I come from a family of free-thinkers, and it was never a tradition for us to sing Christmas songs. But shops started decorating for Christmas and blasting Christmas songs since October. Getting tired of the commercial songs that was played, I decided to compile my favorite Christmas songs into a playlist. Out of over 50 songs I liked, following is YK's selection of 25 favorites, in the order of the oldest to the newest:
1. Ding Dong Merrily on High
2. Hark the Herald Angels Sing
3. Adeste Fideles / O Come All Ye Faithful
4. Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle
5. Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht / Silent Night
6. The First Nowell / The First Noel
7. O Tannenbaum / O Christmas Tree
8. Winter Wonderland
9. Cantique Noel / O Holy Night / O Helga Natt
10. Mitt Hjerte Alltid Vanker
11. Deck the Halls
12. Away in a Manger
13. White Christmas
14. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
15. The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
16. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
17. Petit Papa Noël
18. Sleigh Ride
19. Christmas Time is Here
20. I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke
21. Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
22. El Burrito de Belén / Mi Burrito Sabanero
23. Last Christmas
24. All I Want for Christmas is You
25. Believe (The Polar Express)
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Friday, 4 November 2011
Wenn's anfaengt durch die Decke zu tropfen / When it Starts Dripping from the Ceiling
Where? Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
What? Wenn's anfaengt durch die Decke zu tropfen / When it Starts Dripping from the Ceiling
- an installation comprising a tower of wooden slats, under which a rubber trough was placed with a thin beige layer of paint representing dried rain water
Who created it? Martin Kippenberger
What happened? The rubber trough now gleams
Who done it? The cleaning lady has scrubbed the trough a month ago, thinking that the beige paint of 'dried rain water' was really just stains.
Worth? 800,000 EUR as determined by insurers
Before this incident, how many in the world has heard of Kippenberger, or this piece of work, or Ostwall Museum, or even Dortmund?
Kippenberger should be laughing in his grave - his painted stains was interpreted as real stains, i.e. he has successfully blurred the line between art and life!
All thanks to an overzealous cleaning lady, now more than 800,000 people all over the world knew about it, discussed it, and laughed about it.
That's worth more than 800,000EUR! Would it have inspired that much worldwide reaction left on its own with the collector?
Lots of artwork has to go through restoration anyway. And if the museum has really valued it that much, why was there no monitoring of the artworks and the 'damage' was found only a month later? What about CCTV footage? Where was the guard, if there's even one at all?
Most people relate this incident to a hilarious scene from "Bean: The Movie"
What? Wenn's anfaengt durch die Decke zu tropfen / When it Starts Dripping from the Ceiling
- an installation comprising a tower of wooden slats, under which a rubber trough was placed with a thin beige layer of paint representing dried rain water
Who created it? Martin Kippenberger
What happened? The rubber trough now gleams
Who done it? The cleaning lady has scrubbed the trough a month ago, thinking that the beige paint of 'dried rain water' was really just stains.
Worth? 800,000 EUR as determined by insurers
Photograph: Bernd Thissen/EPA
Before this incident, how many in the world has heard of Kippenberger, or this piece of work, or Ostwall Museum, or even Dortmund?
Kippenberger should be laughing in his grave - his painted stains was interpreted as real stains, i.e. he has successfully blurred the line between art and life!
All thanks to an overzealous cleaning lady, now more than 800,000 people all over the world knew about it, discussed it, and laughed about it.
That's worth more than 800,000EUR! Would it have inspired that much worldwide reaction left on its own with the collector?
Lots of artwork has to go through restoration anyway. And if the museum has really valued it that much, why was there no monitoring of the artworks and the 'damage' was found only a month later? What about CCTV footage? Where was the guard, if there's even one at all?
Most people relate this incident to a hilarious scene from "Bean: The Movie"
The hilarious disaster in the movie has made the James McNeil Whistler's painting "Whistler's Mother" so famous, that when I visited Musée d'Orsay in Paris, lots of tourists wanted to be photographed with it.
Who knows, the Kippenberger installation in Museum Ostwall may now become its most photographed piece.
Who knows, the Kippenberger installation in Museum Ostwall may now become its most photographed piece.
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