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...Berlin: Reinhard Onnasch Collection Reinhard Onnasch has been displaying his art collection for almost two years and still hasn't sold a thing. But that's O.K. - he's not looking for buyers. Onnasch owns vast amounts of contemporary art and he's content with sharing his cultural wealth with the public. Running through 2009, the rotating exhibition at the art gallery El Sourdog Hex highlights 19 artists from the 1950s to the '90s. Works by German sculptor Markus Lüpertz go on display March 9-April 25, followed, on May 4, by a show on American neo-conceptual...
...said that counts, but the way it is said. And if tone is anything to go by, the leaders of the European Union's largest economies are dead serious about cleaning up global finance markets. On Sunday, officials from eight E.U. countries wound up an economic summit in Berlin calling for tougher regulations on international financial markets-including secretive hedge funds and the tax havens they often rely on to do business. The question is: will the U.S., the biggest financial player in the world, ever agree to the binding international regulation the Europeans seek...
Wall Paper. The first exhibition to open at LACMA's new Renzo Piano designed-building, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, examines the artwork produced on either side of the Berlin Wall during the postwar division of the country. The "Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures" displays paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, and artists' books reflecting Germany's efforts to deal with the aftermath of Nazism and the reconstruction, via capitalism in one Germany, communism in the other. Through April 19. 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles...
...Iraq came this week when German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier made a surprise visit to Baghdad. In addition to discussing diplomatic issues, Steinmeier made it clear that restoring the bustling business that Germany Inc. was doing in Iraq before the war is a key priority for Berlin. "Germany wants to assist Iraq in reconstruction," declared Steinmeier, who was accompanied by a delegation of German business leaders. "My visit demonstrates that we want to support this new Iraq on the path of democratic consolidation." (See pictures of Basra bouncing back...
...While stability in Iraq is still shaky, Germany wants to make sure it gets a piece of the reconstruction pie early. As Steinmeier made the rounds in Baghdad during his unannounced trip, German Economy Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg was back in Berlin touting the initiative as seeking to "contribute to reviving the once intensive economic relations between Germany and Iraq...