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 ...

`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 Berlin, at least today’s post-Wall Berlin.

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 ...

Berlin’s East Side Gallery is a 1.3 kilometer open-air gallery created when 118 artists from more than 20 countries painted along the former border wall. It’s believed to be the longest open ...

A stretch of the old Berlin Wall has stood for decades as an open-air gallery, covered in fine art and graffiti. Bids for luxury developments in the area have artists hitting the streets in protest.

`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 Berlin, at least today’s post-Wall ...

The Berlin Wall has been battered by age, the elements, souvenir-hunting tourists and commercial development. ... Alavi and other artists registered the stretch of wall as an art gallery.

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.