""This Too Will Not End Well.""
""This is a city that we used to consider a refuge,""
""Everything was extreme.""
""gagged by the government, the police, and the cultural crackdown.""
Nan Goldin returned to Berlin to rebuke the German government and cultural apparatchiks during the opening of her retrospective, titled This Will Not End Well. Berlin once served as a gritty refuge for international artists, offering cheap rent, abundant studio space, and generous public cultural funding. That environment attracted a global creative community and helped reposition the city as an artistic capital. Rapid gentrification and rising real-estate values followed, but the city retained experimental energy. Since October 2023, aggressive government responses to support for Palestine have triggered a nationwide cultural crackdown that critics say restricts speech and artistic freedom.
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