Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie: Observations

Things have quieted down. Che fare? Was tun? Foolish feeling foolish feelings. How to go? What put? What to do? There comes and goes a green dog, a red dog, a white dog, a black and blue dog. Or, is

Between The Ancients and The Moderns

It became a familiar curatorial move: the inclusion of a few works of contemporary art interspersed among collections of more venerable, more properly art-historical art.  The thinking seems clear: it’s win-win, isn’t it?  Potential stuffiness is relieved; connections are made;

The Past is Always a Step Ahead

I tend to talk a lot when I get excited. I often get excited when looking at art. This makes me not always the best of museum- or gallery-going companions, as sometimes I get to talking without really realizing other

“beneficial to business men”

“The non-objective picture is far superior to all others in its influential potentiality, educational power, and spiritual value to humanity… It stimulates intuition and trains the acquisition of spiritual balance and order… The contemplation of a non-objective picture offers a