Anselm Kiefer’s Amsterdam Blockbuster Pits Art Against Despair

Let’s call this “The Work of Art in the Age of All This Bullshit.” You know the list by heart: climate disaster and its unevenly distributed miseries, global pandemics, racialized violence, state brutalities, forced dispossession, institutional collapse, war there and there and also there, neofascism, extinction-threatening technology, drowned migrant children on the shore. Ebullient oligarchs but the world is burning. Everything is moving too fast, the solutions are coming too