Germany

Miro or Caravaggio? Berlin's State Museum Authorities Are Forced To Choose.
Spencer Nelson |
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A donation of €150,000,000 worth of modern art is causing headaches for Berlin’s cultural authorities. With so little museum space and so much to show, curators and administrators are being asked to choose whether to display old masters or twentieth century icons.

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When Did Photography Become Art?
Spencer Nelson |
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The Neue Gallerie shows off sepia-toned masterpieces by Kuehn, Steiglitz, and Steichen.

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Postwar in Kassel and Kabul: dOCUMENTA (13)
Georgina Wells, Spencer Nelson |
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Curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev explores the idea of the postwar in an exhibition of two hundred artists spanning four thousand years of work.

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