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A seventy-million-dollar renovation beautifully presents the museum’s non-Western art—even if doubts remain about whether all ...
Brooklyn artist Jonathan Blum is celebrating 60 years around the sun, and Arts Gowanus is marking the milestone with a ...
BERLIN, Germany — A century after the city of Berlin banned swimming in the Spree River because it was so polluted it could make people sick, there’s a push by swimmers to get back into the ...
BERLIN — A century after the city of Berlin banned swimming in the Spree River because it was so polluted it could make people sick, there's a push by swimmers to get back into the water.
As President Putin presses his war against Ukraine, the Moscow subway system has unveiled a bas-relief proclaiming: “Gratitude of the People to the Leader-Commander.” In this case, the leader is ...
Walther launched a namesake museum in Neu-Ulm, Germany, in 2010, displaying various photographs and other works by artists including Ai Weiwei, Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé, Bernd and Hilla ...
Born in Berlin in 1931, artist Frank Auerbach was sent to England alone as an eight-year-old refugee to escape Nazi Germany, leaving behind his Jewish parents, who would later lose their lives in a ...
Paul Klee’s ‘Ships Departing’ (1927). Photo: Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin/ARS, N.Y. Fort Worth, Texas Contrary to much popular belief, all art is not political.
PARIS – If all you saw of the exhibition at the Picasso Museum here was the art itself, you would recognize at once that here are wonderful canvases, powerful canvases, from many decades and ...
Germany’s unconditional capitulation was signed at Allied headquarters in Reims, France, on May 7 and came into effect the following day. But the Soviet Union had only a liaison officer at the ...
BERLIN (AP) — Central Berlin was in ruins after the Red Army completed the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in an intense fight for the capital in May 1945. After decades of division and its revival ...
Germany was reunited in 1990 and the national government moved to Berlin in 1999. Parliament now meets in the restored Reichstag, where the raising of the Soviet Union’s red flag in 1945 was ...