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The First Art Newspaper on the Net   by Thomas Rogers (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- For almost 20 years, Werner Kohl has followed the saga of the Humboldt Forum. Like many Germans, he has been watching and listening since 2002, when the government approved a plan for the huge new cultural attraction in Berlin. That’s nearly two decades of debate, protest, overspend and delay. So on Tuesday evening, when he finally stood in the building’s darkened exhibition spaces, he was thrilled, he said. “I’ve been looking forward to this day from the beginning,” Kohl said. “I’m here to see if it delivers on what it proposed.” Kohl, 63, was there to see “Terrible Beauty,” a temporary exhibition of ivory artifacts ranging across 40,000 years. It was one of six inaugural shows in the Forum, which brings together several museum collections in a reconstructed Baroque palace. Located on the site of the demolished East German Parliament and conceived as Germany’s equivalent to the Louvre, the Hu

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