it's a new chapter and i can't wait for it to begin and later on the show that world tour so many of us are longing for remembering those take offs and landings with a new photo collection. well after 4 years of growing divisions in the united states a newly sworn in president joe biden has promised to bring the country back together can he do it and what is a bite and presidency mean for the arts we talked to leading american artists just before the inauguration. conductor marin alsop is one of many american artists who say they are relieved that a new administration has moved into the white house she's currently music director of the o r f radio symphony in vienna and the baltimore symphony. hall because it's like a huge exhale this is the we've been holding our breath for 4 years not knowing what was about to happen at any moment. singer jocelyn b.

smith has lived in berlin for the past 30 years she sees the change in administration as a chance for america to heal. the cillian since stamina there is a strength and this is i would say from an artist point of view this is something that we pride ourselves on our resilience and that feels very optimistic for me. but most also have no illusions as to how big the job will be chloe pina a visual artist best known for her drawings says her country's wounds won't heal overnight. but i have. here is this. story.

or set we. are all. eve or destructive years or actually almost. dread. that is yet to. land. but expectations are high for what the biden administration can do for culture after 4 years of trump politics that many people saw as a worst case scenario for the arts. the noun choreographer jelly willow joe's all are is also a dancer teacher and founder of the dance company urban bush women there are a lot of people that are asking this administration to create a cabinet position for arts and culture we've seen the economic engine that we are and the lots of that through this pandemic and we we have to our voices are important and the edges voices we provide jobs we

provide training we provide. education we've never had an arts you know a cabinet position and something that really takes arts here seriously so this is biden's opportunity by administration to really take us seriously to really understand who we are and what we are and how big we are. artists will no doubt be more vocal in future about getting that message across. you know the arts it's not just for the soul it's good for the bottom line arts you know culture in the united states is 4.5 percent of our g.d.p. . and that's really huge and i don't think it is or is we promote it's not enough. there's a lot of work to be done but an equal amount of optimism for

a new beginning. and we're going to in a new chapter that really is bringing our allies together all over the world back into some kind of dialogue together so it's a new chapter and i can't wait for it to get to other artists are also celebrating the latest political events in the u.s. albeit for a very different reason rappers lil wayne and kodak black both received clemency from donald trump during the outgoing president's last hours in office well wayne had faced sentencing for illegal possession of a firearm trump gave him a full pardon and kodak black was already serving time for making a false statement to buy a weapon has printed a prison sentence has now been shortened. one of america's most acclaimed living authors jeffrey eugenic he says he's hoping to see

a return to stability genovese as the author of the virgin suicides and middlesex the novel that won him the pulitzer earlier he told me why joe biden is the man for the job you know he's not. the person who's going to excite everyone he's not an orator and he's not has his snazzy in cools a lot but he's he's someone very calm and calling and he knows what he's doing and i think if anyone can can try to help begin to heal the divisions in the country i think he's the person. now on something that we've been seeing in the last week certainly when we've seen rioting when we've seen racism in the united states we see politicians including joe biden get up and say this is not america what do you make of that is he right you got. it right away from. my think when he said when he says that he is talking about the ideals of america he's

talking about the majority of americans he's not he's not saying that there are you know these problems in society and haven't been in the country hasn't been bedeviled by racism in his history but he's talking about where we're headed and where we want want to go and you know also to a large part where we've been the progress we've made over the centuries so you know i'm i'm with them on that well what's the opposite to decide that the country is completely worthless and there's no there's no use continuing the american project i don't see that as a viable option what are your big hopes fears for this new era and the wrasse well that's a large question my my hopes obviously should be as the new president will be mainly pragmatic trying to steady the ship trying to take down the level of in many and distrust we have

a huge huge problem with with information and false information. the internet has brought many good things to to the world but a lot of a lot of bad and bad things as well the level of. misunderstanding and mistrust between between people and in the in the right on the left i've certainly never seen anything like it in in my life when i grew up there were 4 or 3 or 4 networks providing the news people trusted them and then there was a shared reality to discuss and. now that's that's no longer the case some stream we worried about that i don't know how you fix it i do think however that you know biden is not paying attention to that and he's he's going along in a in a in a pretty almost plodding but very reassuring way so there will be a kind of place to look to get some sense of reality. but i don't know what

what he does against. you know the level of just information on the internet for many many decades the world has looked to the united states as a great motor of creativity and artistry do you see the u.s. continuing to be that even with all of the times and some problems. i probably think america is well positioned to continue a leading role technologically. not quite sure about culturally at the moment the cultural situation in the country is a difficult one. and i'm not as optimistic. and i don't think we're in the healthy as moment of our of our life culturally why are you not hope for the united states can continue. in terms of literature. the big problem

is that nobody there's not a kind of standard body of work that people are reading new books come out there are so many different books. one person reads one book one person reads another one doesn't there's not a kind of. conversation that everyone's having so everything seems to happen in its own silo much much like it does in the political realm people are reading it you know certain kind of literature other people are reading it a different kind and you don't have a feeling of american literature. as a thing that you can no know what it is pulitzer prize winning american novelist jeffrey eugenides they're talking about his hopes and concerns for the new u.s. presidency and for american literature well here in germany coronavirus lockdown measures have been extended once again and for most of us that means no air travel in the foreseeable future so a new book of airport photos is awakening a sense of nostalgia. these images of dreams of voyages to

faraway places the world over london's heathrow and indonesia years island. from on high in photo book. over. to me. the world the journey begins and ends at the airport. as everything in between. that's why they're so fascinating to me. and various fact there is a former air traffic controller he's also worked on military bases around europe he didn't take any of the photos in the book himself he just collected them they ranged from international like munich's to. remote and exotic fields like kang. in greenland and strip height in the french alps planes can only land on the short runway.

the readers to get the feeling that they can travel the whole world without having a conscience so they can satisfy their desires and it's all climate neutral. face masks. the coronavirus pandemic the skies over ports like munich international have been very quiet the airline passenger figures have plummeted 2019 munich had about 48000000 passengers in 2020 it was just one quarter of all that's left of the dreams of far off place is. the most thrilling and exciting learning. in honduras there is a hill under a final approach and a few pilots have tripped over it the strip is very short so you have. to touch tone early. on the bricks. isn't quite ready

to give up a real world traveling as soon as it's possible he plans to touch down at palin's new. well that's it for this edition of arts and culture but you can get more culture news at any time at d w dot com slash culture now for me and all the crew here in berlin thanks for watching and stay 6.

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