The BMW Guggenheim Lab packed up and left last October after its two-month-plus run here on East First Street. The Lab was then off to confront comfort in Berlin in the
However. In his *Everday Chatter column today, Jeremiah Moss points us to this item at The Atlantic: "BMW Guggenheim Cancels Its Berlin Exhibition Amid Threats of Violence."
The Atlantic post cites Bloomberg News:
"This decision was made as a consequence of threats to the project," the BMW Guggenheim Lab said in a statement. Police and local authorities said there was an elevated risk, it said.
Left-wing activists used the Internet to urge protesters to “derail” the project, according to the daily Tagesspiegel newspaper. Their protest was that the project would accelerate the gentrification of Kreuzberg, leading to higher rents and new luxury residential developments, the newspaper said.
One public meeting ahead of the Berlin debut reportedly drew "vociferous opposition." And depending how good your German is...
Updated:
Here's the site where the Lab was going to set up... via Spiegel Online...
12 comments:
Cool, although Prenzlauer Berg and Kreuzberg are two completely different neighborhoods. Tsk Tsk Bloomberg!
Ugh... that was my fault, Billy... I pulled the wrong neighborhood from an older report...
So, what's the update on the 'public' park space we were promised? Since it's closure, I've never seen that space unlocked.
Authority bows down to terror again!
Good on Berlin!
This protest seems truly misguided. It's an art project, not a shopping mall development.
The government shows itself as ineffectual at dealing with mere "threats" of violence. Sets a very bad precedent.
- East Villager
Three cheers for the good citizens of Berlin for seeing this for what it is - a marketing opportunity for a museum and a car company and not anything to do with art and ideas. And these folks have some balls not like here where people like Lynn Pentecost sell cookies to the lab and Clayton Patterson participates in their panels. This whole thing was a joke, still no park, still no replacement of the tree, just public land once again used by corporations. I heard the rats are back too!!
I stayed in Kreuzberg for a week several years ago. It was wonderful. Thank goodness the lab didn't set up there. Would have ruined the vibe of the still-edgy place.
hahahaha
hey yeah where's our f*cking park???
lying bast@rds!!!
Imagine that??..I wonder why????????
I think Bloomie wants all the attention.
annon 10:33PM..you hve opened my eyes..I did not know that.
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