Kassel

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.

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.

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.

Part of documenta 14, Lebanese-Polish artist Brigitte Polemis presents her exhibition "#iFollow" at the Bouziani Museum. The exhibition explores the adaptation of social media to modern-day life and the addiction many have today to getting "likes" on their posts. The launch of the exhibition will take place Tuesday, May 16, at 8 p.m.

The story of Hellenic Textile Mill starts in the 19th century, in the cosmopolitan Ottoman Empire, and ends at a building complex on Pireos Street that has been home for the last few decades to the Athens School of Fine Arts, where the Sikiaridis and the Ambazoglou families, bonded by marriage, founded one of the country's most important textile mills.

Artist Maria Fragoudaki staged a performance titled 'BedSheets: The Duality of Freedom' as part of the documenta 14 art exhibition, at Athens's Syntagma Square on Thursday night.

It just takes a visit to the National Museum of Contemporary Art, which opened - no small feat considering how many years of failed efforts it's taken - to welcome one of the main exhibitions of the documenta 14 international art fair, to understand the spirit, sheer breadth and kaleidoscopic approach of this event, one of the world's biggest and most important.