News
Argentine Couple Placed on House Arrest in Nazi-Looted Art Probe
Police raided the home of Patricia Kadgien after an 18th-century painting plundered from a Dutch-Jewish art collector was spotted in a real estate listing.
Nazi
Film
Plunderer Shows How Art Looting Continues to Pay Off
The two-part documentary asks us to rethink what we know about looting, art restitution, the art market, and who the war’s heroes and villains really were.
Art
The Revisionist History of the Nazi Salute
Elon Musk’s defenders were quick to claim that his hand motion was actually an ancient “Roman salute” — but that gesture never existed.
News
War Reenactors Wear Nazi Uniforms to Restaurant, Angering Diners
The American Heritage Museum in Massachusetts said it would review its protocols for historical war reenactments after the incident.
News
Nazi Artifacts Found in Secret Room at Collector’s Home in Argentina
Over 75 Nazi artifacts were discovered hidden behind a bookcase in a suburban Buenos Aires home.
Art
An Online Project Shames Selfie-Takers at Berlin's Holocaust Memorial
In his chilling project "YOLOCAUST," Shahak Shapira manipulates the original selfies at the memorial to include actual photos of Nazi crimes.
News
German Court Protects Rights of Nazi-Saluting Artist
A German court ruled yesterday that Berlin and Hamburg-based conceptual and performance artist Jonathan Meese had not violated the country's notoriously strict anti-hate laws in his performances of the Nazi salute.
Opinion
The Nazi Ties of Joseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys is a canonical postwar artist, but was he really as progressive and enlightened as we've come to believe, and as he led us to think? A new biography of the artist, written by German-born Swiss author Hans Peter Riegel, kicks up the age-old debate about the separation of the artist and t
Opinion
And in Today's Nazi Art News…
Some days you come across two bits of random news that suggest a "motif" and today is one of those days and it's Nazis.