Second World War
German Academy of Arts opens Otto Dix archive—and recalls a scandal
Dix’s war painting The Trench, lost during the Second World War, is in focus at the opening
American Second World War museum uses AI to tell veterans’ stories
As the generation that served in the war ages, an experiential museum in New Orleans seeks to keep their voices alive
Ghosts in the streets: Steve McQueen documentary delves into the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam
The four-hour film, shot mostly during the Covid-19 pandemic, opens in the US on Christmas Day
The visual thrill of the legendary filmmakers Powell and Pressburger
A rich exploration of the artistry of the film-making duo, founders of the Archers production company, who directed some of the most influential films in the history of cinema, from “A Matter of Life and Death” to “The Red Shoes”
Public art tribute planned for codebreaker Alan Turing as AI summit opens in the UK
Funding for the selected work will come from the government's Town Fund, designed to level up regions outside London
New 3D documentary tells the multidimensional story of American artist H.C. Westermann
Westermann’s hand-carved wooden sculptures pop off cinema screens in Los Angeles and Chicago this month
US authorities return seven Schiele works to heirs of cabaret performer murdered by the Nazis
The seven drawings, seized from public and private collections throughout the US, are collectively valued at nearly $10m
Richard M. Barancik, the last living Monuments Man, has died, aged 98
He was part of a group that saved thousands of artworks during the Second World War from destruction and seizure by the Nazis
Statue of wartime code-breaker Alan Turing proposed for London's fourth plinth
UK defence secretary Ben Wallace made the suggestion following a review of LGBTQ veterans' experiences—but critics point out the minister's contradictory voting record
British wartime control tower to become holiday home after £3.1m restoration
Conservation charity Landmark Trust plans to transform derelict building into unique four-bedroom house, due to open in 2025
Courbet painting—seized by the Nazis and owned by a reverend—to be returned to its original owners
The forest landscape, La Ronde Enfantine, will be returned by the Fitzwilliam Museum, UK, to the heirs of Robert Bing
More than reclining women: how Henry Moore mined a rich seam with his drawings of working men
New book uses artist's wartime commission in a coalmine to show his melancholy side and mildly left political strain,
Virgin Mary and Christ diptych, stolen during Second World War, returned to Poland
The paintings, from the workshop of the Flemish master Dieric Bouts, were transferred from the Museo Provincial de Pontevedra in Spain to Gołuchów Castle
London's Wellcome Collection returns remains of death camp victim to Denmark
Research carried out in 2019 helped identify the remains as Preben Holger Larsen, a 26-year-old artist and member of the Danish resistance
Revealed: the hidden history of espionage in Britain’s heritage sites
New film uncovers how locations including Beaulieu, today home to the National Motor Museum, played a key role in intelligence training during the Second World War
Poland demands Russia return seven paintings it claims were looted during Second World War
Putin’s international cultural envoy, Mikhail Shvydkoy, says Poland’s request has no legal grounds
New documentary sheds light on artist Eric Ravilious, a romantic visionary lost in war
Ravilious was the first artist to be killed on active service during the Second World War
Could one of these lost Van Goghs—which disappeared during the Nazi period—be hidden in your attic?
These five missing paintings might still survive—possibly looted and secreted away
From cosy to creepy: new displays at Bletchley Park muddle Britain's honourable Nazi-fighting history with a contested present
The museum—set inside a Buckinghamshire country house—has opened its largest ever gallery, called the Intelligence Factory, this week
Has the art market recovered? A deep dive into the Art Basel/UBS report
Plus, an exhibition about wartime hideouts in Poland and Ukraine, and Mondrian’s final work Victory Boogie Woogie
Jewish icons or anti-Semitic memorabilia? The growing market for Nazi-era artefacts—and the Israeli collectors buying them
On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we spoke with Eyal Ilya, owner of Pentagon Auction House in Israel, about the trend for Second World War artefacts
‘Slap in the face’: Poland passes law effectively blocking Holocaust-era art restitutions
Lawyers and collectors weigh in on new rule that sets a 30-year limit on claims to property that was stolen by Nazis and Communist leaders
When the US was accused of ‘plundering’ Berlin’s museums: new show reveals murky history
An exhibition opening at the Cincinnati Art Museum reveals how 14 major museums found themselves caught up in a “morally dubious” tour of Germany's art treasures after the Second World War
Louvre probes its collection for Nazi and colonial loot in massive provenance research project
Museum launches an online catalogue of 485,000 objects while curators comb through wartime acquisitions and works from former colonies
Hunt still on for a Van Gogh self-portrait lost deep in a salt mine during the Second World War
The Magdeburg masterpiece may have been burned at the end of hostilities—but some believe it might have been looted and survive
In honour of Armistice Day, more than 100 English war memorials listed as sites of historical importance
Monuments commemorating the First and Second World Wars—mostly built in small towns and villages—are added to Historic England's list of protected places
Charting a Life: MacDonald Gill, who designed the inscriptions that form an egalitarian monument to the British and Commonwealth fallen of two world wars
The first biography of ‘Max’ Gill reveals the versatile talent of an artist who was a master of lettering and murals and a standout mapmaker-artist
Sculpture by Arno Breker—one of Hitler’s favourite artists—found buried in Berlin museum garden
Missing for 75 years, the large marble head, one of the artist's best-known works, was uncovered by chance during construction work at Kunsthaus Dahlem
National museum in Stockholm to return stolen 16th-century painting to Poland
Officials in Poland and Sweden piece together provenance of work by School of Lucas Cranach the Elder
Code-cracking lot: Second World War Enigma machine on offer at Vienna’s Dorotheum
The Germans believed Enigma was uncrackable; cryptographers at Bletchley Park broke the code, contributing to the Allies’ victory