construction scaffolding below the rails
the trains roll through while the station rises around them
They're building a great railway station in Berlin today, while in the U.S. they're working to dismantle what little remains of what was once a great passenger rail system
Bruce Nauman Mapping the Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage) 2001 installation with multiple projections [still from one screen of installation]
David Claerbout Shadow Piece 2005 video projection [view of installation as still]
Richard Long Berlin Circle 1996 [detail of installation in the Hamburger Bahnhof]
Absalon Cellule No. 2 1992
Never heard of Absalon before walking into the Hamburger Bahnhof, but I fell in love with this piece immediately. I even tried to imagine making it work as an actual retreat.
Barry and anonymous entertaining Carl Andre and Sol LeWitt in the Hamburger Bahnhof this afternoon
seen on the edge of the pavement across from our Wohnung this morning
We're staying on Rosa Luxemburg-Platz, only steps from the national headquarters of the PDS, or rather of its successor, Die Linke. I've worn my very red button every time I've gone out, and it seems it escapes the attention of almost no one here. [in the U.S. I sometimes think it's invisible]
Anyway, a few days ago an open-faced youth stopped us a hundred meters from our door to ask if we knew where the PDS office was. I was silly-proud to point him in the right direction, and it was near their building that I spotted this poster this morning.
This is a very political people and they will not be deceived this time. It's my own country that I'm very worried about.
FOLLOWUP: It happened. Everybody marched. No one was hurt. There were eggs thrown (by the anti-antis). The counter-demonstrators outnumbered the neo-nazis three to one. The police outnumbered both. There were ten arrests however, none of them of partisans from the extremist right.
pushing up green
"DER BEVÖLKERUNG", Hans Haacke's conceptual and somewhat controversial contribution to the Reichstag, installed in the interior court to the north, is very visible from the roof of this amazing building, at least to those with a bit of curiosity.
Outside, the dedication has remained unchanged since 1916, when it was added to the west front:
on a clear day you can see them all