Alphonse Mucha — far more than a poster artist
The Nazis thought him ‘dangerous’, the communists spurned him as ‘decadent’ — now a new museum in Prague seeks to revive his ...
La Scala, the theater of Italy's passions
Dominique Meyer, the French director of Milan's opera, is due to step down in early March. He will be replaced by an Italian, as has been the case in many of the country's cultural institutions since ...
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How I spent a long weekend in Berlin exploring its turbulent past and vibrant present
November 9, 1989 sitting watching TV as the Berlin Wall was breached and destroyed under cover of night. I was glued to the ...
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The American City So Charming, You’d Swear It Was Plucked Straight From Europe
What comes to mind when you think of the city of Savannah? Is it the beautifully laid out squares that dot the city? Or ...
Hitler at home: How the Nazi PR machine remade the Führer’s domestic image and duped the world
With views of Germany on one side of the mountain and Austria on the other, the Berghof was the most public of Hitler’s private homes, and it exerted a powerful hold on the Nazi imagination of empire.
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Putin says ignoring Soviet role in liberation of Nazi death camps is shameful
MOSCOW, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said that ignoring the Soviet Union's role in liberating Nazi German death camps such as Auschwitz and not inviting surviving family ...
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Wolf Gruner: Newly discovered photos of Nazi deportations show Jewish victims as they were last seen alive
The Holocaust was the first mass atrocity to be heavily photographed. The mass production and distribution of cameras in the 1930s and 1940s enabled Nazi officials and ordinary people to widely ...
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Famous painting looted by Nazis returned to rightful owner
An €800,000 work by Jacob Jordaens was handed over to the descendants of a Belgian resistance fighter on 5 February 2025. The ...
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Joseph O’Connor: The Irish women who risked everything to resist the Nazis on the Roman Escape Line
On Saint Brigid’s weekend, this exclusive essay honours some of bravest women you may never have heard of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Rome in May 1938. Photo: Getty Visitors to Sant ...
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Survey of the Visual Arts: Ohio art on view at Decorative Arts Center of Ohio
"The Nearest Faraway Place: Ohio’s Painters, Makers & Their Mentors" is the latest exhibition on view at the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio (DAC) in Lancaster. The exhibition showcases the work ...
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Shows to see around Mexico City during Zona Maco
The best exhibitions, from painting and sculpture to video art, from major institutions and commercial galleries during the ...
Celebrate Black History Month in Cincinnati at these local events
Celebrating Black History Month, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday, Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum, Joe Nuxhall Way, ...