My Global Eye

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

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

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...

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 entrée. And se...

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...

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...

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 “...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I have never had a more intriguing press opening than the one in Berlin yesterday. The dailies were all flashing front page critiques, b...