VIENNA’S NEW HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL

Vienna’s controversial new Holocaust Memorial in the Judenplatz is a wonder. “The artist herself has consistently refused to explain or interpret her work, but it speaks for itself in a number of different ways. While from a distance, it is reminiscent of a temple, close up it looks more like a hermetically sealed library. Its walls are concrete casts of row upon row of books. Yet the books are facing the wrong way. Their spines, and titles, are facing inwards so we will never know what these books are called and what they contain. – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung