Germany’s angel of history is screaming

For two months, Paul Klee’s notebook-page sized “Angelus Novus” (1920) hung alone in a small room at Berlin’s Bode Museum, the centerpiece of the much-anticipated exhibition “The Angel of History.” With its wide-eyed, jagged-toothed angelic subject seemingly suspended between motion and paralysis, the watercolor print (pictured below) has cast a surprisingly long shadow over 20th-century philosophy — especially through the eyes of Walter Benjamin, who…