Astrid Hiemer
Bio:
A cultural critic and writer, Astrid grew up after WW II in Hamburg, Germany, and emigrated to the United States in the 1960s. She was formerly the assistant director (Administrative Officer) of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT under Otto Piene, with whom she has worked in the past several years editing, translating, and researching for a major book about his life and career. While at The Center she knew and worked with many multi-media artists. In addition to professional work as an editor and translator she is also a poet, and writer of fiction. Most of her written work is accompanied by her own photographs.
Recent Articles:
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New Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Director Front Page
Pierre Terjanian, Ann and Graham Gund Director and CEO
By: - Apr 11th, 2025The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), announced today that Pierre Terjanian has been appointed its next Ann and Graham Gund Director and CEO. Currently the MFA’s Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Conservation, Terjanian succeeds Matthew Teitelbaum and will assume his new role on July 1, 2025.
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4/5/25 Worldwide Protests Front Page
Anti-Trump Demonstrations, Marches, Town/City-Halls and more
By: - Apr 07th, 2025April 2nd and April 5th, 2025, will be remembered in American History as the first full fledged Anti-Trump, Anti-Maga, Anti-Dodge, and for Democracy peaceful multi-faceted demonstrations. Senator Cory Booker, a Democrat from Connecticut, stood up at the podium in the Senate for 25 long hours (ending 4/2/25) and spoke without a break against the current Maga support in the House of Representatives and the Senate, against President Trump and his cabinet's policies and the chaos that has ensued since January 20th. Then, on April 5th, the People of America demonstrated in various ways in all of the 50 States of the USA by the millions!
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Better on Paper at Wellesley's Davis Museum Front Page
Focus on Acquisitions
By: - Mar 10th, 2025Through June 1, the exhibition, Better on Paper, spotlights and celebrates some of the thousands of newly acquired and previously unseen works of art on paper, including prints, drawings, photographs, books, and other objects, acquired by the Davis Museum and the Wellesley College Library Special Collections over the last decade.
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European International Book Art Biennale, 2.25 - 3.22.25 Front Page
National Museum of Romanian Literature, Bucharest, Romania
By: - Mar 09th, 2025"The book has a long history and tradition, but since the beginning of the 20th century it has started to disappear physically and become virtual." Dorothea Fleiss has initiated and curated a number of book art exhibitions. The 2025 Biennale is dedicated to students and young artists.
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75th Berlinale, February 13 --23, 2025 Front Page
Berlin's Yearly Film Festival
By: - Feb 24th, 2025Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, is, once more, the center of the 75th Berlinale, as it has been for many years. It is cold in the city, but the area around the film festival is crowded with spectators, press people and the arrival and departure of the film elite from all over the world. Happy and exciting times are here again, as always during the festival times, this year from February 13 – 23, 2025.
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Komische Oper, Berlin - Pferd Frisst Hut Front Page
Horse Eats Hat, a Comic Opera Extravaganza
By: - Feb 13th, 2025On February 8, 2025 was opening night for "Pferd Frisst Hut" (Horse Eats Hat), the hilarious and wildly entertaining comic opera extravaganza written and composed by Herbert Groenemeyer for the Komische Oper, Berlin. Sold out and enjoyed by the audience, this musical work, coproduced by the Theater Basel, allowed the entire ensemble to go wild on stage.
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Unser Deutschlandmärchen, at Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin Front Page
Our German Fairy Tale, by Hakan Savas Mican
By: - Jan 29th, 2025The Turkish boy Dincer (Taner Sahintürk) is compelled to tell his life's experience in Germany when his mother Fatma (Sesede Terziyan) is laid to rest. The story comes alive on the stage of the Gorki Theater in Berlin, Germany, that is committed to telling political and socio-cultural stories in Germany.
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Komische Oper, Berlin Front Page
Robinson Crusoe
By: - Jan 15th, 2025The concert version of the light opera by Jacques Offenbach of the Komische Oper, Berlin left wishes open for a full fledged opera performance. The stage setting, at their temporary house located at the Schiller Theater in the Bismarckstrasse in Berlin, seemed at bit crowded. Nevertheless.....
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Dance in August, Berlin, 2024 Front Page
Tanz im August, International Festival
By: - Sep 02nd, 2024The 36th 'Tanz im August' took place from August 15th – 31st in Berlin. It is the most important European dance festival showcasing contemporary dance tendencies around the globe.
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The Great American Mousical Front Page
The Legacy Theatre
By: - Jul 24th, 2024The plot is simple; a Broadway theater is about to be demolished while in the basement, a company of mice rehearses their own “musical.”
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Our Surreality: At Eclipse Mill Gallery, N. Adams, MA Front Page
June 7 to July 7, 2024
By: - May 28th, 2024Our Surreality Lives: Michelle Wiley, 2020 to 2021 and Astrid Hiemer, 2023 to 2024, at the Eclipse Mill Gallery, 243 Union Street, North Adams from June 7 to July 7. Opening Celebration, Friday, June 7, 6-8 pm. The gallery will be open from Thursdays to Sundays, noon to 6 pm . See how we celebrate Surrealism and DADA at 100!
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Eclipse Mill Gallery: Spring Forward, until May 27 Front Page
Part of ArtWeek Berkshires, 24
By: - May 16th, 2024ArtWeek Berkshires, a county-wide celebration, includes the Eclipse Mill's show, 'Spring Forward: Recent Work from 27 Eclipse Mill Artists.' The overall festival takes place from May 17 to 27, and the Opening at the Mill will be on May 18 from 6pm to 8 pm. You are invited!
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Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation Front Page
Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA)
By: - Mar 22nd, 2024On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Not long after that, John Quincy Adams Ward (1830-1910) created the bronze sculpture “The Freedman.” It depicts a semi-nude seated figure in the act of his removing shackles. Resembling the iconic Roman “Boxer,” the work was arguably the first bronze sculpture to depict an African American.
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The 74th Berlinale Front Page
The International Flm Festival in Berlin
By: - Feb 26th, 2024The 74th Berlinale is Europe's first international film festival of the year. Always a glamorous happening with stars galore, this year's events from February 15-25th, 2024 have drawn to a close.
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Anatevka at Komische Oper, Berlin Front Page
Better known as Fiddler on the Roof
By: - Feb 17th, 2024Most people know the story of Tevye, the milkman, as 'Fiddler on the Roof.' What started in the1960's as a sensational Broadway musical by Jerome Robbins, has kept all of its allure. 'Anatevka,' here named after the location of the action, is still the wonderful same.
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The Golden Cockerel at Komische Oper, Berlin Front Page
Der Goldene Hahn by N. Rimsky-Korsakov
By: - Jan 31st, 2024Barrie Kosky, former director at the Komische Oper, Berlin, directed Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's last opera "Der Goldene Hahn" (The Golden Cockerel) at the Schiller Theater, the temporary house of the Komische Oper during its renovation.
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Sartre's "Dirty Hands," at Berliner Ensemble Front Page
Opened Jan. 26 in Berlin, Germany
By: - Jan 29th, 2024Opening night of Jean-Paul Sartre's "Die Schmutzigen Hände" (Dirty Hands) on January 26th, 2024 at the famed Berliner Ensemble in Berlin, Germany was sold out.
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A. Baker, The Big Picture Show, at Eclipse Mill Gallery and Front Page
E. Berland/ W. Beavers, Somatic Movement Workshops
By: - Oct 12th, 2023E. Alexander Baker, Erika Berland and Wendell Beavers are all residents at the Eclipse Mill in North Adams, Massachusetts. The mill offers live and work spaces for creative people. Baker’s exhibition can be seen in the Eclipse Mill gallery until October 29 with hours from Thursday to Sunday, 11 am to 6pm.
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Tanz im August in Berlin Front Page
With 19 World-Wide Dance Companies
By: - Sep 02nd, 2023Tanz im Augus is the Berlin showcase for contemporary international dance. Organized, as usually, by the theater Hebbel am Ufer (HAU).
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Compagnie Käfig at Jacob’s Pillow Front Page
Final Company in Residence, 2023 Season
By: - Aug 29th, 2023For PIXEL, by Compagnie Käfig, today based near Lyon, France, ten male Hip Hop dancers, French style, a woman contortionist, a roller-skater, small robots carrying tiny lights, and a huge metal hoop shared and interacted on stage with highly sophisticated projections, music, and sounds.
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Martha Graham Dance Company at Jacob’s Pillow Front Page
The Oldest American Dance Group
By: - Aug 22nd, 2023The venerable and totally contemporary Martha Graham Dance Company was in residence from August 16 to August 20 at Jacob's Pillow. The dancers gave memorable and also frenzied performances.....
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Complexions Contemporary Ballet, at Jacob’s Pillow Front Page
A Most Powerful Ballet Company
By: - Aug 15th, 2023Perhaps, it’s not accidental that 'Complexions' followed the 'Hip Hop Festival.'The performance started with an excerpt of 'Hissy Fits, 2006,' to ongoing very loud percussion, sounding like drum beats to, as per program, J.S. Bach music. And the music mostly continued at a high decimal, just like hip hop.
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Hip Hop Across The Pillow at Jacobs Pillow Front Page
A Festival inside the 2023 Summer Dance Festival
By: - Aug 07th, 2023Hip Hop Across The Pillow was curated by Melanie George and Ali Rosa-Salas. We were fortunate enough to catch the very last totally engrossing performance yesterday.
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(Not Entirely) Black and White, by Nelson and Fried Front Page
Show at the Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA
By: - May 20th, 2023This exhibition in North Adams ends on May 29 and so we also introduce the Old Stone Mill Center in Adams, MA, on Rt. 8, outside of downtown, direction to S. Adams. Both are worth a visit!
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Strindberg's Totentanz at Berliner Ensemble Front Page
August Strindberg's Play of 1900
By: - Mar 11th, 2023August Strindberg's "Totentanz" had its opening in Berlin at Bertolt Brecht's famed theater, the Berliner Ensemble. Written in 1900 it is one of those plays that lets one shudder about the senselessness and cruel relationship some couples endure and call it a marriage.
