some impressively large and layered collage drawings

    (use the feet for scale)

   
    And my winner of the night ended up being this extremely beautiful
    short film that used reflections to create what ended up looking like
    an animated impressionist portrait.

    Gorgeous!

Now That is an Excellent Question.

 Ai Wei Wei's show opened in Berlin last night without him.
 Any thoughts on that, China?

We Can Work it Splice by Splice

    There is some really great work up
    at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum right now.
    One of the best things I saw today was a video recreating one of
    Glenn Gould's most important recordings by splicing together thousands
    of samples from amateur performance videos uploaded on YouTube and
    projecting them on two enormous screens, side by side.

    Not only did this cacophonous installation offer some extremely compelling
    glimpses and juxtapositions of people, animals, instruments,
    and vintage equipment...

                                           But it sounded great too!

Well done, Cory Arcangel, that was a lot of work!