During the Cold War, governments around the world continued to view zoos through an ideological lens. This was especially true in Berlin, where the city’s two zoos – one in the capitalist West, the ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago ... went into hiding in the early 1940s. And when World War II was over, they did not re-emerge.

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

"If Americans can right themselves and return to democracy, be prepared to accept the censure of the world for decades to ...

Who was he? How did he, almost accidentally, end up in filmmaking? What makes his movies so unforgettable? K Narayanan traces ...

The recovered voices movement aims to preserve the work of persecuted artists like Viktor Ullmann and Mieczyslaw Weinberg.

The Third Reich used Terezin for propaganda ... important than recovering the looted art treasures that were found in a cave at the end of World War II,” James Conlon, a towering figure in ...

My comics readers are experts at picking apart and annotating not just words but also political cartoons, videos, propaganda ... I redesigned my pre-WWII totalitarianism unit last year through ...

Ai Qing became a literary hero during the Communist revolution following World War II, embraced ... we called artists ‘art workers,’ purely belonging to the propaganda department.