News
Reflecting on the Life of Rebeccah Blum, Accomplished Curator, Editor, and Translator
Friends and family remember Rebeccah Blum, who was killed in Berlin on July 22.
Germany
Books
Shaking Up the Ethnographic Museum
In a new book, the curator and art historian Clémentine Deliss proposes that “ethnographic” artifacts be reconsidered, remediated — and maybe even returned to their original owners.
Art
Theaster Gates's Emotional Confrontation With Racism
With Black Chapel, Gates references the racism embedded in modernism’s failure to adequately acknowledge non-white sources of inspiration.
News
The True Significance of St. Corona, the Viral Saint
A German cathedral is polishing the shrine of Saint Corona for an upcoming exhibition, expecting “more interest due to the virus.”
Art
Lawrence Abu Hamdan Knits Language to Power
The Voice Before the Law explores the ways in which linguistic uses and misuses are bound to legal systems.
Art
Sonia Gomes’s Sewn and Twisted Traces of History
The artist’s act of pulling materials apart and stitching them into a new form creates a tangible bridge between the past and the present.
News
Berlin Nightclubs Seek the Same Federal Protections as Theaters and Opera Houses
A nightclub advocacy group went before the German Parliament to request new laws that will protect the nation's clubs from gentrification.
Art
An Artist Presents Menopausal Women's Bodies as Powerfully Sexual
Inspired by Jean Genet’s 1950 homoerotic Un Chant D’Amour, Pauline Curnier Jardin's recent film Qu’un Sang Impur (2019) interrogates patriarchal credo through the lens of its unseen bodies.
Art
Tiepolo, Once Dubbed the Greatest Painter in Venice, Gets a Retrospective
For Tiepolo: The Best Painter of Venice, the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart has gathered together much of the artist’s finest work, including a choice selection of his portraits and many of his paintings on religious, historical, and mythological themes.
In Brief
You Better Be a “Meister” If You Want to Start a Business in Germany
The German parliament voted that trade workers in 12 professions will once again need a Meisterpflicht, or master craftsperson certificate, to start a business.
News
German Police Release Footage of a High-Profile Museum Heist; Officials Say the Jewels Were Uninsured
The video shows two men breaking into the Green Vault at Dresden's Royal Palace with an axe, stealing a trove of 18th-century jewelry.
News
Official 3D Scans of Nefertiti Bust Are Released After Three-Year Battle
After years of refusal and controversy, German cultural authorities allowed artist and designer Cosmo Wenman to publish scans of the 3,364-year-old bust under a Creative Commons license.