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Article: Subject is too big for show.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- November 22, 1998
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"A Laboratory of Modernity: Image and Society in the Weimar Republic," at the Busch-Reisinger Museum, through Jan. 10.
It's hard to quibble with "A Laboratory of Modernity: Image and Society in the Weimar Republic." Many of the pieces in the show at Harvard's Busch-Reisinger Museum are remarkable.
Hard, but not impossible. And overall, this exhibit is wanting.
In part, the fault is with the show's size. How could the Weimar Republic, as a lab for modernity, be encapsulated in a single gallery? How could all the unrest, political and economic strife, artistic idealism and activism in the wake of World War I be contained within four walls? How ...