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Wednesday, 20 May 2015

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Read a tribute to Patrick D. Hazard written by one of the blogger’s editors, Dan Rottenberg . Rest in peace and poetry, Patrick....
Tuesday, 17 March 2015

The Mies Mess

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As we speak, a stupendous error in German culture is being revealed. The British architect David Chipperfield is simultaneously display...
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Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Coping with Copenhagen

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My favorite museum in the world is Louisiana , an hour by train North of Copenhagen in a village, Humlebaek, facing the Ore Sound which sepa...
Friday, 26 December 2014

The Wonders of Libraries

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I’ve been a card carrying library user since 1935 when the Bay City, MI Public Library gave a proud 8 year old his first free entrĂ©e. And se...
Monday, 24 November 2014

Catching Up with Walt Whitman

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It all began when I was driving a group of Beaver College (Glenside, PA., suburb of Philadelphia) students back from a night on the town (Ca...
Tuesday, 18 November 2014

A Failing Country

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I had to tell my college students, that I thought their country was about to fail. A hard way to start a class. But necessary. It all bega...
Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Hateful Irregularities

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A brilliant Swiss professor who lives on the floor below me in Weimar, on the faculty of Bauhaus Uni, when I asked him to comment on an “...
Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Zanine's Odysseys

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The Brazilian genius Jose Zanine Caldas had some seventieth birthday in 1989. Ten of his country's leading intellectuals (led by archit...
Sunday, 5 October 2014

Fresh Airs for Television

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The luckiest break in my professional career was getting a Carnegie grant at Penn to create the first course on mass culture in an Americ...
Thursday, 2 October 2014

Art Deco

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The most amazing thing happened to me yesterday: The largest book I have ever put in my hands appeared at the new book rack at the Anna Amal...
Monday, 22 September 2014

Media Nut

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Did I ever tell you how I became a media nut? It started generations ago as I entered graduate school in Cleveland where my uncle the Re...
Monday, 15 September 2014

Our Forgotten Bauhaus Women

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In the ten years I’ve been studying the history of the German Bauhaus , the legendary Weimar arts school that opened in 1919, one overwhelm...
Wednesday, 3 September 2014

The Nightmare of American Dreamers

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Weimar, Germany. As a Ph.D in American Civilization, this week has been the saddest in my life! The gross militarization of local police try...
Friday, 11 April 2014

Ai Wei Wei

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I have never had a more intriguing press opening than the one in Berlin yesterday. The dailies were all flashing front page critiques, b...
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Dr. Patrick D. Hazard
I read, write, and roam from my villa in Weimar where I live with my Ossi Frau Hilly and my seven year old third son, Danny.
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