“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” – Banksy

Hell, NO! We are Germans.

Art, books and Germans. Always a fickle relationship. What happened in ze land of ze Krauts?

‘All the Red Lines Have Been Crossed’: Just Days After Opening, Documenta Conceals an Artwork Depicting Antisemitic Stereotypes

Organizers of Documenta 15 have decided to drape a large curtain over the artwork by Indonesian collective Taring Padi.

Detail of the mural People’s Justice by the Indonesian artist group Taring Padi. In the center of the artwork, one can see a figure that appears to be an Orthodox Jew with an “SS” on his hat, as well as a pig wearing a helmet with “Mossad” written on it. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)

“Artistic freedom ends where xenophobia begins.”

Ah, ze Germans …