In 1943, Pablo Picasso received a desperate letter from an artist called Jeanne Kosnick-Kloss. “It’s all too late,” she wrote. “I have just been told that Otto has been sent to the north. Please do ...

The recently disclosed discovery, in a Munich apartment, of about 1,400 works of 20th-century European art looted by the Nazis has brought to light the first hints of a morally and politically complex ...

BERLIN — In January 1933, the Nazis celebrated their first General Election victory with an elaborate parade down the streets of Berlin. After watching them march triumphantly through the Brandenburg ...

Only the head and part of a shoulder remain in "Schwangere," Emy Roeder's statue of a pregnant woman. The work is part of "Degenerate Art: Modern Art on Trial Under the Nazis" at the Picasso Museum in ...

An old museum label alerted staff at Ketterer Kunst that the watercolor had been confiscated from the museum in Halle. Christian Rohlfs, Study according a tree trunk (c. 1914). Image courtesy of ...

After private backers pulled their funding for the initiative, the German government has confirmed that it will financially support the research center for Nazi-era “degenerate art” at Berlin’s Freie ...

Under the Third Reich, as the situation for Jews in Germany worsened, the fate of German art and artists was also in danger. Hitler, widely considered a failed artist himself, railed against art and ...

Leave it to the Nazis to make charity posters into advertisements for power-worship. In the late 1930s the Nazi regime created a traveling exhibition which contrasted Fuhrer-approved artworks with ...

On Friday evening, Donald Trump announced he was planning to fire multiple members of the federal government’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ board of trustees and name himself chairman.

The Songstress will see you now. Arrive at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum a half-hour before “Predator Songstress” is supposed to begin, and the title character is already waiting for you.