Kunst der deutschen Romantik: Caspar David Friedrich 1. Was erfahren wir über die Familie von Caspar David Friedrich? Caspar David Friedrich ist in Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern an der Ostsee 1821 geboren. In Pommern — besonders an der Insel Rügen — hat er eine Liebe für die Landschaft entwickelt. 2. Was erfahren wir über seinen Charakter? […]
Auf engstem Raum: Michael Wolf und das Leben in der Metropole Michael Wolf arbeitet als freischaffender Dokumentarfotograf in Deutschland. Wolf ist ein Beobachter des Leben der Städte der Fotografie benutzt um das Leben zu verstehen und dadurch eine sehr relevante Kunst zu schaffen. In seine Fotografen beobachtet Wolf das Leben in Hong Kong und andere […]
Pieter Bruegel der Ältere, “Die niederländischen Sprichwörter” (The Netherlandish Proverbs) (1559) “Die niederländischen Sprichwörter” (The Netherlandish Proverbs) (1559) is a masterpiece of Netherlandish art by Pieter Bruegel der Ältere. 1 Was ist der erste Eindruck, wenn man das Bild sieht? Mein erster Eindruck des Bildes ist ein verwirrtes Durcheinander von Menschen, Tieren und Szenen. […]
Hans im Glück Pauline Park Hans im Glück ist ein Märchen der Gebrüder Grimm; von der Sammlung “Kinder- und Hausmärchen” ist is nicht am tiefsten und vielleicht denken seine Leser daß es ein. Einfaches Kindermärchen ist. An einem Niveau ist es nur eine Geschichte eines Dummkopfs der einen Klopfen Gold für einem Pferd getauscht […]
If 2017 was the year of travel, 2018 was the year of staying at home. I spent five whole weeks in Europe last year: two in Norway, one in Iceland and two in Spain. This year, I didn’t leave the city even once; but it was a year crowded with incident nonetheless. I continued to […]
by Pauline Park 23andme tells me I’m Korean, Chinese and Japanese, but in fact, while I was born in Korea, I have no Korean genes or any Chinese or Japanese DNA either; and therein hangs a tale… I came across this curious map (http://brilliantmaps.com/europe-dna-borders/ “If European Borders Were Drawn By DNA Instead of Ethnicity,” 25 […]
Tolkien & “The Silmarillion”: cultural influences & mythopoeia in the shaping of an epic by Pauline Park “The Silmarillion” is J.R.R. Tolkien’s longest work and arguably his most complex; it is the work that took Tolkien the longest to write and remained unfinished at the time of his death, to be put together as a […]
LGBT rights & progressive politics in the age of Trump Pauline Park LGBTQ Symposium York College City University of New York 29 November 2018 I’m honored by the invitation to speak to you today and keynote this LGBTQ symposium at York College. I’d like to begin by thanking Prof. Larry Tung for helping to arrange […]
Nancy Pelosi & the LGBT political establishment: the dynamics of community representation in a corrupted political system by Pauline Park After two years of raging against Donald Trump, Democrats retook the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections on 6 November 2018, gaining “a net total of at least 37 seats, 14 more than the […]
Danni Askini: Trump’s first trans refugee is seeking asylum in Sweden: here’s why you should care by Pauline Park The word ‘refugee’ conjures up images of people of color fleeing war, persecution and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and other poor and war-torn regions of the world; someone like Danni Askini would be the […]
Berlin: living a moment in history on the Tag der deutschen Einheit (3 Oktober 1990) by Pauline Park Germans celebrated the Tag der deutschen Einheit on 3 October 2018 with considerable less enthusiasm than they did the original Day of German Unity back in 1990; twenty-eight years later, many might not recall the extraordinary euphoria that […]
Avital Ronell & Judith Butler: a cautionary tale of power & accountability in academiaby Pauline Park 2017 was the year of reckoning for men who had long engaged in sexual harassment with impunity. Ronan Farrow broke the story of Harvey Weinstein’s long and sordid history of sexual harassment and sexual assault as the most powerful […]