A Populist Leader Kicks Off a Culture War, Starting in Museums
Slovenia’s government has replaced the directors of major institutions. But it says “run-of-the-mill artists really have nothing to complain about.”
Prime Minister Janez Jansa of Slovenia in Brussels in October 2020. Artists and activists have protested his cultural policies since he took office in March.Credit.Pool photo by Olivier Hoslet
Published Jan. 27, 2021Updated Feb. 11, 2021
Last March, Janez Jansa, a nationalist politician who has been compared to President Donald Trump, became Slovenia’s leader for a third time. He was previously prime minister from 2004 to 2008, and, briefly, from 2012, until a corruption scandal brought his government down.