Introduction: Modern Surface and Postmodern Simulation: a Retrospective Retrieval -- Agendas of Surface and Simulacrum -- Weimar Surfaces Now -- Tactility in the City -- Exhibiting Superficies -- ...

“Nothing is more exotic than what surrounds us, nothing is more imaginative than objectivity,” said the Austrian-Czech writer Egon Erwin Kisch in 1925. Kisch is among the dozens of writers, painters, ...

Hugenberg was Weimar, Germany’s version of William Randolph Hearst (think Rupert Murdoch today), owning newspapers, a news service and the Ufa film studio. Their news stories and movies often mirrored ...

Don’t go searching for Berlin’s newest museum among the imposing neoclassical monuments of Museum Island. You would be looking in entirely the wrong place. Dedicated to the works of George Grosz, the ...

The Weimar Republic, Germany’s flawed experiment in democracy in the 1920s, has become today’s paradigm for the failure of state and society. By the end of Weimar, the government seemed to have lost ...