Long time - no see. I have been travelling the past 3 weeks and thus had no time to be in here...but here I am again. Last week I went to Berlin, I wanted to see the city again 10 years later, and also visit the NY Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition of the 19th-century masterpieces of the French artists (including my favourite - Claude Monet, see picture) that is currently on display at the new national gallery in Berlin (http://www.metinberlin.org/en/home/). The exhibition is called "the most beautiful Frenchmen come from New York". This got me thinking on war and disagreement between Germany and France. A couple of decades ago this exhibition would probably not be in Berlin. Since I also spent a lot of time in the jewish museum in Berlin, which by the way is one of the best museums I have ever visited, I thought a lot on the WWII. I couldn't help but thinking that when you think about Germans in Paris it is about war, and now when you think on Frenchmen in Berlin it is about beauty and art.
