“ART IN THE GDR” STIRS DEBATE

The biggest-ever retrospective of East German art opened this week at Berlin’s New National Gallery amid a wave of controversy, Deutsche Welle reports. Titled “Art in the GDR,” the exhibition has come under fire from East German artists, who have lodged a range of complaints. Painter Moritz Götze, for example, told a German daily that the show ignores small-town East Germany and does a poor job of situating the artworks in their larger political context.