Someone should tell Pablo Picasso about art not being political.
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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Art should not be political? That about the most cowardly thing any artist could say. Even if I don't agree with the politics on display, I can still understand that they have the right to express their politics in art, although bad politics generally results in bad art. That's half the fun.
"Art should not be political", he said, thereby politicizing art. Fucking imbecile, 90% of good art is political. Now go fuck yourself with a broom handle, du Produkt einer mit Kleingeld vergüteten Liebesbeziehung.
Nazi Germany doing Nazi Germany things
Writing in India’s The Wire newspaper, Roy said she found recent remarks from members of the Berlinale jury, including its chair, acclaimed director Wim Wenders, that “art should not be political” to be “jaw-dropping”.
Fuckin lmao. Does dude think Animal Farm is about talking animals?
Decided to go look up who this guy is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Wenders
In 2009, Wenders signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges
Someone check the Epstein files for this guy.
Lol it's the same group of people who think human are items they can buy abuse and throw away.
To bastardize a very popular quote, everything in this world is political, except for politics. Politics is about money.
Meanwhile every politcal event is full of artwork, from music, flyers, videoclips, cartoons to the national anthem.
Arundhati Roy is badass
"art should not be political"
I'm pleased to hear extraterrestrial aliens have come to visit, because surely this is not a human being who has lived even one day of the human experience. Too bad the alien is cool with genocide.
I think the Berlinale jury needs to take a look at this list of films.
And when they've finished take a look at Picasso's Guernica.
Germany has a massive ongoing problem of using ethnicity to classify and ethnic-Descrimination being normalized, which adds up to Extreme Racism (it's the only country in Europe were a head of state has justified sending weapons and ammo to a Genocidal state whilst they were mass murdering children with the need to support the dominant ethnicity of the aggressor state).
This shit is definitely not Humanist Values - were people's treatment depends only on their actions and their need - but rather an older way of looking at other people and the World which, curiously, is very much the same as the NAZIs, though not quite yet taken to the same extreme in terms of action inside of Europe (though the same can't be said for Palestine).
The revelation of Modern Day Germany being so profoundly Racist that even Genocide committed along ethnic lines is something that the country will support as long as the ethnicity of the genociders is as "good" ethnicity, should be scary for all of us Europeans as you never know when Germany decide that other European ethnicities too are "lesser" and this that they can be eliminated to take their land just like Israel is doing to Palestinians.
Wim Wenders
God fucking damnit, why are they all such pieces of shit???