German museum director at centre of row over cancelled Candice Breitz exhibition steps down
Andrea Jahn will leave her post four months after Breitz's show was cancelled over her views on the conflict in Gaza
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Andrea Jahn will leave her post four months after Breitz's show was cancelled over her views on the conflict in Gaza
The institutional ascent of art galleries, particularly during the late 19th-century transition from palace and state monopolies to bourgeois preferences,...
In a recent Democracy Now! segment, Palestinian artists Jacir and Samia Halaby decry the widespread stifling of pro-Palestine expression.
The International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art said it is witnessing “unprecedented international censorship of artists and curators.”
Following the January 4 implementation by Berlin culture senator Joe Chialo of a clause requiring artists applying for public funding to renounce “any form of anti-Semitism,” more than four thousand German cultural workers have signed an open letter calling for an international strike on the grounds that the clause chills free speech and punishes those who speak out on behalf of Palestinians.