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Top Berlin Museums Denounce Slashed Arts Budget: ‘Cuts Weaken Democracy'
Four high-profile contemporary art institutions in Berlin bitterly denounced plans by the city's Senate to dramatically slash the budget next year for arts funding, a lifeline for many museums and ...
BBC4y
Berlin mystery attack targets 70 museum artefacts
It is being described as one of the biggest attacks on art and antiquities in post-war ... artefacts were sprayed with an oily liquid on Berlin's Museum Island, a Unesco world heritage site ...
The Art Newspaper24d
Berlin government approves €130m culture cuts
They don’t come here for the food, they come here for the history and the culture,” says Emma Enderby, the director of the non-profit KW Institute for Contemporary Art. She notes that the ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency6y
Two Berlin museums return works to heirs of Jewish collector
(JTA) — Two Berlin museums have returned works to the heirs ... The foundation has overseen the return of some 350 works of art and more than 1,000 books to the heirs of persecuted Jews.
Frieze19h
Against the Tide: Introducing KW Institute for Contemporary Art’s New Director
Chloe Stead You’ve been director of KW Institute for Contemporary Art since last May. How are you finding Berlin? Emma ...
BBC4y
US Supreme Court hears dispute over Nazi treasure trove
The collection is said to be worth at least $250m (£187m). It has been on display in a Berlin art museum since 1963 and is now owned by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation - the ...
Business Insider2y
I lived in Berlin for 2 years and return often as a travel writer. Here's my complete visitor's guide to the German capital.
With shiny new architecture constantly popping up around the city, and abandoned World War II- and Soviet-era buildings reimagined as edgy contemporary art spaces and trendy clubs, Berlin is on a ...