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."
Germany
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.
Art
Did a Children’s Cartoon Predict the Upside-Down Mondrian Blooper?
Binky the “art expert” showed us how to correctly hang a Piet Mondrian painting in an episode of Arthur more than two decades ago.
News
Oops! Famous Mondrian Painting Hung Upside Down for 75 Years
Despite the finding, Mondrian’s “New York City I” will continue to be displayed as it has always been shown: incorrectly.
News
Climate Activists Give Monet’s “Grainstacks” a Mashed Potato Facial
Germany’s Barberini Museum is the latest institution hit by the burgeoning food-on-masterpieces trend of climate activism.
Comics
Documenta 15 in the Shadow of the Russia-Ukraine War
"What does it mean to arrive from a country with a fascist regime?" asks Russian dissident artist Victoria Lomasko.
News
Documenta 15 Closes With Strong Attendance Despite Controversy
Though roiled by antisemitism allegations, 738,000 people attended, a modest 17% decline from the previous, pre-pandemic edition.
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DAS MINSK Opens With Exhibitions on Wolfgang Mattheuer and Stan Douglas
This new kunsthaus in Potsdam shows modern and contemporary works of art from East Germany in what was once a terrace restaurant.
News
Documenta Artists “Outraged” Over Censorship of Pro-Palestine Films
An open letter co-signed by 100 individuals and organizations says the festival’s advisory council has miscast any criticism of Israel as antisemitic.
Art
Documenta 15 and the Power of Productive Disruption
The most fruitfully jarring artistic disruptions at documenta 15 unsettle their own settings, stealthily intervening in traditional German institutions or landmarks.
News
The Odd History of Germany's "Unicorn" Fossil
Dubbed “one of the worst fossil reconstructions in history,” the so-called “Magdeburg Unicorn” again making rounds on the internet.
News
Europe’s Extreme Heat Waves Bring Art to a Standstill
A floating art project can’t reach Documenta because the Weser River is too low and museums in the UK shutter galleries to keep workers and collections cool.