Harold "Bud" Pressel was injured when he bailed from his B-24 after it was struck by flak over enemy lines in 1944. He's ...

Eighty years ago, on January 27th, 1945, the extermination and concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by the Soviets. Of the 69,000 Jews deported from France, only 3 percent survived.

The museum’s largest collection is of post–World War II art and features some of the most famous individuals from the mid-century art scene. While the 1950s were marked by overall ...

Artwork dedicated to Japanese Americans incarcerated in WWII were discovered vandalized on Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Day ...

When it comes to the arts in America, the second quarter of the 20th century is significant. That's not only because it was ...

In 2022, Lithuania’s then-Minister of Culture Simonas Kairys decided that performing Russian composer Tchaikovsky’s classic ...

An art installation in Nihonmachi Alley commemorating the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was smeared with black ink over the weekend.

By Josephine Sedgwick The fair, with 77 exhibitors, is a mini-museum, featuring arts, antiquities and design objects, from old masters to art jewelry. By Walker Mimms The National Gallery in ...

When Howard moved back stateside, she became an adjunct professor at John Brown University, teaching English composition, since she likes writing; as well as World War II art looting and art history.

The salute became popularized in the 18th and 19th centuries in artworks and theatre performances, showing Romans saluting as ...

Highfalutin taste, the exclusiveness of art history, the total abstraction beloved by post-World War II art critics in New York City: These were prime targets for counterculture artists on the West ...

Sitting on the couch of his Boca Raton condo, Art Polacheck is scrolling through his Facebook account to show me photos from ...