Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie during her sold-out reading at the Literaturhaus in Frankfurt, May 12, starting her reading tour through Germany. She presented her new novel ‘Americanah’, first published in 2013 and winning the National Book Critics Circle Award (NBCC).
A visitor looks at an abstract painting by late US artist Ad Reinhardt [1913-1967], aptly named ‘Abstract Painting’, at the Städel museum in Frankfurt, May 10, during the ‘Long Night of Museums’. Museums and cultural institutions remained open late into the night, drawing a crowd of some 35,000 people.