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May 11, 2024 · Kirsty Bell. The Artist’s House. From Workplace to Artwork (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2013) → read more; Phil Collins. Attending Intently to You (Art in America, Oct Issue, 2013) Sunrise to Sunset. T.J. Wilcox talks to Kirsty Bell (frieze, Issue 157, 2013) Let’s Get Together. ‘Painting Forever!’ (frieze, Issue 157, 2013)
Sep 7, 2022 · THE UNDERCURRENTS: A Story of Berlin by Kirsty Bell. When we first glimpse Kirsty Bell, she is on her own, a foreigner in Berlin, dealing with a pool of water on her kitchen floor. Her German...
The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the centre of great historical changes, but also smaller domestic ones.
Mar 10, 2022 · With sleuthing interest and novelistic flair, Kirsty Bell’s The Undercurrents has ruptured familiar terrain. The book’s subject, Berlin, is portrayed as a thing in motion, captured through a compound lens of culture, hard history and memoir.
Mar 9, 2022 · The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of biography, memoir and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the centre of great historical changes, but also smaller domestic ones.
Jan 1, 2022 · When her marriage breaks down, Kirsty Bell - a British-American art critic, adrift, in her mid-forties - becomes fixated on the history of her building and of her adoptive city. She came to Berlin in 2001, and moved into this house in 2014 with her then-husband and two sons.
The Undercurrents. A Story of Berlin. Humane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories.
