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As she stages a non-stop reading of Hannah Arendt\\u2019s The Origins of Totalitarianism for five days at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Tania Bruguera reflects on growing concerns about the censorship of artists in Germany in relation to the Israel-Hamas war. She also discusses the comments made by Ai Weiwei this week that censorship in the West was now \\u201cexactly the same\\u201d as in Mao\\u2019s China. The Courtauld in London this week opened an exhibition of the monumental charcoal drawings made by Frank Auerbach in the 1950s and early 1960s, and we take a tour of the exhibition with the show\\u2019s curator Barnaby Wright. And this episode\\u2019s Work of the Week is Mihrdukht Aims Her Arrow at the Ring, a folio from the Hamzan\\u0101ma (Story of Hamza). Made in India in around 1570, during the Mughal period, it is one of the works acquired by the British painter Howard Hodgkin in a lifetime of collecting Indian art. The collection is the subject of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which opened this week. Navina Najat Haidar, one of the co-curators of the show, tells us more.

Tania Bruguera: Where Your Ideas Become Civic Actions (100 Hours Reading \\u201cThe Origins of Totalitarianism\\u201d), Hamburger Bahnhof \\u2013 Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin, until 11pm on Sunday, 11 February. You can hear a discussion about Hannah Arendt\\u2019s legacy and her influence on artists in our episode from 15 January 2021.

Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads, The Courtauld, London, until 27 May.

Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, until 9 June. And you can hear my interview with Antony Peattie, Hodgkin\\u2019s partner for the last few decades of his life, about the artist\\u2019s final paintings, on the episode from 25 May 2018.

Offer: you can still buy The Art Newspaper\\u2019s magazine The Year Ahead 2024, an authoritative guide to the world\\u2019s must-see art exhibitions and museum openings\\u2014many of which were discussed on our podcast from 12 January. Get a print and digital subscription to The Art Newspaper at theartnewspaper.com before the 15th of this month to receive a copy of The Year Ahead with your next printed issue. Or you can buy the magazine on its own on the website for just \\xa39.99 or $13.69.

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