Berlin’s culture bosses must become more commercial
However distasteful this might seem to them
“I don’t really know that much about art,” joked Philipp Demandt, director of the Städel Museum, the top fine-arts museum in Frankfurt. “In Frankfurt it’s all about money.” Mr Demandt was speaking on April 11th at the inauguration of “Dioscuri—the Given Day”, a special exhibition of a monumental painting, 65 metres long and consisting of 24 panels, one for each hour of the day. The work, based on the Greek myth of the unequal twins Castor and Pollux and created by Michael Müller, a German-British artist, is now being shown in the vast staircase of the Neues Museum in Berlin.
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