Warsaw's gorgeously reconstructed Old Town and, in its rising downtown, the new museum of modern art, by the New York–based ...

During World War II, Soviet forces trained dogs to carry explosives under Nazi tanks—a desperate attempt to halt Germany’s ...

In times of societal collapse – whether war, oppression or pandemic – art emerges not as a luxury but as a vital lifeline, a means of ...

As Germany devolved into chaos at the end of World War II, a rare violin from the famed shop of Italian luthier Antonio ...

The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was formed in the USSR in 1942 to solicit international Jewish support for the forces ...

Pavilion 13 opened in 1967 to celebrate the Soviet Union’s coal mining industry. Now, the building has been transformed into ...

There's a revolving door of talent between the country's premiere intelligence agency and its entertainment industry, with ...

Seventy years ago, on September 17, 1955, a modified Convair B-36 departed Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. Legendary U.S.

Gary Shteyngart's 'Vera, or Faith,' and a painstakingly researched history of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan at the end of ...

Tove Jansson was a trailblazing illustrator and author—and the inventor of the beloved Moomins, the central characters of her ...

A survey of art and design from the 1940s at the Philadelphia Museum of Art reveals how creativity flourished out of hardship.