“Nothing is more exotic than what surrounds us, nothing is more imaginative than objectivity,” said the Austrian-Czech writer Egon Erwin Kisch in 1925. Kisch is among the dozens of writers, painters, ...

Across the sixth floor of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, framed by its spectacular floor-to-ceiling windows, a sprawling, multidisciplinary exhibition is currently on show, devoted to works by the Neue ...

This week`s column answers questions sent in by readers. Q–I have a collection of unused German stamps with values up to two million marks. Do they have any value? A–During the early 1920s, inflation ...

WASHINGTON — A violent far-right attempt at insurrection. Scapegoating of minorities. Hints of antisemitism. Runaway inflation, even a “birther” conspiracy. Sounds a lot like Donald Trump and the Jan.

BERLIN - German designer Karl Lagerfeld, based in Paris from the 1950s until his death Tuesday, described himself as a "European", hailing the interwar Germany he never knew as a "spiritual homeland" ...

We had our doubts when Serge Lasvignes, Laurent Le Bon's predecessor as president of the Centre Pompidou, announced his intention to recapture the spirit of the great multidisciplinary exhibitions ...

In the 1920s and 30s, jazz was taking off in the United States and much of Europe, including Germany. Classical composers even began to meld jazz styles into their music. (SOUNDBITE OF WOLFGANG ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In the English-speaking world, "cultural studies" has become a major academic industry. Publishers' catalogs bulge with lists of books on film ...

German designer Karl Lagerfeld, based in Paris from the 1950s until his death Tuesday, described himself as a "European", hailing the interwar Germany he never knew as a "spiritual homeland" that was ...