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‘Overloaded.’ criticised some reviewers. ‘Too many works.’ wrote others. But not one had found it ‘Too empty.’

This edition of our Tuesday Question has to do with quantity. And we posed it to our curator, Monika Flacke: 

The Jewish graphic artist Leo Glückselig emigrated with his family from Vienna to New York in 1938. Almost sixty years later, he saw a photograph of a work by the French artist Christian Boltanski in a newspaper article about an art exhibition. And was immediately taken aback by what he saw. 

With the Tuesday Question we want to introduce a blog category dedicated to the questions most frequently asked by visitors. We hear about these questions from the security staff in the exhibition and the guest book. We also enjoy the contact via Facebook or Twitter (#D4freedom) very much.

Last weekend we had a celebration at the museum and the question that our curator Monika Flacke heard most frequently was:

How are the objects chosen for an exhibition?