10-01-2017 22:00 via theartnewspaper.com

Poland's clampdown on its cultural institutes

Poland has carried out a sweeping reorganisation of its overseas branches of cultural institutes, dismissing the directors in Berlin, New York, Stockholm, New Delhi and Vienna. Critics say that the countrys right-wing government, which came to power in 2015, is starting to impose its political views on the arts.
The director of the Polish Cultural Institute in Berlin, Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska, was fired in December, apparently for devoting too much attention to Jewish issues, according to r
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