On May 21 the Detroit-Berlin Connection hosted The Potential music conference in cooperation with Your Mom’s Agency, Wunderbar Together, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and the Goethe Institute Chicago. The exchange is the brainchild of Dimitri Hegemann, founder of one of Berlin’s original Techno clubs and a lifelong ambassador for the Detroit-Berlin Connection. Speakers from Detroit, Amsterdam, and Germany, convened to discuss the role of a nighttime economy in Detroit and the relationship between art and a city.

German Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas met with artist Luigi Toscano in Washington and bid him farewell. Toscano was preparing to travel with his exhibition across the country on a 10-day road trip from Washington, D.C. to San Francisco, California.

Sky Deep chats about musical connections between Germany and the U.S.