On November 13th, 2010, THE BERLIN TIERGARTEN MEMORIAL TO HOMOSEXUALS PERSECUTED…

  art, travel

close-up view of the video through the portal, and the monument from a distance

…under Nazism by Berlin based artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset (whose place I happen to be staying at this week) provides a poetically uncomfortable public moment as people are drawn to peer into the eye-level portal in the mysterious concrete monolith on the side of the walking path, which turns out to provide a view of a continuously looping video of two men kissing in the park. (more on Wikipedia)