Documenta

Break-ins and vandalism, accusations of racism and anti-Semitism and a giant compost heap: Documenta, one of the world's biggest art fairs, opened under a cloud of controversy.

The exhibition, which turns the sleepy German city of Kassel into the center of the art world once every five years, kicked off on June 18 after months of bitter rows.

Zagreb-based NGO Documenta - Centre for Dealing with the Past said in a new report that the number of war crime trials held in Croatia last year was the lowest since 2005.

Documenta 14's 100 days in Athens come to an end on Sunday. The international art event, which is based in Kassel and crossed German borders for the first time in his lengthy history to be cohosted by another European city, provoked waves of antipathy, despair from ideologically diverse camps and ridiculous amounts of criticism, but also praise and acceptance - albeit to a lesser extent.

Part of documenta 14, Lebanese-Polish artist Brigitte Polemis presents "#iFollow" at the Bouziani Museum, an exhibition that explores the adaptation of social media to modern-day life and the addiction many have today to getting "likes" on their posts. Visiting hours are Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from noon till 7 p.m.

A Greek-style temple made out of banned books hopes to stir debate about censorship at the site of Nazi book burning in central Germany.
It looks like the monumental temple standing imposingly at the Acropolis in Athens. But this replica in central Germany is not built with marble, but books that have been or remain banned.

Documenta 14 presents the Kukuruz Quartet in a concert titled "Piano Interpretations," with pieces by African-American composer Julius Eastman (1940-90), hailed by The New Yorker as a "guerrilla minimalist" and a "brazen pioneer," at the Athens Concert Hall on Tuesday, July 4.

The Athens State Orchestra, conducted by Julio Cesar Santos Campos, presents the world premiere of Joaquin Orellana Mejia's "Symphony from the Third World" at the Athens Concert Hall on Wednesday, June 28.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos was greeted by residents of Kassel, Germany on Saturday with signs saying "Never Again" in honor of the victims of the Distomo massacre, which was carried out by the Nazis on June 10, 1944, during their occupation of Greece.

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis will attend Saturday's launch of documenta 14 in the German city of Kassel, the traditional home of the art exhibition, where it is to run until September 17.

For the first time in the exhibition's 60-year history, documenta was held outside its traditional home, premiering in Athens on April 8, where it is to continue until July 16.

A life-sized model of the Greek Parthenon - covered in forbidden books donated from around the world - stands in central Kassel right where Nazis once burned banned books.

It is a centerpiece of Germany's biggest contemporary art exhibit, documenta 14.