The artist and curator turned down the Käthe Kollwitz Prize from the Academy of the Arts, citing the German state’s crackdown on advocacy for Palestinian rights.
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Berlin Senate to Slash Arts and Culture Budget
A controversial proposed cut of over €130 million to the cultural budget in the new year has left arts organizations scrambling.
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“Why Can’t I Speak, Germany?” Says Nan Goldin in Searing Speech
At the opening of her Neue Nationalgalerie retrospective, the artist expressed solidarity with Palestine and lambasted the German government’s support for Israel.
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Joshua Serafin’s Living Shrine to Gender Nonconformity
The Filipino-born artist takes a journey through primordial mud, chimeric worlds, and suppressed psychic demons to honor trans people as channels of divinity.
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The Destabilizing Project of Jimmy DeSana and Paul P.
Ruins of Rooms explores not just the relationship between their work but the conceptual echoes between their generations.
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Famous “Nefertiti Bust” Belongs in Egypt, Not Germany, Says Petition
An online letter asking for the repatriation of one of Ancient Egypt’s best-known sculptures has drawn nearly 10,000 signatures.
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Pia Arke’s Archives of Arctic Colonization
Arke’s art calls forth memories of Greenlandic Inuit life and reinscribes them with the reality of the body against its representation by White colonizers.
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Is Anything Subversive About Warhol’s Idealized Male?
Velvet Rage and Beauty seems to position itself as part of a larger project of inflecting our understanding of Warhol with his own sexuality.
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What’s Going On With Berlin’s Pergamonmuseum?
A report by Der Spiegel identified a pattern of “planning chaos” delaying the institution’s costly renovation project.
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The Geometry in Motion of Nancy Holt
A survey at Gropius Bau frames Holt as an artist committed to the human body’s actions and dimensions, and its perceptual and cognitive boundaries.
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The Palestine Congress That Never Was
Inside Berlin’s censorship of a Palestine solidarity conference that police shut down as soon as it began.
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Three German Climate Activists Hit With Prison Sentence
The activists doused Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate in orange paint as part of a demonstration against the use of fossil fuels in September.