postmodern architecture is this museum in moenchen gladbach, germany, specifically designed by hans hollein to house avant-garde art. references to the greek citadel, to the skyscraper, and to the cathedral are all successfully combined here. what has been built in the eighties with the moenchen gladbach museum is more the museum as a temple or church, substituting the museum as a place for another god. and art is the new religion of today, where you don't understand, but you trust. that's what the religion is about. you have to trust because it's in the museum. anselm keiffer's massive winged book captures both the spiritual and the material-- the debasement of the word in our time and a persistent belief in it. the wings rise towards the heavens, while the material, lead, insists upon its place on earth. in departure from egypt, keiffer varies the surface texture, including straw and a metal pipe, which suggests the rod of moses, again to re-examine the symbols of belief that have endured in our culture. but in the 20th century, the forces of irrationality and violence have also endured.