German Expressionism

Babylon Berlin Breakdown – Symbolism, MK ULTRA, Cults & Transhumanlsm

 In this recent breakdown I cover the amazing revelations in the 3 seasons of the Tom Tykwer/German government production Babylon Berlin set in Weimar Germany. Babylon Berlin is a Neo-noir detective drama that centers around a traumatized WW1 soldier named Gereon who works as an undercover agent and spy as a local detective. The […]

The Artistic Representation of War and Peace, Politics and the Global Crisis

Contemporary art is often criticised as pointless or overvalued by art market elites. Even the word ‘artist’ has lost much of its meaning. The many ongoing global socio-political crises seem to make even the idea of art fade into insignificance. Most art either reflects local reality (landscapes, cityscapes, portraits) or internal ‘reality’ (surrealism, conceptual art). But there are artists (in this case, I will focus on painters) who do not shy away from depicting the difficulties facing ordinary people or the elites who create those difficulties in the first place.