At the Phoenix ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in August 2009, a woman named Ibo brought in a painting titled Silberne Sterne (Silver Stars) by Lyonel Feininger, an American-born artist who spent most of his adult ...

It’s an open secret that much of the greatest art and literature of the twentieth century came from men and women directly impacted by the two world wars and their surrounding tragedies. J.R.R.

In works like "Ships Departing," artist Paul Klee's childlike abstractions evoke music and the world of the imagination. Klee left Germany in 1933 and died in his native Switzerland in 1940. His work ...

Introduction : modernity, modern art, and fantasies of postwar national identity -- Recuperating the modern : the Cold War battle for the 'real' -- Marking the postwar city : toward a mnemonic modern ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 led to an enormous loss of cultural heritage for the country: An estimated 15,000 objects, some millennia old, were looted from the Iraq ...

Matthew Modine is producing a new documentary on Stanley Kubrick‘s harrowing Vietnam War masterpiece from 1987, Full Metal Jacket. A Modern Art Masterpiece: The Untold Story Of Full Metal Jacket is ...