On July 19, 1937, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party opened a propogandist Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich, Germany. The gallery was filled with modern art, trussed up and defaced with mocking captions—a ...
HOW MUCH: $6 general admission, $5 N.M. residents, $4 seniors, $3 children ages 4–12, at cabq.gov/artsculture/albuquerque-museum Editor’s note: “Modern Art and ...
The year 1937 is haunting the culture news just now. That is, the “Degenerate Art Show” comes up a lot. “It’s classic ‘degenerate art’ stuff,” I hear someone say, shaking their head, referring to ...
IN the first half of the 20th century, German art was crushed and twisted by two wars and artistically ignorant totalitarianism. Some of Germany’s artists succumbed to Hitler’s demands, some lost ...
Every month, hundreds of galleries add newly available works by thousands of artists to the Artnet Gallery Network—and every week, we shine a spotlight on one artist or exhibition you should know.
The “Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945” exhibition, which is debuting in Fort Worth ahead of a nationwide tour, traces the development of German modern art over the span of three decades ...
An intimate portrait of a lesbian couple, a sunlit scene of young men by the water, and a fairground study of androgynous figures — these works open Queer Modernism. 1900 to 1950, a bold new ...
Nothing has been more remarkable in the cultural life of the past decade than the speed with which the imperatives of the modern movement have been stripped of their authority. Twenty years ago it was ...