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...Louvre in Paris from March 14 to June 2, seeks to re-establish that reality. It deftly illustrates how 2,000 years of Babylonian history gave rise to manifold myths, and how European artists and thinkers responded to and transformed them. Put on jointly by the Louvre, Berlin's Staatliche Museum (where the exhibition moves on June 26) and London's British Museum (where it will open on Nov. 13), it's an unprecedented collaboration that brings together nearly 400 artifacts and pieces of art. Béatrice André-Salvini, a curator at the Louvre, says it marks...
...later found sealed inside a wall in the house of an SS officer, Kurt Gerstein, who committed suicide after Germany's surrender. Gerstein was in charge of delivering poisonous gas to the death camps, and faced punishment for war crimes. Other works surfaced only after the fall of the Berlin Wall. One of Delacroix's own favorites, Portrait of a Young Man, in which he portrays a pale aesthete wearing a blue cap, was found after a former German soldier on his deathbed confessed to his priest that he possessed the missing painting. The priest informed the French embassy...
...Watching these shows imparts a valuable lesson about decoding and participating in a social world: We all are constantly creating narratives for ourselves. Steven Berlin Johnson observed the cognitive value of reality TV in his book Everything Bad is Good For You: “As each show discloses its rules and conventions, and each participant reveals his or her personality traits and background, the intrigue in watching comes from figuring out how the participants should best navigate the environment that’s been created for them.” Watch closely, watch often, and patterns start to emerge...
...take on a period piece in The Other Boleyn Girl. What is your favorite time in history? -Nikki Barrett, York, PA.I'm really interested in 1920s Berlin. I read this great book by Amos Elon called The Pity of It All. It's about Jewish life in Berlin right before the war. The whole environment of the salons and all this culture-there was a real openness and freedom. It's scary to think the response to that was this incredible fascism...
...writing Passing Strange three years ago. The loosely autobiographical show recounts the artistic journey (in scenes acted, sung and danced by a full cast) of a young man from a middle-class L.A. neighborhood to the drugs-and-free-love wonderland of Amsterdam and a radical artistic commune in Berlin...