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...National Gallery's exhibition, previously shown to packed galleries in Berlin and Amsterdam, is meant to explain the committee's methods and make the case for their soundness. It consists of two sections. In the first are 51 paintings now agreed to be indubitably by the master -- the finest "pure" Rembrandt show in memory. The second consists of a dozen "Rembrandts" now assigned to artists who worked with him; each of these is shown with two or three other paintings known to be by that pupil. In all, it is a wonderfully illuminating show, and it makes an unanswerable case...
...research project has also cut out some much loved paintings, once considered essential masterpieces, milestones in his art, like Berlin's Man with the Golden Helmet. This has caused tremendous indignation in some quarters -- a fuss comparable to the moment when Bernard Berenson made his name as an enfant terrible by downgrading half the supposed canon of Lorenzo Lotto nearly 100 years...
Nevertheless, the crux of the matter is summed up in a foreword by three directors of the show, Henning Bock of the Gemaldegalerie in Berlin, Henk van Os of the Rijksmuseum and the National Gallery's Neil MacGregor: "If Dou, Drost and Hoogstraten are the true creators of paintings that have for years delighted and inspired us ((as Rembrandts)), it is clearly time we took another look at them as well. Rembrandt remains a giant . . . But he is a giant surrounded no longer by pygmies, but by artists of real stature, whom we ought to know better." What seems...
...news conference in Berlin, Kohl felt impelled to deny that the governing coalition, shaken by the economy's troubles and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher's resignation, was in any danger. The opposition Social Democrats accused the government of "stupidity and provocation." They now top Kohl's Christian Democrats in the polls and are calling for the Chancellor's resignation. "The coalition is stable," Kohl insisted last week. (See related story on page...
...carried within herself more than her share of the calamitous contradictions of this century. She was born bourgeois in Berlin, avatar of some of the best in modern art and much of the worst in modern politics. Her father died when she was a child, her stepfather was killed in World War I, and her hopes for a career as a violinist were ended by a hand injury. By 1929 she was making a career on the German stage and screen. It was then that another of this century's perpetual emigres, gifted, egomaniacal Josef von Sternberg, noticed the "cold...