A Curator Defends His Show Exploring Nazi Imagery

More than a month before the March 17 opening of his new exhibition, “Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art,” and long before anyone has even seen any of the pieces in the show, the ink is flowing: The Wall Street Journal, The Daily News, Newsweek and The New York Times have all mentioned the exhibition in conjunction with “Sensation,” the Brooklyn Museum of Art show that former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani tried to shut down in 1999.

Mr. Kleeblatt has an odd take on this. The problem, he said, is that at this point “the works are shown only in reproduction” in the catalog. And that is the worst way to see installation art and sculpture, which many of this exhibition’s works are, he noted. These pieces are big and confrontational. They are meant to engage the viewer, to raise questions. They are incomplete without the viewer in the gallery. NY Times