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 wives streaming from their living rooms 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. 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 the orchestra members were seated far apart and there was no stage set. in her own and to 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 performance or. so from the street from not to st we are back. into history but outdoor concerts aren't an option for the winter months so organizers have to come up with another solution it's a concert the audience sits in plexiglas compartments. in

a pilot performance at london's palladium theater they blocked off entire rows of seats and honey and spammers 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 that is. the search continues and my colleague melissa holroyd is here with to help guide us through now melissa we just saw that 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 concerts. 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. here it will cost money and you know a lot of performance and a lot of venues 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 work yesterday i mean they have invested a great deal of money into that into the measures that they've taken but even then even the austrians with all that cash they say that they cannot keep doing this they can't keep doing this year after year now 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 there for years musicians haven't been able to rely on album sales since truly 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 concerts so nikkei for example he put on a concert film called idiot train which was captured at london's islet alexandra palace last month the broadcaster treated like a live image infant and you couldn't watch them off to july the 22nd. ok melissa holroyd are going to have to revisit their that starts 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 monistat blish 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 lou vega invited research fellow janis mitchell to critically review its american art collection she also arranged loans of other outlets to fill gaps for this exhibition. this 980 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 . you really must be paranoid and never had an experience like that that forces 31. that kind of 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 the sculpture by african-american artist barbara chase rethought.

mitchell also addresses other forms of bigotry such as homophobia she illustrates this with work by the artist and gave rights activist david for a narrow fiction who died of aids in this photo series from the late 1970 s. the artist photographed his friends wearing a mask of are 2 examples fakes 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 on a mental place with gender roles adorning her own face with the friends snapped off beard. and there's political pop art a colorful protest it was created by korea to 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 make light of a tough situation coronavirus graffiti has been popping up all over the world including here in berlin. over the world in recent months street artists have given expression to their perspectives on the coronavirus pandemic some with a sorely needed dash of humor others with the urgent messages to a weary public. smile of hark is one place where the city street artists come together here they create one corona inspired miral after

another legally bulky savage and any freight. 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 know you need to get out and throw it on a wall any free thinker can be found in almost any one of his latest works of gollum from lord of the rings script the sabretooth of squirrel from the ice age when the scrap is making off with a roll of toilet paper to define a can born artist had already used to using his precious toilet paper in his 1st corona virus which went viral worldwide. cries of the people like a lot because for me was something that i think as a. me myself. for bulky savage the day the lockdown was announced in germany one particular

scream kept going through his head few hours later he'd completed his work mike carona. and ritualized certain connection his latest work includes the words in it together especially important in nice uncertain times. on not making any money to go out and by trying to if you can by paying. you don't know what is going to suffer when it's going to end like so what is this like all the uncertainty and play with your head a bit now both these savage and any free thinkers are getting together for their 1st collaborative miro inspired by the corona virus while keeping the required distance and wearing masks which they wore before the pandemic to p.p.m. the coronavirus crisis may separate people physically but it can bring them together emotionally hardly anyone here wants to stay home alone. treat artists

like him a free thinker and frankie savage abused bourbon spaces for their gallery their medium of communication they interpret themes of social relevance but also express 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. try to express themselves since the world series can 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 top provoking in 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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