Word: graffitiing
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...Nowhere is Germany's obstinate gulf - a division that Germans call "a wall in the head" - more evident than in Berlin. The physical Wall has been all but expunged. In 1989, Mauerspechte - wall peckers - chipped out and sold pieces of the concrete from the Wall's graffiti-strewn western face; later, municipalities sent diggers to do the job more thoroughly. Like a clumsily retouched image, the Wall was airbrushed out of the picture. But its shadow remains, and with it other fractures in German society: generational fissures, cracks between communities that benefited from the fall of the Wall and those...
...everywhere, the earnest expression of modern Germany's desire to acknowledge its difficult history. Yet for every memorial, there's also a theme-park rendition of the past. At Potsdamer Platz you can have your picture taken with smiling "border guards" next to remounted Wall panels, decorated with faux graffiti on their eastern faces. "It's disgusting," says Knabe. "And it makes harmless something far from harmless." (Read: "The Battle For Berlin...
...said Michelle E. Crentsil ’10. Recent events have also placed issues of race in the forefront of many student’s minds. In March, the Chinese community was stunned to find racial slurs painted on the walls of the Lowell House Grille after a graffiti party sponsored by the Chinese Students Association. And this summer, African American Studies Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s arrest and the subsequent allegations of a racial motive catapulted race relations at Harvard to the front page of national newspapers for weeks. Educational and Political Chair...
...Graffiti has since spread far beyond New York's boroughs, and its cross-fertilization with other art forms and traditions around the world is highlighted through original works by seminal street artists like Dutchman Boris Tellegen, who draws on his design background to create three-dimensional, industrial landscapes, and Brazilian Vitché, whose elaborate mural paintings evoke Indian and Aztec culture...
Hervé Chandès, the Fondation Cartier's director, calls graffiti "a dance with the walls, with the night, with the police." As this exhibition proves, the dance is still evolving. See fondation.cartier.com for details...