Slovakia's new culture minister appears to crack down on artistic expression
by editors@theworld.org (Sarah Birnbaum) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6Q46G)
Slovakia's hard-right culture minister, Martina imkoviova, fired the director of the country's most influential theater last week. A day later, she fired the director of the Slovak National Gallery. imkoviova cited some reasons, but the artistic community thinks the real reason is a concerted crackdown on artistic expression. The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports.