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 ...

From 1943 through 1946, more than 3,400 prisoners (including 15 Nazi generals) were processed at Fort Hunt, according to ...

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 ...

In 1939, before the outbreak of World War II, Lempicka and her second husband, a Jewish baron, fled Europe for the United States. She continued painting another four decades, until her death in 1980.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...