In the last two or three years, I often hear that now the world capital of art instead of New York was Berlin. Of course, for the most part, this is PR, but still ... In a decentralized world, where the former periphery rapidly, in general, one can hardly speak of any capital city. Indeed, today many artists of international scale living and working in Berlin and exhibited in local galleries and implement their projects against the background of the local institutional landscape
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