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Christine MacLean

Farewell to the mother of the East Side Gallery: Christine MacLean

I first met Christine MacLean in 1990, when I was invited as an artist to join in painting segments of a 1.3 Km stretch of the Berlin Wall. It was named The East Side Gallery and it was geographically in…

The East-Side Gallery, CNN and Fairytales

Similar to the narrative of the “victor”, where it is claimed that the reunification of Germany was due to the USA and not to Gorbachev, CNN is trying to equate the creation of the East Side Gallery in Berlin to…