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Article: Open city. (public art, 'Sculpture Projects 1997,' Landesmuseum, Munster, Germany)
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- Art in America
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- September 1, 1997
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In the center of Munster, the capital of the German state of Westphalia, stands the Landesmuseum -- officially the Westphalian Museum for Art and Cultural History. Just opposite is the city's largest cathedral, and between them lies a great plaza where each Saturday an open-air market is held -- a West European idyll with farmers, students and, in early summer, enormous quantities of fresh strawberries. To newly arrived visitors, Munster's historic inner city may appear to have escaped the destruction of the Second World War. In fact it was bombed to unrecognizability by the Royal Air Force, in retaliation for the Luftwaffe's attacks on Coventry. During the postwar ...