News
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.
Berlin
Art
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.
Art
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.
News
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.
Art
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.
Opinion
The Palestine Congress That Never Was
Inside Berlin’s censorship of a Palestine solidarity conference that police shut down as soon as it began.
News
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.
Art
History Is a Warning in Neue Nationalgalerie’s Collection-Based Exhibition
Seen today, histories of radical feminist positionality and liberational struggle reverberate with stinging intensity.
Opinion
Something Is Rotten in Germany's Arts Sector
Thanks to selective governmental investment in the arts, a sad joke has emerged — state-funded "radicals."
Art
Memories of East Germany’s Bygone Era of International Solidarity
Echoes of the Brother Countries explores the ongoing traces of Germany’s ties to socialist countries via artwork and film screenings.
News
German Film Festival Hacked With Pro-Palestine Posts
Berlinale organizers quickly deleted the posts and disavowed the statement as filmmakers called for a Gaza ceasefire during a closing ceremony.
Film
When a Woman Searches for a Man and Finds Herself Instead
The women-led Retrospective section of the Berlinale gives second-wave feminism a fresh look.