The New Leipzig School? What School?

“Ever since the movement’s ‘discovery’ in 2003, when Miami collectors Don and Mera Rubell went on a shopping spree in the former East German city, the New Leipzig School has been the talk of the art town.” But, Blake Gopnik says, a touring exhibition of the Rubells’ collection proves that it’s “not much of a school. There isn’t any shared agenda among its artists or even much in common other than an education at the conservative Leipzig Art Academy. (One thing they do have in common is their male sex. The only Leipzig women on view at the Katzen are in the paintings. They’re often nude.)”