"Kunst in der DDR": Neue National Galerie, Berlin.

This exhibition was not to be missed. The first--and perhaps, unfortunately, the last--massive museum survey of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and film made in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the forty years of its existence (1949-89), "Kunst in der DDR" (Art in the GDR) couldn't have been timelier.

Its opening coincided, albeit unintentionally, with a cresting wave of nostalgia in Germany for East Germany. Six and a half million viewers watched the inaugural episode of the DDR Show on German television the first week in September, and almost as ...

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