Design
BMW Guggenheim Cancels Its Berlin Exhibition Amid Threats of Violence
Left-wing activists threatened to "derail" the project, arguing it would speed gentrification.
The BMW Guggenheim Lab’s residence on the border between New York’s East Village and Lower East Side didn't go by without disruptions. But for the most part, the neighborhood around the site gave the temporary urbanist project - whose mission is to "inspire innovative ideas for urban life" - a friendly reception.
Not so in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district, the next venue for the Lab. According to Bloomberg News, organizers have cancelled what was to be the second of nine stops on a global tour: