Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... `Fans of street art might not automatically think of buttoned-down Germany as a place to find great locations, but that’s because they’ve never been to ...
In West Berlin’s fashionable Charlottenburg neighborhood, amid designer shops and trendy restaurants, more than 165 street, graffiti, and visual artists have seized a five-story abandoned bank ...
Over in the German capital, street art is a big industry. It’s not 100-percent legal yet, but the city’s title of UNESCO’s City of Design has kept the authentic flavor of graffiti and urban art alive.
The birth of Berlin’s street art scene can be traced back to 1961 when the Soviet Union erected the Berlin wall, separating East Germany from West Germany. Due to the symbolic significance of the wall ...
Teufelsberg played host to British and American spies during the Cold War. Now the Berlin site is open to the public as a "natural cultural space." Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features ...
Some cities give you a mural or two and call it a scene. Others turn entire districts into outdoor galleries, where painted shutters, warehouse walls, side streets, staircases, rail corridors, and ...
Our Here, Now column looks at trends taking hold in cities around the world. Given how different the world looks these days, we're focusing on the feel-good moments emerging in between. “There are ...