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Transcripts of closed-door testimony from a series of witnesses in front of the House Intelligence Committee seem to affirm the idea that a quid pro quo was in place between the US and Ukraine. He was ordered by a judge in New York to pay $2 million as restitution for using his Trump Foundation charity as a slush fund for his political interests. Elections in Kentucky and Virginia suggested Democratic momentum in 2018 hasn't worn off. He lost an appeal to keep his taxes from being released. And on and on it goes. And so it was a very frustrated President who greeted reporters Friday morning before jetting off to Atlanta. I went through the transcript of Trump's remarks -- they stretched for almost a half hour -- and took note of some of his more outlandish lines.
Kani Alavi, a young Iranian artist living in Germany, witnessed history as the Berlin Wall was falling, and crowds rushed to set foot on free soil. From his fourth-floor apartment next to Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie, his eyes took in images that would print onto his consciousness for a lifetime. That day, East German officials had surprised the world by announcing they would no longer enforce the border between East and West Germany. Everything had changed. The Berlin Wall was 91 miles long and for nearly three decades, it was a metaphor for the division between the free world and communism. But as people began pouring through a gap in the wall, Alavi began setting a plan in motion to actually preserve part of it. His became an organizer of the East Side Gallery, which today is the longest section still standing, and tourists flock to the gallery wall. It's become one of the most visited attractions in Germany's reunited capital. Alavi helped transform the most visible symbol of the Iron Curtain into an enduring monument to the power of freedom.
Alavi had moved to Berlin in 1980 to escape what he called an "inhuman dictatorship" in Iran. Nearly a decade later, he was moved by thousands of East Germans he saw trying to escape their own situation, and wanted to use art to help tell their story. "It was really difficult," Alavi told CNN in an interview with the help of a translator at his Berlin apartment, which is also his art studio. "But there were so many artists around the world who just wanted to get involved with the project." "They came to Berlin and it just spontaneously developed." Perhaps the most famous image on the wall recreates a socialist fraternal kiss shared between East German leader Erich Honecker and Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev in 1979. That kiss symbolized an ideological bond between East Germany and the Soviet Union that had suppressed the dreams and aspirations of millions living under those regimes. Words scrawled in Russian above the painting say, "My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love." There are countless stories of the 118 artists from 21 countries who would splash paint across the once-austere concrete. One story that sticks out in Alavi's mind is of an artist who arrived from East Germany driving a Trabant, a car produced in the Communist part of the country by a government-run conglomerate. Alavi told the woman, Birgit Kinder, to paint whatever she pleased. She was hesitant, not used to having the freedom to choose. She said she couldn't think of anything. But Alavi says she looked back at her prized car, and looked back at the wall. She got to work. She painted an icon: her Trabant barreling through the wall, and smashing through communism itself. Alavi's own contribution to the East Side Gallery is from his memory of November 9, 1989, as he saw masses coming through the wall at the Checkpoint Charlie border crossing. His painting, "It Happened in November," depicts a swarm of faces yearning to breathe free as they poured through a gap in the barrier. It would become his own most enduring piece of art. Today if you come back with him to his studio you can see evidence he's constantly re-creating that image, riffing off his personal depiction of the moment that changed the world.
or Chinese photographer Luo Yang, girlhood has a multitude of meanings. But rather than relying on the type of saccharine depictions often used in China to depict young women -- gentle, delicate, and overly feminine -- Luo's ongoing project "Girls" features edgy and alternative subjects who defy stereotype and expectation. Photographers capture the rise of South Korea's 'loner' culture Set against a background of rented apartments, hazy night markets and high-rise balconies, the series invites viewers to think about each woman's story. Sparsely decorated homes hint at struggle, though the subjects' expressions suggest a certain resilience. Some of the young women are photographed with their partners, while others are seen sitting topless on rooftops or smoking at windows.
Transcripts of closed-door testimony from a series of witnesses in front of the House Intelligence Committee seem to affirm the idea that a quid pro quo was in place between the US and Ukraine. He was ordered by a judge in New York to pay $2 million as restitution for using his Trump Foundation charity as a slush fund for his political interests. Elections in Kentucky and Virginia suggested Democratic momentum in 2018 hasn't worn off. He lost an appeal to keep his taxes from being released. And on and on it goes.
ReplyDeleteAnd so it was a very frustrated President who greeted reporters Friday morning before jetting off to Atlanta. I went through the transcript of Trump's remarks -- they stretched for almost a half hour -- and took note of some of his more outlandish lines.
Kani Alavi, a young Iranian artist living in Germany, witnessed history as the Berlin Wall was falling, and crowds rushed to set foot on free soil.
ReplyDeleteFrom his fourth-floor apartment next to Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie, his eyes took in images that would print onto his consciousness for a lifetime.
That day, East German officials had surprised the world by announcing they would no longer enforce the border between East and West Germany.
Everything had changed.
The Berlin Wall was 91 miles long and for nearly three decades, it was a metaphor for the division between the free world and communism.
But as people began pouring through a gap in the wall, Alavi began setting a plan in motion to actually preserve part of it.
His became an organizer of the East Side Gallery, which today is the longest section still standing, and tourists flock to the gallery wall. It's become one of the most visited attractions in Germany's reunited capital.
Alavi helped transform the most visible symbol of the Iron Curtain into an enduring monument to the power of freedom.
Alavi had moved to Berlin in 1980 to escape what he called an "inhuman dictatorship" in Iran.
ReplyDeleteNearly a decade later, he was moved by thousands of East Germans he saw trying to escape their own situation, and wanted to use art to help tell their story.
"It was really difficult," Alavi told CNN in an interview with the help of a translator at his Berlin apartment, which is also his art studio. "But there were so many artists around the world who just wanted to get involved with the project."
"They came to Berlin and it just spontaneously developed."
Perhaps the most famous image on the wall recreates a socialist fraternal kiss shared between East German leader Erich Honecker and Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev in 1979.
That kiss symbolized an ideological bond between East Germany and the Soviet Union that had suppressed the dreams and aspirations of millions living under those regimes.
Words scrawled in Russian above the painting say, "My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love."
There are countless stories of the 118 artists from 21 countries who would splash paint across the once-austere concrete.
One story that sticks out in Alavi's mind is of an artist who arrived from East Germany driving a Trabant, a car produced in the Communist part of the country by a government-run conglomerate.
Alavi told the woman, Birgit Kinder, to paint whatever she pleased. She was hesitant, not used to having the freedom to choose. She said she couldn't think of anything.
But Alavi says she looked back at her prized car, and looked back at the wall. She got to work.
She painted an icon: her Trabant barreling through the wall, and smashing through communism itself.
Alavi's own contribution to the East Side Gallery is from his memory of November 9, 1989, as he saw masses coming through the wall at the Checkpoint Charlie border crossing.
His painting, "It Happened in November," depicts a swarm of faces yearning to breathe free as they poured through a gap in the barrier.
It would become his own most enduring piece of art.
Today if you come back with him to his studio you can see evidence he's constantly re-creating that image, riffing off his personal depiction of the moment that changed the world.
or Chinese photographer Luo Yang, girlhood has a multitude of meanings. But rather than relying on the type of saccharine depictions often used in China to depict young women -- gentle, delicate, and overly feminine -- Luo's ongoing project "Girls" features edgy and alternative subjects who defy stereotype and expectation.
ReplyDeletePhotographers capture the rise of South Korea's 'loner' culture
Set against a background of rented apartments, hazy night markets and high-rise balconies, the series invites viewers to think about each woman's story. Sparsely decorated homes hint at struggle, though the subjects' expressions suggest a certain resilience. Some of the young women are photographed with their partners, while others are seen sitting topless on rooftops or smoking at windows.