Newsweek’s annual European museum tour reveals some thoughtful and often surprising spins on the news. If news headlines bolster cultural stereotypes, art breaks them down. That’s, in part, the aim of “Persia, 30 Centuries of Art and Culture,” at the Hermitage Amsterdam (through Sept. 15), the Dutch satellite of the venerable St. Petersburg museum. Similar surprises await those expecting to see the Gaza familiar from the news in a show at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva. The stutter-stop love affair between Europe and Russia is on display at the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow’s premier museum of Russian art. Other European shows also explore themes of cultural indentity.

Read full article (Newsweek International, June 4 2007 issue)

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