Documenta 15 and Antisemitism

Monthly thoughts on society, politics, culture and art. What was feared has unfortunately become more than true. Documenta 15 became a hotbed of anti-Semitism in the land of the Holocaust. The Indonesian curatorial collective Ruangrupa attempted to offer a sheltered workshop to anti-Semitism in its latest guise — the demonization of Israel under postcolonial pretext. The now-removed giant painting by the Indonesian artist group Taring Padi, depicting an Israeli soldier with a pig’s head, became a portent of a cultural-political scandal …

Monthly thoughts on society, politics, culture and art. What was feared has unfortunately become more than true. Documenta 15 became a hotbed of anti-Semitism in the land of the Holocaust. The Indonesian curatorial collective Ruangrupa attempted to offer a sheltered workshop to anti-Semitism in its latest guise — the demonization of Israel under postcolonial pretext. The now-removed giant painting by the Indonesian artist group Taring Padi, depicting an Israeli soldier with a pig’s head, became a portent of a cultural-political scandal …