{"id":28875,"date":"2011-08-07T18:09:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T01:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=28875"},"modified":"2011-08-07T18:37:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T01:37:14","slug":"life-was-a-cabaret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/28875","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Life was a cabaret&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OYKu5zegpfc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Berlin of the 1920s was considered by many to be the cultural center of Europe; home to innovative art, music and a bawdy nightlife &#8211; all squashed when the Nazis came to power in 1933.<\/p>\n<p>Above, Walther Ruttmann&#8217;s silent (add your own music) <em>Berlin: Symphony of a Great City<\/em> (1927), which <em>&#8216;portrays the life of a city mainly through visual effects and music, not narrative content. The impression it conveys of daily life in Berlin is dynamic, anxiety-ridden, cacophonous \u2013 and a helluva lot of fun!&#8217; -Jessica Glaser, MoMA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Below, visual highlights from MoMA\u2019s recent exhibition, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/explore\/collection\/ge\/\" target=\"_blank\">German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse.<\/a><\/em> Additional commentary <a href=\"http:\/\/moma.org\/explore\/inside_out\/2011\/07\/01\/five-for-friday-life-was-a-cabaret?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=facebook&#038;utm_campaign=blog1_07-01-11\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moma.org\/explore\/inside_out\/2011\/07\/01\/five-for-friday-life-was-a-cabaret?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=facebook&#038;utm_campaign=blog1_07-01-11\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/BerlinSymphony_01.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moma.org\/explore\/inside_out\/2011\/07\/01\/five-for-friday-life-was-a-cabaret?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=facebook&#038;utm_campaign=blog1_07-01-11\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/BerlinSymphony_02.jpg\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moma.org\/explore\/inside_out\/2011\/07\/01\/five-for-friday-life-was-a-cabaret?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=facebook&#038;utm_campaign=blog1_07-01-11\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/BerlinSymphony_03.jpg\"width=\"400\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moma.org\/explore\/inside_out\/2011\/07\/01\/five-for-friday-life-was-a-cabaret?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=facebook&#038;utm_campaign=blog1_07-01-11\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/BerlinSymphony_04.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moma.org\/explore\/inside_out\/2011\/07\/01\/five-for-friday-life-was-a-cabaret?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=facebook&#038;utm_campaign=blog1_07-01-11\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/BerlinSymphony_05.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"'Life was a cabaret'\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/28875\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin of the 1920s was considered by many to be the cultural center of Europe; home to innovative art, music and a bawdy nightlife &#8211; all squashed when the Nazis came to power in 1933. Above, Walther Ruttmann&#8217;s silent (add your own music) Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927), which &#8216;portrays the life of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,50,54,120],"tags":[25,26,121,122],"class_list":["post-28875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-design-history","category-typography","tag-avant-garde","tag-cinema","tag-design","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28875"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28901,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28875\/revisions\/28901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}