Chaïm Soutine at K20

While giving a systematically overlooked modernist his due, a Düsseldorf retrospective continues a long art-historical tradition of obscuring Soutine’s painterly ambivalence.

Rosemarie Trockel at MMK Frankfurt

While its staging of 300+ works is uniquely comprehensive, a Frankfurt retrospective fails to contextualize Germany’s best-known woman artist.

New Old Problems

A tour of three recent Berlin art initiatives – Center for Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Berlin, and Callie’s – poses questions about gentrification, state cultural policy, and the dwindling availability of art spaces in Germany’s creative capital.

95 years of Now

In the summer of 1919, a gallery devoted entirely to the works of living artists – the so-called Galerie der Lebenden (Gallery of the Living) – opened in the Kronprinzenpalais in Berlin. Alfred H. Barr Jr., who would go on to become the founding director of MoMA ten years later, was deeply impressed by its presentation of contemporary work. Are the origins of the museum of contemporary art perhaps to be found in Berlin?