View taken on June 15, 2022 shows a part of the Fridericianum Museum, one of the venues of the documenta fifteen contemporary art exhibition, with painted columns with drawings by Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi, in Kassel, central Germany. Photo by Anton Roland LAUB / AFP via Getty Images.
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Documenta Has Taken Down Controversial Artwork – The mural by Indonesian collective Taring Padi, which was covered up on Tuesday in light of its antisemitic imagery, has now been dismantled and removed from view. But the controversy didn’t end there. The Central Council of Jews in Germany has called on Minister of State for Culture, Claudia Roth, to resign, while the new president of the German-Israeli Society, Volker Beck, called for the resignation of Documenta general director Sabine Schormann. (Deutsche Welle)
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Cheers,
Errol
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