Nan Goldin Challenges Germany on What Artists Can Say About Israel (NYT, 2024-11-25)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/arts/design/nan-goldin-germany-gaza.html?unlocked%5C_article%5C_code=1.dk4.3A9R.hX2p0AkoFeHK
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“A speech by the artist at an exhibition of her work was followed by protests from her supporters and an uproar in the news media.”

“Claudia Roth, Germany’s culture minister, said in a statement that she was ‘horrified’ by Goldin’s comments and the protesters’ actions. ‘As commendable as Nan Goldin’s art is, I reject the political activist’s intolerably one-sided views on Israel,’ she said. The demonstrators had ‘come to the museum not to see art, but to shout down the director,’ she added.”

“Others said [director] Biesenbach had only himself to blame. An essay in [crudely conservative] Die Welt newspaper calling for his resignation said that allowing Goldin a platform had brought about ‘the saddest, most undignified and shameful moment’ in the Neue Nationalgalerie’s history …”

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