“In Germany, you don’t have to shell out thousands of dollars to live with an original Andy Warhol. As you would a book from the library, you can check out original art from one of 140 publicly funded “art libraries,” or artotheken. Born in the 1960s to increase Germans’ contact with art, “art libraries” are now an established tool of municipal cultural policy, and one which, for many, act as a door opener.”