Berlin Wall

Heavy Hitters: Damn Yanquis and Cartoon Vampires

The Other Dream Team

Photographer Rineke Dijkstra Gets a Great Show at the Guggenheim

The kids stay in the picture

Live: Wordless Music Orchestra Recreates The Disintegration Loops At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art

Wordless Music Orchestra Metropolitan Museum of Art Sunday, September 11 Better than: An hour-long recreation of Look Sharp! In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell with Roxette's "Listen to Your Heart" playing in the background. That might not be entirely true, but surely the song—which from Novembe ... More >>

Bloc Party

Ostalgia comes to New Museum

BIG BEATS

Hit the ultimate beach party

Clubbed Thumb Opens the Lid on Our Lot

A premiere by Kristin Newbom and W. David Hancock at Summerworks

Will the New York Times Paywall Be a 'Wasteland' For Writers? It's Coming Soon!

​The New York Times had a big, important meeting today at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, in which the people in charge talked about how the business side is going. For most everyone that reads the paper, the discussion is boring beyond belief. ("The improvement in p ... More >>

Rabbit a la Berlin: European History, From the Bunnies' POV

'Roger Waters: The Wall Live'

Fall Guide: Ingrid Calame Finds Beauty in the Grime

James Cohan Gallery hosts the artist's Swing Shift

Jay-Z's Ten Most Shameful Rock and Roll Moments

​Yesterday, it was announced that Jay-Z would be joining U2 on the band's five-date tour of Australia come November. It makes sense: in addition to commingling at the top of the Forbes 2010 Music Earners List, Jay-Z and U2 have performed together before--more than once, in fact. (Never forget ... More >>

'Contraband Cinema' Brings Political Films to BAM

Celebrate the Fourth of July with Eldridge Cleaver and the always revolutionary Sly Stallone

The Lives of Others in DDR/DDR

Life in East Germany, caught on camera

Welcome to the Mixed-Up, Dialed-Down 2010 Whitney Biennial

Bye-bye bling! The new realists win out this year

Berlin Wall Fall 20th Anniversary with Alvin and the Chipmunks

While The Man tries to keep musicians down in the subway, let us pause to remember that this is the anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall was toppled by Alvin and the Chipmunks. (Look, we got this from Jake Tapper. It's too good to check.) U2 recreated the Chipmunks' brave feat last week behind a ... More >>

Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall, So That U2 and Jay-Z Can Play "Sunday Bloody Sunday" in Front of It

Ah, jeez--an awards show, the MTV EMAs, but also a celebration of freedom, see, because Reagan/Gorbachev/the power of music tore down the Berlin Wall twenty years ago so that Bono could branch out into rap, and New York Mayor (?!) Jay-Z could talk about fixed elections in Iran and genocide in Rwan ... More >>

DIGITAL GET DOWN

Celebrate like ein Berliner

FENCED IN

Is Israel's Security Fence the new Berlin Wall?

Another Reason to Be Mad at Alaska: Lou Reed's "Caroline Says, Pt. II"

Morning Report: Obama Drama; Reagan Era Unraveling

Judy Fox's Snow White, El Museo's Bienal, and Antony Gormley's 'Blind Light'

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Recommendations

Taryn Simon's Hymenoplasty, John Bradford, and Joseph Cornell

Top Shelf 2005

Our 25 favorite books of the year—from teen sex diseases and Aztec slaughterhouses to Kiss riffs and juvenile tambourinists

Generation Ex

Some get a decade; we get a moment

Horoscope

Wrapper’s Delight

Experiencing the ephemeral: Christo and Jeanne-Claude help us reimagine Central Park

Transient Landscape Artworks Live on in Cinematic Form

Felling the Wall

Remembering Jonathan Kramer, a true scholar of listening

Rumsfeld Watch

The Defense Secretary on the 'Old' Europe: Who Needs It?

Clark's Changing Tune on Iraq

General Wobbled and Weaved as His Candidacy Neared

All That You Can Be

Once Upon a Time in America

An Informed Citizenry

Telling Trend Takes Hold

Hero Worship

Berlin's Personae Non Gratae

Nation

Tried and True

Hardest-Movie-Quiz Answers Revealed

Screen Test 2002

World's Hardest Movie Quiz

Collapsing New Waves

All as It Had Been

Hollywood Revises History, Joins the Good Fight

Southern Discomfort

The New Terrorism

How the Cold War and Its Aftermath Fueled Islamic Militancy

Tearing Down the Wall

Two Views of Democracy Battle in Quebec City

Fables of Reconstruction

Oddballs With Problems

Dialectical U

The Post-Seattle Generation Gets Its Marx Druthers

Brrrrrrrr!

Veterans of Disorder

Going Deutsch

Tried and True

Hardest Movie Quiz Answers Revealed

Steal This Idea