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THINK OF Dusseldorf and the image that comes to mind is of a big, wealthy, commercial city at the heart of the huge North Rhine conurbation, which these days stretches all the way from Cologne almost to the Dutch border. Beauty hardly seems to come into it; and yet one weekend in Dusseldorf is enough to reveal it as a glittering city full of parks, theatres and lakes, and some of the most magnificent art galleries in the western world.
At the Kunst Palast in the north of the city, - a vast 1930s complex of galleries and museums, complete with parkland and fountains - there's a mind-bendingly brilliant exhibition of the late work of Andy Warhol, who often visited Dsseldorf in pursuit of his working relationship with the German artist Joseph Beuys. Set to tour Liechtenstein and Lyon after this premiere, the exhibition offers a dazzling range of insights into the relationship between post-1960s art and the world in which it operates - between art and advertising, art and the photographic image, art and gender, junk television, cheap movie-making and the cult of celebrity.See the full content of this document
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But it's the big city theatre, the Schauspielhaus, that's the focus of our journey, the venue, this past weekend, for a British Council-sponsored UK theatre showcase that includes two performances of the Traverse Theatre production of Henry Adam's 2003 Festival hit The People N...
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