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 ...
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 ...
Not because it's a Soviet war memorial in Berlin or in Germany - there are quite a few of those. It's instead because that particular memorial is the only one that was built in what became the Western ...