East Side Gallery
Longest surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall, covered in over a hundred political murals painted by artists worldwide.
This guide to the East Side Gallery in Berlin centers on the mural of Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker locked in a kiss, painted in 1990 by Russian artist Dmitri Vrubel from a photograph of their actual 1979 embrace. It follows the more than one hundred artists from twenty-one countries who painted this surviving stretch of wall that same year, and the fights to save it since, including a 2009 dispute over whether repainting a damaged mural was itself a violation, and a 2013 clash with developers over a section slated for demolition. Look for the caption written in Russian beneath the kiss itself.
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