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Angela Merkel has been speaking for about 45 minutes to a Dresden campaign rally of some 2,000 people. She's not much of an orator, but her listeners are attentive as they munch sausages and drink beer in the sunshine. Even a group dressed up as cows - holding signs that say don't milk us! to protest her proposed increase to value-added tax ( vat) - are as docile as, well, cattle. Merkel has defended the unpopular policy, meant to fund a reduction in social-security contributions from wages, by arguing that "people don't earn too much in Germany...
...Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is among the world's most reproduced images. So when one of his original versions was stolen from Oslo's Munch Museum last August, along with his Madonna, the heist left art lovers as anguished as The Scream's subject. After closing for nine months, the museum reopened this summer with tighter security and a stirring new exhibit of works by the tormented Norwegian...
...Munch by Himself" is billed as a survey of the artist's self-portraiture. But whether nailed to a cross in Golgotha (1900) or lying in a pool of blood as the assassinated French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat in Marat's Death I (1907), Munch remains elusive, instead appearing in different metaphorical guises. There he is, too, leaning on a railing beneath a blood red sky in Despair (1892), an obvious precursor to The Scream...
...ller-Westermann assembled most of the exhibit's 150 oils, watercolors and graphic works from the Munch Museum's own vast collection, and added items from private collections and Stockholm's Moderna Museet, where she is the head of international art. Together the works form a powerful-and often uncomfortable-record of six decades of Munch's explorations of pain and troubled sexuality...
...Munch by Himself" is to run in Oslo through Aug. 28, and London's Royal Academy of Arts gets its turn from Oct. 1-Dec. 11. Despite several arrests in the case, The Scream and Madonna are still missing, but their disappearance has only heightened the public's fascination with the enigmatic Expressionist's work. tel: (47-23) 49 35 00; www.munch.museum.no