The year 1937 is haunting the culture news just now. That is, the “Degenerate Art Show” comes up a lot. “It’s classic ‘degenerate art’ stuff,” I hear someone say, shaking their head, referring to ...

LACMA is being gifted more than 100 works of Austrian Expressionism, including its first paintings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, by the family of the legendary Viennese art dealer Otto Kallir.

A spectral island, a lone white figure, and a drifting coffin—Böcklin’s Isle of the Dead (1880–1886) became an enduring symbol of death and mystery.

During the second world war, the Abwehr, the German intelligence service, was known for having spies all over the world. When it wasn’t yet clear if General Francisco Franco, Spain’s dictator, would ...

The survey brings together more than 150 works by 100 different artists for a peek behind the clichés of apparently idyllic Nordic life ...

Consider Supporting HoH: In 1946, the second world war had just ended, a Dutch artist and art collector stood trial in Amsterdam. His charge? Collaboration, for selling cherished cultural heritage to ...

Ever since, Earth-X has been ravaged by a never-ending war between the Nazis and small pockets of resistance fighters. The resistance is spearheaded by patriotic super-soldier Uncle Sam and his team, ...

Saidiya Hartman, Minor Music at the End of the World, dir. Sarah Benson, 2025. Commissioned and presented by Hartwig Art Foundation, world premiere at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam. Photo: Fabian ...

Jonathan Freedland, an award-winning columnist with The Guardian, has given the world a timely notice of the consequences of totalitarianism and tyranny in 'The Traitors Circle' ...

Some say that acting is a deceptive art, and it doesn't get truer than that. Across Hollywood, you'll find many stories where beloved screen couples barely managed to keep it professional. Their ...