It is good to see Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie can forgive even if its new show is proof it definitely does not forget.
Ulay, Ulay & Abramovic marks 50 years since performance artist Ulay walked out of the museum with Carl Spitzweg’s The Poor Poet under his arm as part of a performance intended to highlight racism in 1970s Germany.
Ulay stole the painting, described as having been Adolf Hitler's favorite, hung it in the home of a Turkish immigrant family and then gave himself up along with the undamaged painting. He ended up in court but his crime was punished with a fine paid by his friends.
The show examines his solo work and 12-year-long collaboration with Marina Abramovic and runs from November 28 to May 2.
But at its heart is the film he made about his 1976 theft which the museum describes as questioning its role as "a place of cultural authority" and challenging ideas of "cultural representation, belonging, and exclusion in 1970s West Berlin".
The museum has brought another version of The Poor Poet, on loan from the Grohmann Museum in
Milwaukee, for the show curated by its director Klaus Biesenbach.