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Some exhibitions might have been better as books, and "Berlinart 1961-1987," the Museum of Modern Art's big summer show that closes Sept. 8 in New York City and reopens Oct. 22 in San Francisco, is one. Its senior curator, Kynaston McShine, took on a large subject, perhaps too large. The re-emergence of Berlin as a major center of the visual arts, after twelve years of Nazi darkness and a decade of limping postwar chaos, is not the only story of post- 1960s art, but it stays up there on the front page. Much against the odds...
...behind a small number of masterpieces, some of which are in this show. Neoexpressionism also left behind a quantity of unresolved questions, such as its degree of aesthetic success and its relation to American abstract expressionism, that are scarcely broached in the catalog. Given the scope of its subject, "Berlinart" is only a sketch. One can imagine half a dozen more focused shows spun off from it. But it is certainly worth seeing for its own sake...
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