The Berlin Wall Foundation, which already runs other memorials and museums in the city, has now taken control of the East Side Gallery. It plans to preserve the artwork and run guided tours, while ...

Citny describes the experience of painting the wall as a game of cat and mouse, but he says he was never in any real danger. All these years later, his wall art has traveled all over the world, in ...

Everyone's got an opinion on the Berlin Wall 20th anniversary, but we asked contemporary artists to describe, in their own words for our gallery, why their work offers more perspective than ever ...

Kani Alavi, a young Iranian artist living in Germany, raced to witness history as the wall falling in East Berlin. His vision, the Eastside Gallery, is today the longest section still standing.

The Berlin Wall Foundation has officially taken over the East Side Gallery, which will give it protection from property investors. In 1990, over 100 artists and street artists decorated the ...

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 ...

Today, a .8-mile-section of the wall that remains is the largest open-air art gallery in the world, according to Berlin's tourism website. The backside of the East Side Gallery. Joey Hadden/Insider ...

Historians are concerned as more of the wall disappears over time. BERLIN -- In the Berlin neighborhood of Pankow, a 196-foot stretch of the Berlin wall has been torn down to make way for ...

Through his distinctive, spontaneously painted characters, Noir became a forefather to the modern street art movement; most notably as one of the first artists to use the Berlin Wall as a canvas for ...