NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Laura Morowitz, art history professor at Wagner College, about the incredible back story behind a Gustav Klimt painting that set a record at auction.

Behind the thunder of tanks and Stukas, Germany’s war machine relied on an older force: more than 2.75 million horses. They ...

This makes film’s presentation feel extremely — for lack of a better word — basic. The movie, however, never figures out ...

Tried for crimes against humanity, top Nazis listened as their brutality was detailed before an allied tribunal in Nuremberg.

Once one of Belgium’s medieval powerhouses, Ghent today is home to one of Belgium’s biggest universities and a vibrant ...

A Spanish museum is challenging California's new law designed to help a family seeking to reclaim a famous painting taken ...

The Winds of War was a groundbreaking 80s miniseries that brought WWII to life with unprecedented scope, accuracy, and ...

This week we organised a sort of school trip, taking a team of editors and writers from Monocle to see the Lee Miller show at ...

Andres Veiel’s “Riefenstahl” is an arresting and deeply disturbing all-archival portrait of the titular Third Reich ...

The cast is extensive with over 60 voice actors appearing, including Hollywood celebrities Morgan Freeman, Meryl Streep, Tom ...

By sensationalizing the styles he despised, Hitler added to the mystique of the audacious avant-garde artists, many of whom ...

In “Fateful Hours,” the road map to authoritarian disaster is laid out in gleamingly sinister detail by the German historian ...