baking bread series the eastern european origins of the humble bagel. christo and his partner jack claude have for decades created some of the most spectacular outdoor sculptures or wrappings of buildings around the world. they passed away ten years ago how to already been involved in christos most recent project on a lake in northern italy in twenty sixteen all their temporary and disappear after a few weeks so the documentary walking on water about the floating peers is all we have to remember installation christo was in berlin on tuesday evening for the premiere. eighty three years old and completely undaunted the artist christo travelled across the globe to the german premiere of the documentary walking on water. the film shows how he made it possible for more than one million people

to do just that his installation the floating piers on lake is zero in northern italy was the most visited art event of two thousand and sixteen. just as they would. walk. no rails but plenty of obstacles. as the bumpy ride of getting the project ready in time with christos temper constantly in full flare tantrums it seems are essential to the artist's process. or the india. the dogs all the dogs and already that's the way he functions he likes this neurotic and the gene because he keeps him going like

for example he doesn't like to eat during the day because when you're a little bit hungry you're more edgy and they're not all pink well thank you for clarifying that is the moment when things need to be kept in there either way i was gently used to part of the making you know it's not because i'm impatient because i can turn my finger waiting for something to write you know. floating piers was christos first major solo project since his romantic and artistic partner john clode died in two thousand and nine together they wrapped the australian coast back in one nine hundred sixty nine over the next decades they erected a curtain over this colorado valley and gave germany's parliament building blystone a new look and it was together the couple developed the concept for floating peers back in the one nine hundred seventy s. a gigantic undertaking for an installation lasting just sixteen days. no eternity.

and this project who save whatever the. present cannot be removed in the mind of the people and the people if whatever. christers next work a tower out of four hundred and ten thousand barrels this time it's meant to be a permanent structure in the middle of the desert. and i will never forget wrapping of the rhine stock it was an incredible party here in berlin thank you krista now i always thought bagels were american but as our europe correspondent. is about to tell us bagels originate from poland he'll also enlighten us on the state of polish politics and if that wasn't enough he's going to show us how to make a classic bagel in all series baking bread. there is nothing like whole made bread especially if you're not at home let's say. in new york.

immigrant polish jews from krakow introduced a taste of home that defines new york's identity the bagel. shop far shanika. the krikorian bagel dates back to before the fourteenth century. you make them out of plain flour water mulch powder sold and. dissolve the mold powder in water and now you can also do what polish people are really good at planning in working hard. and polish people have been doing that across the e.u. membership of the european union has brought not just billions in e.u. funds to poland but also jobs even it's up for the country's former prime minister

funk toast heading up the european council means having a lot on your plate to make racial crisis. the still resolved a land mass of the eurozone. plus the tension is english the ukraine. breakfast. this is our daily bread. bret that can be stale dry land. and to scrolls what he was talking about i worked as the bread or divide the dough into three equal pieces like the separation of powers judiciary legislative executive in poland the executive part that's the government has been trying to control the justice part that's the courts. here's the problem if one party becomes too

big and influential by undercutting the rule of law that's a recipe for an illiberal democracy and it baking bad bagels the e.u. doesn't like the taste of that we feel a strong strong feeling of solidarity with the polish people who deserve like all europeans to have an independent judiciary to have full separation of powers in their country so don't just eyeball this make sure all three parts are equal so always you scales. for nine long rolls and wrap them around your fingers just imagine your you're also asked to speak to de facto leader of poland and this is the justice system. the e.u. leaders hope they can still cool the route overnight in the fridge otherwise the e.u. will get into hot water with warsaw let your bagels float for thirty seconds on each

side. and then sprinkle them with the sesame seeds or poppy seeds. to. bake it's two hundred forty celsius for about fifteen minutes if you were planning on selling these off our shiny crack of skin no think again there are rules in the news for everything just like with champagne or palm i have. new legislation dictate that these bagels can only be produced in one place. krakow. there are literally. and all the rest a baking bread are on our website d.w.

dot com slash culture now you don't often hear the phrase i'm going clubbing tonight with my heart's accord however musician does just that she's determined to bring the precursor of the piano kicking and screaming into the twenty first century performing music from a rock to hip hop. does playing an instrument that's been obsolete for the last two hundred years automatically make you old fashioned you know all about dozen things out. she claims the hopes of a stringed keyboard instrument that was widely used in iraq music then in the late eighteenth century the piano took center stage and relegated the harpsichord to the history books today it's generally only used to play only music.

at the miller club in munich the ensemble continuum is warming up founded the group in twenty fifteen they perform an eclectic mix of the rock classical and hip hop all on historical instruments. were. nearly a foreigner was smart enough. not enough. brain fade life is still something still change nice to love again to have them as a class we look for ten years that make him different and present it in another way then this is the i thought which always sounds very similar maybe to similar for light up tight as it seems as though when you take a piece of paper and lay it across the harpsichord you get a sound that's very dry and mutates because it's damp and. then it sounds like you

make a tempest tempest like this. and then of bach cantata fellow musicians are all virtue of sounds on their historical instruments but they want to break out. at the small music scene without betraying it. at the comp the continuum on sambal experiments with spoken word sounds and music dating from the seventeenth century to the present. to. using a milk from far on the catona children's toys as percussion instruments and a piece of paper to play a glissando on the harpsichord strings. the

music must fulfill just one criterion it must move the listeners. in spite of the wonderful sounds it makes anyone compose his music for harpsichord these days lena alba things start to shine and she aims to change that she believes historical instruments deserve to have a future. before we go a fantastic new museum is opened in the gulf state of qatar shaped like a desert rose crystal it was designed by the renowned french architect joan move the same and who designed the louvre in abu dhabi and no expense spared for

instance the entrance includes over one hundred fountains sculptures along a nine hundred metre. we'll have more in the next edition of arts and culture but for now thanks for watching and goodbye from.

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