James Cameron's blockbuster "Avatar 2" breaks all records in cinemas worldwide.
A sign that culture is back.
The Munich houses are also happy about the increasing number of visitors.
And now enough with the bad forecasts.
Much was reported and annoyed about a certain reluctance on the part of culture lovers after the pandemic.
But the more people complain publicly that the theatres, cinemas, concert halls and museums are less well attended than “before Corona”, the more this negative trend seeps into the subconscious of us herd animals.
Bräsig we feel confirmed in our own post-lockdown comfort.
If the others don't go out anymore, you don't seem to be missing anything yourself.
So why get up and stumble into the cold, dark world out there when Netflix and Co. can also deliver it to your home?
JR exhibition in the Kunsthalle Munich was a huge success
Precisely because it's like a round of "Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game" at home in the long run.
A video game where you design menus as a chef.
Digital.
You can do it and learn a lot about top cuisine.
But how it tastes, how it smells, how it feels, that's no substitute for a digital program.
And now the good news: Many people seem (again) to have an appetite for analog, direct experience.
The film "Avatar 2" has broken the two billion mark at the box office worldwide these days (read here: our film review of "Avatar 2: The Way of Water").
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Queuing for the art: At the weekend, many wanted to see JR in the Kunsthalle Munich before the end of the exhibition.
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Or JR: As reported, the street artist's exhibition in the Kunsthalle Munich ended at the weekend - and people were queuing to watch it again just before it was almost over.
The crowning glory of a show that has been fantastically attended by around 135,000 visitors since the end of August.
“We are happy that we were able to show JR's impressive projects in Munich.
He wasn't that well known in Germany.
We are all the more pleased that the exhibition was so enthusiastically received by young and old and that everyone reacted so positively to JR's concern: to change the view of the world with art," confirms Kunsthalle boss Roger Diederen.
The catalog published by Hirmer is now out of print.
Hirmer boss Thomas Zuhr: "An unusual number of young people approached me,
to get a catalogue.
A great success.” (You can find our exhibition review of the JR show in the Kunsthalle Munich here.)
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Everyone listen up!
The culture is alive!
You could experience it in person when street art star JR animated the art campaign at Munich's Odeonsplatz.
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A show well worth seeing is also coming to an end soon in the Freising Diocesan Museum: the special exhibition “Dance on the Volcano” can be seen there until January 29, 2023.
Since the reopening of the fascinating house on Freising's Domberg, museum boss Christoph Kurzer really can't complain about a lack of visitors.
“Of course, initially we benefited from the reopening hype.
But the good thing is: the enthusiasm continues.
People come to us from all over the world,” he says happily.
And in the knowledge that treasures like Caravaggio's "Medusa" can only be seen here in the temporary volcano exhibition, the number of visitors has been rising steeply for several weeks.
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Last chance: Caravaggio's "Medusa" only hangs briefly in the special exhibition "Dance on the Volcano" in the Diocesan Museum in Freising.
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Many people also see who walks past the Munich art foyer.
"In fact, I can say that we were always very well attended during the pandemic, except of course during the museum lockdown," says director Isabel Siben.
Photography draws people in: the recent show starring Arno Rafael Minkkinen "was a real crowd pleaser," as was the art by Magnum photographer Inge Morath on view now.
“Last Sunday, for example, there were more than 700 visitors to the exhibition.
And during the week it's 100 to 150 a day."
Gerhard Polt and the Well brothers seem to be keen on theater: their comedy “A scheene Leich” will premiere in the Munich Kammerspiele on January 28, 2023 – all performances up to the end of February are almost sold out.
You can only secure a few scattered individual tickets or hope for returns at the box office.
That's how it is at the Volkstheater: when the Jazzrausch Bigband provides three Rambazamba shows here on February 11th and 12th, 2023, you have to hurry to get tickets.
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Crowd puller: Gerhard Polt will soon be coming back to the Munich Kammerspiele.
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The Munich Literaturhaus reports that the reading by the German book prize winner Kim de l'Horizons (“Blood Book”) on January 23, 2023 is completely “sold out”. you can join the reading for five euros.
How about using a laptop in the Literaturhaus-Brasserie Oskar Maria.
Plus a glass of champagne.
Live the culture!
