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Berlin Celebrates Diversity – The Carnival of Cultures Street Festival and Parade – by OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog contributor Evo Lucian

evan — Fri, 06 May 2011 06:48:37 +0000

The Carnival of Cultures

From June 10th to 13th 2011 Berlin once again hosts the Carnival of Cultures, a four-day street festival featuring a parade and parties throughout the Kreuzberg district. Approximately 1.45 million spectators from all over the world peacefully celebrated the cultural richness of the German capital at the 14th annual Carnival of Cultures in May 2009 [...] Continue Reading…

‘Very long dong’ mural bolsters German media rivalry

OTA-Berlin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:49:49 +0000

The “Very-Long-Dong” is not a North Korean rocket, but rather a mural on the side of a Berlin office building.

Berlin artist Peter Lenk created the “mural” some months ago at the behest of the TAZ newspaper, as a “shot at the bow” so to speak and to mock the Bild, whose building is right across the street.

It is more specifically aimed at [...] Continue Reading…

Tedious Werner Herzog honored by being appointed head of BERLINALE jury-panel

OTA-Berlin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:53:00 +0000

The German film-maker Werner Herzog, aged 67, will head the committee that select the winners of the 2010 Golden and Silver Bear awards next February.

Werner Herzog is perhaps the most mediocre, vacuous and tedious of modern German directors – not as cerebral and intellectual as his German contemporaries directors Rainer Werner Fassbaender and Volker Schlöndorff and not as popular and dynamic as Wim Wenders [...] Continue Reading…

Berlin Wall, Israeli Wall and Mexican Border wall – All wrong!!!

OTA-Berlin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:12:31 +0000

What is probably the most interesting, compelling and artistic commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is the WALL PROJECT taking place in Los Angeles.

Artists have provided works that show clear analogies between the Berlin Wall and the wall the Israelis have erected along the border with the occupied Palestinians and the wall the US has erected [...] Continue Reading…

Private Soviet art exhibition in Berlin

OTA-Berlin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:59:32 +0000

For the first time in Europe, a private art exhibition is being presented, followed by an auction,which is focused specifically on narrating the art historical period of Socialist Realism in the former Soviet Union.

On 6 November BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN – Art of Socialist Realism will open at the Jeschke-Van Vliet in Berlin. This exhibition will display a collection of 300 classics [...] Continue Reading…

World Art Prices on way down!

OTA-Berlin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:21:37 +0000

“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence,” once said the German philosopher Friedrich Nietsche. What he didn’t mention is that art is also a luxury, one that many people nowadays unfortunately can no longer afford.

The renowned Miami-based French art dealer Emmanuel Perrotin’s windows are now shut, with only the promise to reopen in December for Art Basel [...] Continue Reading…