On weeks like the fair- and biennial-filled one New York just had, there is a citywide welcoming of new art. “Degenerate Art” reminds us that in mid-20th-century Germany and Austria, some avant-garde ...

ON March 31, 1937, the Associated Press reported from Berlin that the German Government is preparing to give the German people "a new conception of property rights differing radically from the ideas ...

[GERMANY’S efforts toward economic self-sufficiency have aroused much speculation, particularly regarding her attempts to create substitutes for raw materials. Dr. Jellinek, one of the leaders in this ...

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Paul Klee's small, poignant gouache-on-paper "Masked Red Jew" (1933) is a childlike, abstract portrait that also serves as monument and oracle. It is part of the Neue Galerie's informative and ...

From the exhibition “Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937,” on view at the Neue Galerie through June 30, 2014. (Photo: © Rheinisches ...