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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...
Sirens breaking the silence of the night, cars engulfed by meter-high flames. This is not a scene from the banlieues of Paris, but from the trendy Eastern Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg, where in recent weeks an ongoing battle against gentrification has intensified. In the past two months alone, 29 cars - mostly luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW and Porsche - have been set ablaze in Berlin (police believe left-wing extremists are to blame). In a letter published online in January, a leftist radical group called BMW (Bewegung für militanten Widerstand, or Movement for Militant Resistance) admitted...
...German capital, which this year commemorates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, has undergone rapid changes in the past few years. Right after the wall came down, there was an abundance of cheap living space, especially in the East, where dozens of abandoned apartments - and even entire apartment buildings - were just waiting for squatters to move in. Today most of the squats have been renovated and transformed into legal, more upscale housing. (See pictures of the Berlin Wall...
...Prenzlauer Berg has gone from being one of the cheapest neighborhoods in Berlin to one of the most expensive, with rents increasing tenfold. At the weekly Saturday farmers market on Kollwitzplatz Square, a stand offers currywurst (sausage with curry sauce), a local specialty, with 22-karat gold leaf and a side of french fries with truffle mayonnaise. The cafés surrounding the square are crowded with attractive young people sipping macchiatos. And pretty girls in lavender outfits hand out organic apples alongside brochures promoting an "urban village" called Marthashof currently in construction nearby. "Quality of life without compromises," promises...
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...