Documenta art festival director to quit in anti-Semitism row: organisers

Festival staff members of documenta take down the controversial work entitled "People's Justice" by the Indonesian artist collective Taring Padi last month in Kassel, Germany. The director general of documenta, one of the world's biggest art fairs, will resign in the wake of outrage over anti-Semitic exhibits on display, the event's organisers announced on July 16. Photo: AFP

The director general of Documenta, one of the world's biggest art fairs which opened last month in Germany, will resign following outrage over anti-Semitic exhibits, the event's organisers announced on Saturday.

Documenta, which every five years turns the sleepy German city of Kassel into the centre of the art world, features more than 1,500 participants and for the first time since its launch in 1955, had been curated by a collective, Indonesia's Ruangrupa.