A museum in Germany is reportedly experiencing a surge in visitors after Taylor Swift released a music video that apparently references a painting in its collection. Visitors flocked to the Museum Wiesbaden last weekend to view Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser’s “Ophelia” (1900), which portrays the titular subject in a supine position, wearing a white, flowing dress, presumably drowning herself in a stream, as in the plot of the Shakespearean tragedy. A spokesperson for Museum Weisbaden told Hyperallergic that 500 guests visited the museum just to see the painting over the weekend, an increase they attributed to the Taylor Swift video release. The German artist’s rendition of Ophelia is eerily similar to one of the first scenes of Swift’s music video for “The Fate of Ophelia,” the lead track of her newest album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” The singer appears in a framed image lying in a stream with an arm outstretched, the same gesture as in Heyser’s painting; her gaze, like in the artw...