Ms. Zavialova said the decision to keep the exhibition up until the end of the war was “unorthodox” for a museum (art experts agree), but necessary for capturing the ongoing struggle.

And war as a perpetual reality, nascent or active, is the main subject of the work of the photographer An-My Lê, whose lucid New York survey is at the Museum of Modern Art through March 9.

In honor of the bicentennial of the War of 1812, the Georgetown University Library Associates and the Lecture Fund invited archivist David Ferriero to speak on the history of the National Archives in ...