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...nevertheless disappointed in the show. "Everything started to change," she says. "This exhibit is very defensive, and it excludes what was happening between 1980 and 1989." The show's most distinctive body of work was produced by the Leipzig School, a group of painters led by Bernhard Heisig, Werner Tübke and Mattheuer - artists who walked a tightrope between conformism and independence, and displayed visible links to past masters. Heisig's Beharrlichkeit des Vergessens (Persistence of Forgetting), which deals with German militarism, contains a section from an Otto Dix painting, creating a lineage that transcended art in the G.D.R...
...Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Through August 24. Hours: Monday through Saturday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday, 1-5p.m. $6.50, $5 students/seniors, free for Harvard ID holders, Cambridge Public Library card holders, and children under 18. Busch-Reisinger Museum, Werner Otto Hall...
...order to maximize space, the Fine Arts Library may move across the street from Werner Otto Hall, adjacent to the Fogg, to the current Sackler building, which houses the Department of History of Art and Architecture. Werner Otto Hall will be rebuilt as an exhibition space...
...World War II, Werner Otto fled with his family to Hamburg from their Soviet-occupied home in what is now Poland. He won a license from the British authorities occupying the town to start a shoe factory, and in 1949 he founded a mail-order firm that is now the core of the family fortune. His son Michael was 28 when he joined the firm in 1971, and he became chairman a decade later. At the time, Otto Versand was a thriving German business with sales of about $2.5 billion. Today, recently renamed Otto GmbH & Co., it's a worldwide...
...money for the arts has risen slightly. But governments across Europe are pressuring arts bodies to become more self-sufficient - even to embrace once-taboo methods like privatization and corporate sponsorship - and to recognize that commercial viability is as critical to survival as artistic merit. "Culture is business," says Werner Heinrichs, dean at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. "Nobody should pretend that these two things are not linked." That lesson is being learned at the Staatsoper on Unter den Linden in Berlin. The city of Berlin faces debts of more than €45 billion...