Selfies banned at Dutch museum`s Nazi design expo
(Artdaily.org)

A Dutch museum has banned visitors from taking photos at a controversial exhibition of designs from Hitler`s Nazi regime to stop them being `interpreted the wrong way`. The crowds at the Design Museum in Den Bosch -- which has been sold out since `Design in the Third Reich` opened earlier this month -- look like those at any other museum, but with two important exceptions. Firstly, there is the extraordinary backdrop -- 277 articles ranging from a 1940s Volkswagen Beetle to statues of Hitler`s favourite sculptor Arno Breker, propaganda posters and films by Nazi director Leni Riefenstahl. And secondly, the tell-tale lack of the smartphones that are normally ubiquitous at any tourist attraction or place of interest anywhere in the world. The exhibition`s opening prompted protest from left-wing and anti-fascist groups who said they feared it could