Dix’s art was deemed an “insult to the German heroes of the Great War.” Elsewhere in the exhibition, one could visit the "Insanity Room,” which displayed abstract paintings.

Clara Peeters, A presumed self-portrait with a lavish display of objects in a vanitas still life and a still life of flowers ...

A survey of art and design from the 1940s at the Philadelphia Museum of Art reveals how creativity flourished out of hardship ...

Ian Rogers was convinced it was up to him to save America. The gun industry’s sales tactics — playing up paranoia and ...

Miyoko Ito survived an earthquake, incarceration and illness. Her transporting paintings defied ideas about abstract art. By the time she painted this mysterious work in 1975, Miyoko Ito — the ...

For her, the abstract style offers freedom, a way to express emotions and ideas without being confined to realistic forms. At the same time, her paintings celebrate Malay cultural heritage through ...

Each botanical illustration of a species is paired with a diagram, all different and depicting the properties she perceived ...

Adolf Hitler was a master of manufacturing public-security crises to advance his authoritarian agenda. He used inflammatory tactics and rhetoric to disable constitutional protections for the ...

Hitler had been more circumspect when he addressed the Reichsrat, a federal body of state representatives intended to monitor the relationship between the Reich and state governments, on Thursday ...

Nina McGehee's journey to uncover the art also helped her understand the emotional weight her family carried with them when they left Germany.

PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission sent out the latest round of refunds to consumers it says were “tricked” ...