Director of Polish Institute in Berlin Fired for Jewish Content | artnet News
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The cultural manager and director of the polish culture institute in Berlin, Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska, was fired this past Tuesday from her position. According to the German left-leaning daily TAZ that broke the story, Poland’s right-wing PiS-led government called for her immediate departure due to her programming, which included “too much Jewish-themed content,” as Poland’s ambassador in Germany Andrzej Przyłębski had complained.
Art Teacher Fired After Saying ’Vagina’ - artnet News
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Everyone knows that Georgia O’Keeffe’s flower paintings are highly suggestive, often resembling vulvas. And now everyone knows that you apparently cannot talk about that if you’re a middle-school substitute art teacher in Michigan, thanks to national attention to a controversy roiling the school system in Harper Creek, near the city of Battle Creek.