Berlin
BERLIN — It’s not so often that institutions get to change face, to truly look in the mirror and rethink their role or what it could be in the future. However, “Relaunch” KW Institute of Contemporary Art’s first exhibition under new chief curator,...
Founded in 2001 by artists Maik Schierloh and Joep van Liefland, Autocenter is something of a Berlin legend, a springboard for some of the city’s most recognizable contemporary art exports. Olafur Eliasson, Alicia Kwade, Jonathan Meese, Christoph...
BERLIN — James Franco is at it again. Rather, by the looks of his new exhibition at Peres Projects in Berlin — which opened alongside his screening of the latest “Oz” film and pet project “Interior.Leather Bar” at the 2013 Berlinale — he’s been at it nonstop...
If you’ll be hitting the international arts and culture circuit in 2013, there’s one name you need to know: Pret a Diner. Now in its third year, the innovative pop-up dining experience looks forward to its most international year yet in 2013 with stops in Rio...
It’s a safe bet that shooting a car commercial isn’t particularly high on the wish lists of most established contemporary artists. But from the boyish excitement photographer Ryan McGinley displays when talking about his most recent collaboration — a...
And they’re off. Berlin Fashion Week opened for the Fall/Winter 2013-14 season on Tuesday with an art-influenced collection by young Laotian, Berlin-based designer Hien Le. Moving away from the boldly contrasted color that has trademarked...
Das Stue Hotel offers guests a wild view of the city center
Natalie Portman is being sought to play the Virginia-born Nazi mistress and Soviet spy Martha Dodd in “In the Garden of Beasts,” which, reports Deadline, “The Artist”s director Michel Hazanavicius will likely make for Tom Hanks’s company Playtone and...
As always, it couldn’t have been more pleasant, even luxurious, to stroll down Auguststrasse, past the cafés and galleries, then into the sunlit courtyard of KW, with its own café scene for artgoers, here for the seventh edition of the Berlin Biennale, where...
Although it was brought to Germany to be part of an art project on the theme of global peace, a 35-ton sandstone boulder is now at the center of a growing international controversy. The Venezuelan government and the Pemon Indian tribe are claiming that the...
