Posts Tagged: documenta festival

BDS Versus Modern Art
JNS.org – “BDS appears here as contemporary art’s foil. BDS undermines contemporaneity’s claims of autonomy and emancipatory effects, fixes its meanings in ways that might...

Stung By Repeated Antisemitic Incidents in 2022, Germany’s Jews Face A Difficult New Year
Last week, Nancy Faeser, Germany's Interior Minister, nervously observed that antisemitism in her country persists “not only on the fringes, but also at the heart...

Germany Unveils New Public Information Campaign to Combat Antisemitism
As Germany prepares for this week's anniversary of the 1938 "Reichspogromnacht" — or Kristallnacht — when hundreds of Jews were arrested and murdered and Jewish-owned...

German Art Festival Dogged by Antisemitism Allegations Refuses to Remove Pro-Palestinian Installation ‘Glorifying Terrorism’
The series of scandals concerning the display of antisemitic works of art at the flagship Documenta festival in Germany continued to fester this week, as...

German Jews Call for Resignation of New Documenta Art Festival Director as Antisemitism Scandal Festers
The scandal over antisemitic artworks on display at Germany's prestigious Documenta festival of contemporary art continued to fester on Friday, as Jewish activists demanded the...

Antisemitism Scandals at Major Art Festival Demonstrate Danger Posed by BDS Campaign, Says Head of German Jewish Community
The successive scandals over antisemitism plaguing one of the world's leading showcases for contemporary art demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the BDS...

New Revelations of Support for Anti-Israel BDS Campaign Pile Pressure on Beleaguered German Art Festival
Germany's flagship Documenta festival of contemporary art is facing the removal of its federal government funding as fresh allegations of antisemitism among its curators and...