Film
Maria Lassnig’s Triumphant “Little Films”
Lassnig’s short films perfectly present the artist’s uncanny talent for marrying morbidity and frolic, rigor and wantonness.
Berlin
News
Berlinale Film Festival Curators Join Call for Gaza Ceasefire
The Forum Expanded curators’ statement comes amid an ongoing campaign to boycott German institutions accused of stifling pro-Palestine voices.
News
Pro-Palestine Protesters Disrupt Tania Bruguera Performance in Berlin
The Hamburger Bahnhof museum characterized the actions as “violent hate speech,” though Brugera stressed that they were non-violent.
Art
Women Are the Post-Apocalyptic Future
Emma Talbot and Dana Schutz address societal, ecological meltdown, drawing attention to humanity’s absurdities while offering paths to eco-centric renewal.
Art
Coco Fusco’s Fight to Rebalance Power
Throughout her decades-long career, Fusco has laid bare the many mechanisms through which subjugated bodies are stripped of their agency.
Art
Sergio Zevallos’s Rituals of Disobedience
A member of the queer collective Grupo Chaclacayo, his transformational performances were a cry for gender equality and political freedom in Peru.
News
Berlin Museum Covers Rembrandt as Heavy Rains Hit Germany
A visitor to the Gemäldegalerie today noticed “a leaky ceiling” and one of the Dutch painter’s canvases protected by a plastic sheet.
Art
Making Art 10 Years After Turkey’s Gezi Protests
In Berlin, where many artists settled after the protests that shook Turkey a decade ago, an exhibition grapples with the political repression and exile that followed.
Art
Berlin's Biggest-Ever Gallery Weekend Was Full of Wonders
The poetic history of melons, odes to Arabic calligraphy, and a dystopian badminton court were among the highlights across 55 galleries.
Art
On the Limits of Healing
Can anyone truly heal from a traumatic experience?
News
Critics Rebuke "Climate-Killer" Museum in Germany
Herzog and de Meuron’s design for the Museum of the 20th Century in Berlin has been accused of poor energy efficiency and called a "structural nightmare."
Art
Artists’ Doomed, Inspiring Resistance to Hitler
The stories of the Red Orchestra show the power of joy, creativity, and love in the fight against the compliance, fear, and silence upon which fascism still depends.