Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/arts/design/documenta-review.html

The first international art exhibition Documenta held in the city of Kassel in 1955 consciously excluded Jewish artists. Curator Werner Haftmann, a former N**i who tortured Italian partisans, felt there were no worthy Jewish artists whose works should be displayed.

In 2022, at the latest iteration of Documenta, works by non-Jewish artists with antisemitic imagery are displayed, but no works by Jewish or Israeli artists.

It is time for Documenta to confront its own problematic history and address honestly the issue of antisemitism past and present. Antisemitism is not a matter of opinion or context but a crime of hatred.

Photo courtesy of Documenta website