Review
“American artist and curator Fareed Armaly has declined Germany’s Käthe Kollwitz Prize, citing the censorship controversies within the country’s cultural institutions.
The annual €12,000 award, given out by the Academy of Arts in Berlin, established in 1992, recognizes established artists for key achievements. Armaly, who was born in the U.S. and is Lebanese-Palestinian, rejected it over what he called a ‘highly politicized, reactionary shift’ in Germany’s cultural policies.
Armaly claims the standards are designed to silence pro-Palestinian views.”
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