The Living Mountain: why a second world war meditation on nature’s fragility and wonder is still relevant today
Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain is a meditation on the Cairngorms. Decades on, its quiet wisdom remains urgent, reminding ...
German president opens major exhibition on Peasants' War of 1525
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier opened a major exhibition on the Peasants' Revolt in the Bavarian town of Memmingen ...
The Paris Review4d
Dreams from the Third Reich
"I dreamed that the milkman, the gas man, the newspaper vendor, the baker, and the plumber were all standing in a circle ...
The Nazis loathed modern art. They launched a war against it.
Degenerate Art,” an exhibition at the Musée Picasso in Paris on the Nazis’ persecution of modern artists, is about culture ...
The Columbian4d
‘In war, nobody wins and everybody loses’: 99-year-old Vancouver resident helped liberate Frankfurt from Nazis
Harry Humason glided his finger over a worn page in a world atlas. He paused when his fingernail brushed against a small, yellowed Post-it note with a handwritten message reading simply, “Frankfurt.” ...
This shocking sculpture invokes both Nazi delirium and Jewish theology
Anselm Kiefer’s “Breaking of the Vessels,” weighing more than seven tons, is one of the artist’s many manic dissections of ...