How our ‘neighborhood river’ shaped the Art Museum’s largest and most Jewish exhibition yet

How our ‘neighborhood river’ shaped the Art Museum’s largest and most Jewish exhibition yet

This is the second in our ongoing series on “Becoming the Sea,” the monumental new Anselm Kiefer exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum. If you missed our first story, which introduced the artist and the Jewish and St. Louis roots behind the show, you can read it here. Anselm Kiefer has depicted rivers in art before. He has flown over them, painted them, burned them into ash. But his newest works, now installed in the vaulted Sculpture Hall of…