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    After 70 Years, Si Lewen’s Wrenching ‘Parade’ Marches On

    This sequence of 63 bravura antiwar drawings hasn’t been shown in New York in nearly seven...

  • Women Who Made Art in Japanese Internment Camps Are Getting Their Due

    A traveling exhibit will focus on the work of three Japanese American women artists, Hisako Hibi,...

  • The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Rage and Grief

    Käthe Kollwitz’s fierce belief in social justice and her indelible images made her one of Germany’s...

  • Amnon Weinstein, Who Restored Violins From the Holocaust, Dies at 84

    Many were left behind by victims of the gas chambers. He let the instruments be heard...

  • David Seidler, Oscar-Winning Writer of ‘The King’s Speech,’ Dies at 86

    He drew on his own painful experiences with a stutter in depicting King George VI’s struggles...

  • Jonathan Glazer Condemns ‘Occupation’ and Violence in Israel and Gaza

    Glazer, the director of “The Zone of Interest,” spoke about the war while accepting the Oscar...

  • Josette Molland, Who Told of Life in Nazi Camps Through Art, Dies at 100

    She endured horrors as a captured member of the French Resistance, and to ensure that her...

  • Josette Molland’s Testimony: Scenes of Life in Nazi Camps

    In the 1980s, she created a series of paintings depicting the horrors she endured in forced-labor...

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    With a New Holocaust Museum, the Netherlands Faces Its Past

    The new institution in Amsterdam is the first to tell the full story of the persecution...

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    Review: Shanghai’s Open Door to Jews, Remembered in Music

    “Émigré,” a bland oratorio about brothers who flee to China to escape Nazi persecution, was given...

  • Bonnefanten Museum Examines Its Connection to Nazi Looted Art

    The Bonnefanten museum’s “Art Adrift” exhibition represents the museum’s effort to grapple with its own complex...

  • Investigators Say Chicago’s Art Institute Is Holding onto ‘Looted Art’

    The museum asserts it is the rightful owner of an Egon Schiele drawing that New York...

  • In ‘The New Look,’ It’s Chanel Versus Dior in War-Torn Paris

    Juliette Binoche and Ben Mendelsohn play the two fashion icons during the Nazi occupation of France...

  • With ‘Masters of the Air,’ a 10-Year Dream Lifts Off

    The Apple TV+ series from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks is an heir to their World...

  • One Hope From Changes at This Holocaust Museum: Fewer Nazi Selfies

    A redesign at the Zekelman Holocaust Center near Detroit provides less opportunity to pose in front...

  • Under the Radar at BAM: ‘Our Class’ Review

    The story of a 1941 massacre is told through the lives of 10 Polish classmates, five...

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    Setback for Heirs in Long-Running Nazi Art Restitution Case

    A U.S. Court of Appeals decision allows a Spanish museum to keep a Pissarro in a...

  • In Steve McQueen’s ‘Occupied City,’ a Marriage of Art and History

    Steve McQueen collaborated with his wife Bianca Stigter to make “Occupied City,” a four-hour documentary that...