Last Friday, we celebrated our annual GUCCI x 032c Party with DJ sets by Clara 3000, Lawrence Lee, and Brat Star at “Bar Tausend,” a tunnel-shaped club tucked away under the railway tracks of the Berlin-Friedrichstraße train station.
Photography PAUL AIDAN PERRY
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Now Brathwaite is the host of the upcoming BBC art historical documentary A FRESH GUIDE TO FLORENCE WITH FAB 5 FREDDIE, covering Titian, Michaelangelo, and the black body in Italian Renaissance painting. “I don’t know if [Basquiat] ever went to Florence but he would have absolutely loved it,” says the star.
Artist Dorothea Nold gets “an average of five calls a day” from international investors interested in buying into the new Berlin property developments advertised on posters and billboards in the city’s Kreuzberg and Treptow areas. What these would-be financiers don’t know is that the placards – which feature company names such as Desperate Development and absurd architectural renderings – are part of an art project-cum-awareness campaign satirizing the engorged real estate market in the German capital. “I have nothing against development,” says Nold, “but how and for whom people are building in Berlin at the moment really upsets me.” 🏗🏗
READ MORE (in German) at our local daily, the B.Z. ➡️➡️
