Art
Following their creation of an anti-fascist art installation for a show at Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, the artist-activist group Peng! Collective found themselves at the center of a perhaps inevitable brouhaha.
Art
A look back at all the questions, contradictions, omissions, and elisions of last year's bauhaus imaginista exhibition reveals that it was a show about contemporary Germany as a country as much as it is about whatever we are calling “the Bauhaus.”
In Brief
An organ recital of a piece by the composer began in 2001 and will run until 2640. This weekend, listeners gathered to hear its 14th chord change.
Film
The Museum of Modern Art has released a short film of a German elevated train from its archives, and it absolutely rules.
Art
Since about the 1970s, a new and largely post-vernacular Yiddish culture has started to develop in many, often unexpected, locales around the world. A related visual aesthetic now seems to be emerging.
News
Friends and family remember Rebeccah Blum, who was killed in Berlin on July 22.
Books
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
With Black Chapel, Gates references the racism embedded in modernism’s failure to adequately acknowledge non-white sources of inspiration.
News
A German cathedral is polishing the shrine of Saint Corona for an upcoming exhibition, expecting “more interest due to the virus.”
Art
The Voice Before the Law explores the ways in which linguistic uses and misuses are bound to legal systems.
Art
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
A nightclub advocacy group went before the German Parliament to request new laws that will protect the nation's clubs from gentrification.