It’s probably the brightest wall in Berlin, but it marks a dark past. An art-covered stretch of the Berlin Wall has just gained protected status after real estate developers threatened to close in on ...

The art of this storied city, political or otherwise, tends toward the gritty, the weird and the reliably cutting-edge. Berlin’s East Side Gallery is a long stretch of wall segments muraled shortly ...

In 1991, Art in America’s contributing editor for Germany, David Galloway, flagged down a cab in East Berlin and asked his driver to take him to the equivalent of Bloomingdale’s in West Berlin. His ...

Street art takes many forms, and the vibrant murals on the Berlin Wall both before and after its fall are expressions of people’s opinions. But there was often secrecy around the processes for ...

When artist Doerte Weber first contemplated an art installation drawing comparisons between the U.S.-Mexico border barrier and the Berlin Wall, she felt like a voice in the wilderness. Despite ...

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...