>"Olaf Scholz’s indecisiveness is more than a political failure."

>"The latest issue of Yukiko Yamane's zine RISIKO is an ode to Krautrock, an experimental, West-German rock movement from the 1960s and 1970s associated with bands such as Tangerine Dream and CAN. Although the progressive genre was born _...Read More_

"The rebuilt Prussian palace is finally open, but the debate about how – and whether – it should house collections from Asia and Africa rumbles on, writes Daniel Trilling"

"A new book recounts one woman’s struggle to find looted art – and then convince a major museum to give it back"

>"The case of Curt Glaser, an art historian who sold his collection before fleeing Germany, illustrates how differently museums can respond to similar _...Read More_

Other radical Germans turned on the Wagnerian heritage of aesthetic reverie itself. For, as every Germanophobe knows, Hitler was a Wagner fan. The German Marxist Walter Benjamin argued in the 30s that fascism is an aesthete’s ideology, its _...Read More_

Albrecht Dürer may not have written Lament on Luther, finds study Research suggests elegy on arrest of Protestant reformer was the work not of the German artist but of a monk

>"If Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn breaks the law on German soil, there will be immediate consequences, Foreign Minister _...Read More_

Slowly does it: chord changes in John Cage's 639-year-long organ piece Fans gather in a German church to hear the first new sound in composition, Organ/ASLSP, for six years

Tolerance can’t confront racism alone. Philosopher Susan Neiman addresses the rise of Black Lives Matter protests in relation to scarcely acknowledged colonial pasts, arguing that it’s high time to face up to responsibility previously _...Read More_

Rutte clashed with colleagues through four days of talks Merkel, Macron at heart of negotiations on plan they devised

>"The African-American contralto gave a brilliant demonstration of her full humanity at a time when white supremacists wanted to deny it."