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...August, rising nearly 25 percent higher than the preceding months. Summer tourism naturally accounts for part of the phenomenon, but local residents also have time off, and therefore the leisure to visit museums. The ones I visited this summer seemed well prepared to cater to this special audience. In Berlin, the Neue Nationalgalerie—housed in Mies van der Rohe’s great modernist shell—gutted its permanent collection and put up a massively advertised show of French impressionist and post-impressionist art from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Tickets were expensive...
Make sure to catch their written snapshots—assembled alongside photos of their summer locales, from Berlin to Beijing—in our special two-page spread...
Tragedy Given Shape In Berlin...
...seen pictures of Berlin’s Jewish Museum, actually arriving there can be a confusing experience. I had expected the surroundings to match Daniel Libeskind’s jagged zinc zig-zag of a building. As unlikely as such a construction might be in other cities, Berlin loves its cutting-edge architecture. And the museum fell along the border between the eastern and western parts of the city, suggesting that it might be part of one of the many deconstructionist paradises that sprang up on land formerly occupied by the Berlin Wall. Instead, I found a stark block...
...because large numbers take guts or popular courses. Instead, I suggest concerned students and faculty unite to agree upon and promote a common vision of general education for Harvard’s future. Now let’s see whether anybody steps forward to help break down this academic Berlin Wall...