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What did a Meru bride wear to her wedding?

The symbolic shedding of culture was commonplace. When Pope Pius XI organized his exposition, boxes upon boxes were shipped to Rome. The content of these boxes were objects, together with comprehensive notes on their attendant histories and how they had been acquired.

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 Black Study: Of Absence, return and renewal

Throughout modern history, Africans have struggled to claim ownership over the use and circulation of their own cultural objects. Bluntly put, Africans don’t profit from black cultural production within the current economic system. 

Stuttgart State Orchestra 1:1 concert with guitarist Jonas Khalil playing solo at the port of Stuttgart | Photo (detail): © Staatsoper Stuttgart Photo (detail): © Staatsoper Stuttgart

Classical, Contemporary and Early Music 2020
 The year the show went online

As in many other areas of society, the coronavirus pandemic took a heavy toll on German musical life in 2020. Patrick Hahn recalls what did happen last year all the same in the classical, contemporary and early music scenes.

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The Goethe-Institut invites experts and creatives worldwide to exchange ideas on colonial power relations, their consequences and, above all, how to dismantle them: in discourses, interviews, opinion articles and art projects. For a decolonized and non-racial world.

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TIMEZONES, a series of podcasts in English coproduced in 2020 by Norient and the Goethe-Institut, uses experimental audio collages and interviews with various international performing artists to explore their daily working lives - and inner lives - in various far-flung parts of the world.

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