To fill the 2½ kilometers of wall space they arranged a big retrospective of 19th and 20th century ... contemporary art, was devoting entirely too much space to the works of the dead.

In the late 19th century, artists were going goth. Works like Vincent van Gogh’s Head of a Skeleton With a Burning Cigarette (1886), Edvard Munch’s By the Deathbed (1893) and Hugo Simberg’s ...