Truth Is Beauty, and Beauty Can Be Subversive

“Beauty really is a delicate subject in Germany,” Mr. Kjartansson said one morning last week, as he adjusted a scale model of the stage at the Art Deco-era Volksbühne, one of Germany’s largest state-run theaters. “In the name of beauty, the most despicable and disgusting things happened in this city,” he added.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/arts/international/testing-german-ideas-of-beauty.html?_r=0