To make sure England's long rivalry with Germany stays on the soccer pitch during this summer's World Cup, the British government is offering fans extra consular help and advice how not to offend their hosts.
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Claes Borgström, Sweden's Equal Opportunities Ombudsman, has urged Swedish soccer players to boycott this summer's World Cup, arguing that the sports event will lead to a dramatic rise in prostitution in Berlin.
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Berlin has spent millions supporting development in the Palestinian Authority. But in the wake of the election victory of terrorist organization Hamas, that aid -- like all European Union funds -- has been frozen....
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German officials have admitted for the first time that members of the far right may try to cause trouble when the World Cup soccer final takes place here in June. But Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble says...
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Nice article from the folks at Spacing.org about Abstract Tours.
"Abstract Tours - Berlin 1997
It would be better to disclose the confinement
rather than make illusions of freedom"
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Biennials have become so commonplace in cultural capitals around the world that curators are beginning to look at them less as surveys of what's hot and more as a platform to express the spirit of the times. Breaking the mold of having a super-curator organize the event, the...
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The 19th transmediale festival again explores
how art and society are changing under the influence of media and
technologies which become more and more dominant in our everyday lives.
In contemporary art, digital media like video and electronic networks
are now so...
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AFP - Greenpeace activists called a protest in which they dumped a dead whale in front of the Japanese embassy in Berlin a big success as they removed it to a museum.
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December 19, 2005 Neon Lights by Joni Taylor for Net Art NewsWhile Berlin may be the capital of Germany, it has surprisingly few outdoor billboards and public screens, compared to other megatropolises. Except for the (unfortunately) temporary 'Blinkenlights' project and the...
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SPOTS, which is on show at Potsdamer Platz 10, is currently one of the world’s
largest media facades. For a period of eighteen months, the eleven-storey glazed
main facade of this office building will...
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The happening place these days is the district called Mitte in the "new" old heart of the German capital. This is where the young creative scene meets, artists like to have their studios and galleries have set up shop. This is where you can find the artists'...
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The good news is that despite Germany's economic woes, the contemporary art market is booming. And the bad? Most of it is on a fast-track out of the country.
Considering the sorry state of the economy, the...
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