Buildings often have a layered history. One such building is Berlin’s PalaisPopulaire, constructed in 1730 as two separate houses located on the city’s moat. Soon enough, the Prussian architect Friedrich Wilhelm Diterichs united them with a majestic central structure, turning them into a veritable palace. In 1788, when King Friedrich Wilhelm III’s daughters Charlotte, Alexandrine, and Luise moved in, the building became known locally as the “residence of princesses.” It would remain so, changing tiaras and families, until the fall of the monarchy in 1918. Thirteen years later, it reopened as the Schinkel Museum, but that was short-lived. In 1933, Hitler and his Nazi cronies burned 20,000 books in the nearby Opernplatz. The museum stayed shuttered until 2018. This exhibition, which draws on art from the Deutsche Bank Collection, uses the building’s history as both backdrop and anchor. The ethereal show contains works from 1946 to the present. —Elena Clavarino