Berlin government approves €130m culture cuts
The Berlin city-state government pressed ahead with cuts to its culture budget last week (19 December), despite outcry and protests ...
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Nan Goldin pleads for Gaza at Berlin opening disrupted by protesters’ chants
Supported by a crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters, the American photographer Nan Goldin condemned Israel’s war in Gaza as genocide and ...
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Poland says Kandinsky painting sold at Berlin auction house was stolen from the National Museum in Warsaw
A Wassily Kandinsky watercolour painting that was sold yesterday evening at Grisebach auction house in Berlin is the subject of ...
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In response to energy crisis, Berlin museum turns off its Dan Flavin neon for first time in 26 years
A site-specific commission by Dan Flavin at the contemporary art museum Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin has been switched off for ...
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Iraqi artists remove their works from Berlin Biennale over Abu Ghraib photography row
The Iraqi artists who objected to their works being shown at the 12th Berlin Biennale now say they plan to ...
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Iraqi artists decry Berlin Biennale’s display of photographs showing tortured inmates at Abu Ghraib prison
More than 340 people, including artists Ali Cherri and Michael Rakowitz, have signed an open letter supporting Iraqi artists who ...
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