The qualifications of an author to write about his or her subject are rarely so well established in an opening line as Michael Hans Kater’s are in the first sentence of After the Nazis: The Story of Culture in West Germany: "On Tuesday, May 1, 1945, I was drying a small collection of Hitler stamps on the windowsill of my grandfather's house in a small village near Bremen in North Germany." Kater, a distinguished research professor emeritus of history at York University whose work has covered a wide range of German history, here finishes a trilogy of work concerning, respectively, culture in the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, and, now, just what the subtitle of this new work says.
Famous for high-concept cooking, the notorious Thai artist restages some of his most famous meals at a New York retrospective that questions the future of food.
Insufficient art history? Or just another arbitrary show of contemporary art? LACMA's 'Woven Histories' is the most disappointing major art museum show I saw in 2023.
Presented across three spaces in the Swiss Alps, Nietzsche-Haus, the Segantini Museum and Hauser & Wirth, Gerhard Richter: Engadin runs until 13 April 2024.