The painting is the first artwork to be allocated to multiple museums under a British law.
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A YouTube Doc Exposes What Went Down at the “Unite the Right” Rally
In Charlottesville: The True Alt-Right, creator “Shaun” lays out a recreation of the deadly 2017 event in Virginia with a precision only possible through social media documentation.
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New York Gallery Cancels Exhibition Featuring Boyd Rice, an Alleged Nazi
Amy Greenspon received what she describes as threats from colleagues in the art world after announcing an exhibition featuring the alleged white supremacist artist in her gallery’s fall lineup.
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UK Party References Nazi Propaganda in Pro-Brexit Billboard
In a remarkable demonstration of how to inflame public sentiment and paint one’s own organization as a vulgar and racist political group, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) has unveiled a billboard in support of the campaign to have Britain exit the European Union that visually references Nazi propaganda.
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Catalogue of Nazi Leader’s Looted Art Collection Published for the First Time
At the end of World War II, French soldiers confiscated a curious handwritten book from Nazi leader Hermann Göring. It listed every artwork Göring claimed to own.
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The Surprisingly Mundane Landscapes of Holocaust Sites
“When I looked at those photographs, something broke,” critic Susan Sontag once wrote, recalling the day in July 1945 she first saw pictures of Nazi concentration camps.
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Should There be a Statute of Limitations on Nazi-Looted Art?
Should countries set a deadline for restitution claims brought by descendants of Holocaust victims whose art was looted by the Nazis?
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Epic Done Right: Anselm Kiefer in London
LONDON — Anselm Kiefer’s retrospective comes at an odd cultural moment.
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How One Photographer Made the Nazis Look Ridiculous
It turns out the baby the Nazis chose as the ultimate representation of the Aryan race was Jewish.
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Museum Digitizes Entire Nazi “Degenerate Art” Inventory
The Victoria and Albert Museum published a remarkable document online today: the Nazis’ inventory of “degenerate art” (entartete Kunst).