Astrid Hiemer
Bio:
A cultural critic and writer, Astrid grew up after WW II in Hamburg, Germany, and emigrated to the United States in the 1960s. She was formerly the assistant director (Administrative Officer) of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT under Otto Piene, with whom she has worked in the past several years editing, translating, and researching for a major book about his life and career. While at The Center she knew and worked with many multi-media artists. In addition to professional work as an editor and translator she is also a poet, and writer of fiction. Most of her written work is accompanied by her own photographs.
Recent Articles:
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Victoria Jefferies: A Garden as a Work of Art Front Page
Or Gardening as an Artistic Activity
By: - Sep 18th, 2022"A Garden as a Work of Art ~ Or Gardening as an Artistic Activity" -- This garden poses a statement as well as a question. So, please follow the work described in this collaborative project and decide for yourself.
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"Mother Tongue" at Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin Front Page
By Argeninian playwright Lola Arias
By: - Sep 16th, 2022The Gorki Theater in Berlin, the most socially engaged stage in Berlin, has opened its season with 'Mother Tongue,' a work by the Argentinian playwright Lola Arias.
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EXIL at Berliner Ensemble, Berlin Front Page
Adaptation of Lionel Feuchtwanger's EXIL
By: - Sep 15th, 2022The director, Luk Perceval, turned L. Feuchtwanger's book EXIL into a 3 1/2 hour long journey for audiences and ensemble.
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Dance in August, Berlin Front Page
34th International Dance Festival
By: - Aug 29th, 2022The 34th edition of the International Dance Festival in Berlin has drawn to a close. From August 5th-27th, 2022, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) showcased in 10 locations throughout Berlin and with 21 productions what is good, new, and exciting in contemporary dance worldwide.
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Beth Galston at Chesterwood Stockbridge MA Front Page
Ice Forest Installation at Woodland Gallery
By: - Aug 16th, 2022On opening day, August 12, we went on one of our Berkshire country drives to South County to celebrate Beth Galston and her installation, 'Ice Forest.'
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Baskets and Bowls ~ A Collection Front Page
Also at BAM Museum, North Adams, MA
By: - Jul 25th, 2022This article extends a photo/word installation at the Berkshire Art Museum, North Adams, MA. The installation can be seen at BAM until October 2022 as part of the exhibition 'Artists of the Thursday Chinese Dinner Group,' where 27 are participating. The museum's primary reason is to show Eric Rudd's oeuvre of sculptures created during 50 years. Both, the permanent and temporary shows are well worth a visit!
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2022 Berkshire Mountains Faerie Festival, Adams, MA Front Page
Return After Three Years
By: - Jun 20th, 2022Last Saturday marked the return of the Berkshire Mountains Faerie Festival after three years, the fifth celebration since 2016. Cold weather and stormy winds could not keep away faeries and fair minded goblins from near and far.
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Rabatt, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin Front Page
A Serious Issue as a Farce
By: - Apr 15th, 2022Rabatt (discount), the newest production at the Gorki Theater in Berlin is a hilarious farce about a very serious issue – the burials of poor people in the world of the well to do.
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Berliner Ensemble, Berlin Front Page
God Is Not Bashful
By: - Apr 05th, 2022Gott Ist Nicht Schuechtern (God is not bashful) received its re-opening at the New Stage of the Berliner Ensemble in Berlin at the end of March 2022. It is now more appropriate with the war raging in Ukraine.
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Tanzplattform, HAU, Berlin, Germany Front Page
Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) hosts dance again
By: - Mar 22nd, 2022Berlin is dancing again, despite the rumblings of war from the Ukraine. Despite this horrible situation Germany tries to keep going. Against all odds, the Tanzplattform Deutschland returned in 2022.
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Lyudmila Dakhova, Artist In Ukraine Front Page
She is still making art now…
By: - Mar 16th, 2022Lyudmila Dakhova wrote in a message to us just a few days ago: "Art is civilization." And when we watch the news, Lyudmila is never far from our thoughts.
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Schwanda at Komische Oper, Berlin Front Page
The Bagpipe Player
By: - Mar 07th, 2022After a slow opening in Praha, Czech Republic, in 1927 Schwanda, der Dudelsackpfeifer (Schwanda, the bagpipe player) by Jaromir Weinberger turned into a huge success around the Western World - and before Hitler came to power.
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Queen Lear at Gorki Theater - Berlin, Germany Front Page
A perhaps foreboding production for Europe/World
By: - Feb 26th, 2022Everything is upside down in this production. A faint semblance to Shakespeare's King Lear remains as in a fever dream, or better yet as a trip beyond borders of human sanity.
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72nd Berlinale - Germany Front Page
February 10-20, 2022
By: - Feb 24th, 2022Chapeau! An amazing undertaking has drawn to a close in Berlin, Germany. Amid still active Covid-19, Marietta Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian, the heads of the film festival Berlinale, brought about the 72nd international film festival in real time.
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Side By Side Front Page
Curators, Sharon Carson and Betty Vera
By: - Feb 21st, 2022Writing about an exhibition or installation in poetic form is a first for me ~ come see!
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Wellfleet Oysters on Sale in North Adams, MA Front Page
All About Oysters
By: - Jan 22nd, 2022It’s known from coast to coast that Wellfleet Oysters are one of the best! When we saw the sign for Wellfleet Oysters for $ 0.99/each at our nearest grocery store, Big Y, in North Adams – we had to buy a dozen.
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Invitation to a Cheese Tasting Lunch Food
Have a Cheese Tasting - Not Wine Tasting
By: - Jan 10th, 2022Hey, it was Fun! And a special lunch as well. We invite you to hold your own cheese tasting and we will post your results on Berkshire Fine Arts as well....C'mon!
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Ceramics, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA Front Page
In the Expanded Field
By: - Nov 02nd, 2021Ceramic art works and products have increased substantially in size and expression over the last ten or more years. The sky is the limit here at the current MoCA exhibition and the energy was palpable in the galleries during a rainy Saturday.
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Die Dreigroschenoper at the Berliner Ensemble Front Page
By Bertold Brecht, Music by Kurt Weill
By: - Oct 19th, 2021It turned into a shocking success, the opening of the Dreigroschenoper (Three Penny Opera) in November 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin. Now, almost 100 years later, Bertolt Brecht's work with the music by Kurt Weill, is back at its original showing, now called the Berliner Ensemble at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin.
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Mahagonny, Komische Oper, Berlin Front Page
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
By: - Oct 11th, 2021What startet 1930 as the first opera cooperation between the playwright Bertolt Brecht and the composer Kurt Weill may well turn out to be the last big opera in the 2021/22 season. Mahagonny is being presented at the Komische Oper Berlin with Barrie Kosky as director.
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Noorrrraaaaaaa after Ibsen Front Page
The Gorki Theater, Berlin
By: - Sep 21st, 2021Just be aware. The premiere of Nora at Berlin's smallest theatre, The Gorki Theater, offers anything but the expected story line of Henrik Ibsen's famous 1879 play about a woman stepping out of a comfortable upper middle class family life to become independent.
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Memories of Atrocities to Come – Front Page
Published with Ref. to 9/11, WWII, and Today
By: - Sep 09th, 2021'Memories of Atrocities to Come:' Written at night, edited at daytime - published in remembrance of 9/11 - atrocities of WWII - and of today....
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Collage Brain, by Lynn Gall Front Page
Insights, Ideas, Inspiration
By: - Aug 24th, 2021Lynn Gall started working as a collagist more than 15 years ago. First, while living in Bristol, in the United Kingdom, in a flat with very little space to call her studio; in fact, she had not much more than a desk and some storage space for her material. in 2019 she published in New York City a 269 page handbook with 120 full color images. She also makes a myriad of suggestions: 'how to create successful collages.'
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Berlin, Tanz im August - 2021 Front Page
Berliner Festspiele
By: - Aug 23rd, 2021Tanz im August (no translation necessary) opened the way for live performances with and for the public after Covid-19 had stopped all cultural activities since late last year.
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The Artist Erika Marquardt Front Page
Born 1938 in Berlin, Germany. She died in 2021 in Newburyport, MA
By: - Jun 21st, 2021Erika Marquardt was an extraordinary woman, painter and artist. We were dear friends and I have followed her and Susan Erony's work since 1995. The rare collaboration between those two painters of more than 1000 small paintings ( 7"x10") lasted from 1998 to 2006. And they also collaborated on a large triptych. Altogether an amazing feat!
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