In Brief
A Ceremonial Chord Change for John Cage's 639-year-long Concert
An organ recital of a piece by the composer began in 2001 and will run until 2640. This weekend, listeners gathered to hear its 14th chord change.
Berlin
Art
Is There a New Yiddish Contemporary Visual Art?
Since about the 1970s, a new and largely post-vernacular Yiddish culture has started to develop in many, often unexpected, locales around the world. A related visual aesthetic now seems to be emerging.
News
Reflecting on the Life of Rebeccah Blum, Accomplished Curator, Editor, and Translator
Friends and family remember Rebeccah Blum, who was killed in Berlin on July 22.
Art
The Realized Fantasy of Visiting an Empty Museum
I had previously wished to have the tourists and school groups disappear, but as Berlin museums reopen, it feels reassuring to see famous artworks still up, but also eerie to see them without a large audience.
Art
The Realized Fantasy of Visiting an Empty Museum
I had previously wished to have the tourists and school groups disappear, but as Berlin museums reopen, it feels reassuring to see famous artworks still up, but also eerie to see them without a large audience.
Art
Lawrence Abu Hamdan Knits Language to Power
The Voice Before the Law explores the ways in which linguistic uses and misuses are bound to legal systems.
Art
Sonia Gomes’s Sewn and Twisted Traces of History
The artist’s act of pulling materials apart and stitching them into a new form creates a tangible bridge between the past and the present.
News
Berlin Nightclubs Seek the Same Federal Protections as Theaters and Opera Houses
A nightclub advocacy group went before the German Parliament to request new laws that will protect the nation's clubs from gentrification.
Art
An Artist Presents Menopausal Women's Bodies as Powerfully Sexual
Inspired by Jean Genet’s 1950 homoerotic Un Chant D’Amour, Pauline Curnier Jardin's recent film Qu’un Sang Impur (2019) interrogates patriarchal credo through the lens of its unseen bodies.
News
A German Casino Worker Is Suing Ai Weiwei for Saying He Showed a “Nazi Attitude”
The world-renowned dissident artist, who is celebrated in the gambling community as a "Blackjack Guru," explained the story behind the lawsuit in a New York Times op-ed.
News
Official 3D Scans of Nefertiti Bust Are Released After Three-Year Battle
After years of refusal and controversy, German cultural authorities allowed artist and designer Cosmo Wenman to publish scans of the 3,364-year-old bust under a Creative Commons license.
Art
Enter an Eerie Nowhere Land, Where the Mundane Meets the Mythic
In Horizontal Vertigo: WangShui, the Julia Stoschek Collection hosts an exhibition of new works by the New York-based studio known for their explorations of technology, identity, and diaspora.