DAAD BERLINER KUNSTLERPROGRAMM

DAAD BERLINER KUNSTLERPROGRAMM (The Berlin Artists’ Program; 1963-). Whereas most of the grant-giving programs in the arts have no shame about mostly supporting people whose work is conventional, who are safely established professionally, the first distinction of this artists’ program, to translate, was to invite to Berlin, customarily for several months at a stretch, the world’s avant-garde, including many of the artists and writers featured in this book—among them, Michel Butor (in 1964)…