Inside the First Contemporary Exhibition at Berlin’s Reopened Neue Nationalgalerie

Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and opened in 1968, I once heard it said that Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie looks like the world’s dopest Texaco station. After five decades of hard use, the legendary David Chipperfield was entrusted with renovating the building six years ago: the safest pair of safe hands considering his past successes across the German capital. Despite myriad changes (Chipperfield previously compared the revamp process to “surgery”) the steel-roofed icon is finally open to the public once again, looking more formidable than ever. Don’t call it a glo-up! Continue reading

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