In recent years the cities of Germany as well as the towns of middling size have become more eager to erect or enlarge municipal art museums. In towns where the state has provided no museum it is obviously most desirable to get such an important center of artistic culture under way. But what is an excellent thing in Ulm, for example, is not so good where, as in a capital, it arouses competition with pre-existing institutions. A dignified arrangement has been reached in Nuremberg, where the chief burgomaster, Dr. Luppe, with characteristic intelligence, aids the German National Museum in buying examples of older art, and thus the City Gallery of Modern Art does not cause or suffer any competition. In Munich the city administration is more ambitious, and in a few months the more inclusive, new City Art Gallery will be opened. The Villa Lenbach has had a large annex added; and the city is not only supporting the living artists by purchases and orders but is also buying the works of nineteenth century Munich ...