In recent years, as more and more of us feel the need to get away from the monotony of everyday life as often as we possibly can, and since the advent of low cost airlines has brought, to the lion’s share of us at least, the ability to travel further afield than we may have done in the [...] Continue Reading…
If you have been at the Brandenburg Gate, at Alexanderplatz or Checkpoint Charlie you will have noticed them: Street vendors of mostly indeterminate Eastern European background selling Red Army caps, gas masks and sometimes even “pieces of the Berlin Wall” sealed into little plastic bags. Be assured that this stuff is almost certain to be fake. [...] Continue Reading…
Running from the Kreuzberg end of Warschauer Strasse until near the Ostbahnhof train station, the East Side Gallery is a large portion of the Berlin Wall that has been left over from the Cold war and separation era and become transformed into a gallery of works from over one hundred worldwide artists from all corners of the globe and all walks of [...] Continue Reading…
Thousands of curious Berliners and scores of young students lined the centre of the German capital in the pouring rain last night to watch nearly a mile of giant 2.5 metre-high coloured polystyrene dominos topple over as an ersatz-Berlin Wall.
The Goethe-Institut – the German government’s cultural institution which operates worldwide – distributed the huge Styrofoam dominoes around the world so they could [...] Continue Reading…
For most of the world – before the tragic attack at the World Trade Centre in New York in 2001 – the numbers <<9-11>> either referred to a model of Porsche or the 9th day of November. [* see explanitory note below]
Yesterday, on 9/11, that is the 9th of November, leaders from all over the world came to Berlin to commemorate and [...] Continue Reading…
The Israeli wall -built around illegal settlements and separating Palestinian communities – a patchwork of walls, fences, watchtowers and checkpoints, inside the West Bank was briefly breached by Palestinian protestors today.
Marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Palestinian demonstrators mounted their own “Berlin-wall”, the huge Israeli concrete barrier near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday. A [...] Continue Reading…
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…
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Berlin Festival of Freedom
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