Slovakia’s hard-right culture minister, Martina Šimkovičová, fired the director of the country’s most influential theater last week. A day later, she fired the director of the Slovak National Gallery. Šimkovičová cited some reasons, but the artistic community thinks the real reason is a concerted crackdown on artistic expression. The World’s Sarah Birnbaum reports.
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