The Twisted Logic of Documenta’s “Artistic Freedom”

Sep 11, 2025

S-21 is the name of a former high school in Phnom Penh that Pol Pot turned into a secret torture center and extermination camp. Between 1975 and 1979, 14,200 people were executed there. For the sake of the regime’s bureaucracy, every man, woman, and child was...

Controversy-Ridden Documenta Gets First All-Women Artistic Team

Aug 20, 2025

An all-women ensemble of writers, educators, translators, and curators will helm the artistic direction for the next edition of the pentennial art show Documenta in Kassel, Germany, slated to take place from June 12 to September 19, 2027. The international exhibition...