The Sad Girl is a constant in Mainz – there are supposedly at least 70, some by the original artist, some knockoffs, This is a “for real” in the entrance…
35 square metres. (That’s close to 400 square feet for the colonial cousins. Very bigly, as they say…) So here you have the largest page of a Gutenberg bible in…
..in 1817 William Turner 1775-1851 English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist, known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. There’s a William Turner Route, a…
Liesbeth is a cafe on the Zollhafen in Mainz, tucked in next to the Kunsthalle in what used to be the engine shed for the port Port. It’s been there…
Lieblingsenkelin* (favourite granddaughter) Nicki Thoss, a highly talented ceramicist (and talented at pretty much any and everything she turns her hand to, actually, be it paper flowers, hand-printed Xmas cards…
Merck, a significantly large life sciences conglomerate, has its own Formula 1 team and its own philharmonic orchestra which (in a truncated form) performed a concert yesterday afternoon at the…
From the Book of John. 4:16 And Jesus did say to the throngs “Get thee to the artist in the Via Augustinus in the city known as Moguntiacum who doth…
Boehringer, the life science people in Ingelheim have supported this annual exhibition in the old town hall for 65 years.. They’re mostly focussed on a single artist (click on the…
This is the story of 4 significant sculptures by a significant living artist flanking the entrance to the world’s leading printing museum. The Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany. It’s…
Just don’t ask me how this tree opposite Mitternacht 18 squeezed into this pullover. Or swedderrr, as the colonials call them
Liesel Metten, who lives in Nieder-Olm, 4km down the B40, is more than a local hero. You’ll find her mythical and whimsical bronze figures in town squares and unexpected corners…
This detail of a window designed (and perhaps even made) by Marc Chagall in the St Stephan church at the top end of Mainz always brings me back to a…
I’ll drink to anything…. Blasius Spreng’s “Fastnachtsbrunnen” on the Schillerplatz
Or Back to Front, more like it Mainz is twinned with more places than you can shake a stick at. Watford, for example. (Cousin Graham asked me whether anyone from…
Boehringer is a major life science corporation based in Ingelheim, just around the corner – 22km, under an hour oN the bike – from here. A major employer in the…
Visited friends and potters of renown Michael Salzer and Beate Thiesmeyer yesterday in their studio in the hills above the Rhine. Got talking to Michael about techniques and he took…
My bowl, too. Our local fountain in Klaawinnerum
Or “Abteistrasse” When it’s really in Venison Gulley. Or Wildgraben, as they call it around here…
Didn’t know that I’d missed the Chagall windows in the Stephanskirche that much. (That, and making Kate‘s day…)
“Well, if Putin can orchestrate the Winter Olympics in sub-tropical Sochi,, I don’t see any paradox at all…” said the lead actor/producer/ticket collector of Zettels Theatre. Winery courtyard in the…
….for I am here to save theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee……. Balancing act on the Kulturufer in NQM Bingen
n in a series of n Corner Martinstrasse/Kästrich
The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, “How does it work?” The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, “How much will it cost?” The graduate with…
Damsel in nautical distress by Beate Thiesmeyer
… this is the classiest place I know to micturate. Or even take a leak… The Gents at the Rolandseck Station/Arp Museum/Interieur 253 restaurant
He’s back, if only in spirit, having fallen off the perch in 2011… A new James Rizzi (I always thought that the pronunciation would be italianate, but it’s not –…
Or up. Ingelheim
..at the Mirror Garden on Bingen’s Kulturufer
…marks the spot. The Kulturufer (Culture Foreshore) in NQM Bingen is a highly successful conversion from a dire railway shunting yard to the stunning location for the State Horticultural Show…
An 18 metre neon sculpture in the underground passageway leading to the Arp Museum in (NQM) Rolandseck. Designed by Richard Meier (think Getty Center, perched above the 405 in LA),…
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