finally getting their fair do's. and a part of the former border between east and west berlin now covered in you've got it coronavirus graffiti. but 1st off for months now musicians have been live streaming from their living rooms to their bedrooms madonna even addressed fans from her bath tub but when and how will we get back to rio in person concerts right now in large parts of the world it's completely unthinkable but here in europe in some places people are already doing it here are some of the ways how. this is probably the easiest way to feel safe and keep your distance to get out into nature the audience seated on a lake amid pastures and cows the biggest threat to the musicians is of getting their feet. larger scale events have

also successfully taken place the summer opera is back on stage but outdoors like last week in naples with soprano on another trip cohen tosca york history members were seated far apart and there was no stage set. in for only 2 the approach was less opulent with fewer people in the audience. their ideas have audiences in their own cars like at this drive in concert in switzerland so there's a lot to recommend outdoor performances. so from the street from not produce street we are back. into history but outdoor concerts aren't an option for the winter months so organizers have to come up with other solutions. the audience sits in plexiglass

compartments. in a pilot performance at london's palladium theater they blocked off entire rows of seats and honey inspectors were required to wear masks but that isn't a long term solution it's just not economically possible so we've got to get to a pilot where we don't have social distancing which is why we put all these measures in at the palladium not to prove i must stress this not to prove that the palladium can work it's to prove that every brand you can work until a vaccine for covert 19 is found the search also continues for innovative ways to allow the live performances to take place safely. the search continues and my colleague melissa holroyd is here what to help guide us through now melissa we just saw a bit even andrew lloyd webber says that these methods these gimmicks aren't really sustainable they're not particularly profitable what do you think could we conceivably go back to barge scale performances in person before there's

a vaccine. while the sun shines we can do anything that's what i think as long as that summer and we can go outside we can do a whole lot of stuff that's if we're talking about indoor concepts. then i think they have to find a vaccine really fast because all of this stuff costs money it will cost money all this plexiglas the pixie glass it's between us now. it will cost money and you know a lot of performance and a lot of then you simply don't have that money at the moment we have the salzburg festival on and they have it mean that we're seeing some wonderful pictures from the opera electra from side yesterday i mean they have invested a great deal of money into their into the measures that they've taken but even then even the austrians with all that cash banks say that they cannot keep doing this they can't keep doing this year after year now where i'm wondering so it sounds like this is not this is not necessarily the way forward this is a kind of

a show of how one could do it but even for the musicians here for years musicians haven't been able to rely on album sales since streaming happened a lot of them rely on concert sales how are they surviving well the have to come up with new ideas don't they and they are doing that very quickly at the moment things are moving on when the current virus 1st happened we had a situation where people were performing more and more from their own homes so they got a little we got a nice looking to their bedrooms we got to see what they cats looked like we got to see their kids run in front of the camera and now people are sort of going to the opposite end of that and putting a lot of money into their concept so nick cave for example he put on a concert film called idiot train which was captured at london's alec alexandra palace last month the broadcast were treated like a live image in a vent and you couldn't watch them off to july the 22nd. ok melissa holroyd are going to have to revisit their that's that's what concerts are for and how thanks

for joining us. and now not all artists it must be said are white men it sounds pretty obvious but maybe it wouldn't be that obvious if you just went by the art that's in a lot of western art museums including this painting by jasper johns at the museum in cologne germany well that museum has been taking a critical look at its collection of american art from the 1960 s. and seventy's and of the stories that its collection doesn't tell. the honest abolition view of united states history and with it but history is under scrutiny the dominant narrative has been white male and heteronormativity. so colognes museum ludovick invited research fellow janice mitchell to critically review its american art collection she also arranged loans of other outlets to fill gaps for this exhibition. this 1980 video artwork

by howard dean a pin down is titled free white and 21. it shows a black artist transforming herself into a white woman who then rejects and attacks the black woman's experiences of racism . we really must be paranoid and never had an experience like that that was free when. the current anti racist demonstrations similar to the ones that took place in the 1960 s. and seventy's make mapping the collection more relevant than ever. as to me it's always relevant racism sexism all these things unfortunately they're always relevant topics and. that's one of the reasons why racism is the overriding topic of this exhibition and it's not an exhibition full of black and white cliches but one with some genuinely surprising insights for example this sculpture by african american artist barbara chase redux.

mitchell also addresses other forms of bigotry such as homophobia she illustrates this was work by the artist and gay rights activist david 4 in a row fiction who died of aids in this photo series from the late 1970 s. the artist photographed his friends wearing a mask of our 2 examples face posing in various locations in new york it hints at a subculture since decimated by aids and gentrification. the exhibition also features feminist art cuban american artist ana meant to place with gender roles i don't think her own face with her friends snapped off beard. and there's political pop art a colorful protest it was created by corridor can't catholic nun in the u.s. in the 1960 s. . mapping the collection also juxtaposes works dealing with the abusiveness of the white man. with those about women's

efforts at self-determination and it makes clear that art is best feud within the social and political context of its creation. the context today's artists are working in is of course a global pandemic and street artists in particular like the one who made this nero and rio are using art to medical light of a tough situation coronavirus graffiti has been popping up all over the world including here in berlin. all over the world in recent months street artists have given expression to their perspectives on the coronavirus pandemic some of the sorely needed dash of humor others with urgent messages to a weary public. prelim smell of hockey is one place where the city street artists come together here they create one corona inspired miral after

another legally bulky savage and any freaky. and perhaps themselves been infected with the spirit of the times and put their vision on the wall in spite of the lock down. a lot of stuff but there's always a point where you need to get out and do it on a wall any freethinker can be found in almost every one of his latest works steve sets of gollum from lord of the rings together with the script the sabretooth of squirrel from the icing of the scraps making off with a roll of toilet paper to dominican born artist had already used to using it has precious toilet paper in his 1st career the virus which went viral worldwide. cries of the people like a lot because. for bulky savage the day the lockdown was announced in germany one particular theme

kept going to his head a few hours later he'd completed his work my corona. this girl's life and ritual going to certain connection his latest work includes the words in it together especially important in these uncertain times. on not making any money to go out and buy if you can buy paint. you don't know what is going to suffer when it's going to end like. this like all the uncertainty and play with it but now both the savage and any free thinkers are getting together for their 1st collaborative nero inspired by the corona virus while keeping the required distance and wearing masks which they wore before the pandemic. the coronavirus crisis may separate people physically but it can bring them together in motion early hardly anyone here wants to stay home alone. treat artists like i am

a free thinker and croaky savage abuse for been spaces for their gallery their medium of communication they interpret themes of social relevance but also expressed personal experiences and that's what the public here in the park appreciates. it's natural to more than normal and even expectable that people go out again also in the summer. and try to express themselves in some words i think it's actually pretty brilliant old especially if you take it all with a little humor that will get through the crisis a bit better it's great. nobody can now deny that covert $1000.00 has and will continue to affect the world often in profoundly negative ways but what street artists are currently turning out is thought provoking and often positive ways and maybe even a bit encouraging. that's all for this arts and culture if you want war you can always find it at d w dot com slash culture now for me and all the crew here in berlin thanks for

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