The artist and film-maker’s historical feature about London during the Battle of Britain frames it as a traumatic experience that cut through ossified strata of class and racial hierarchy
A year after its unveiling was postponed indefinitely, concerns about Ottawa’s Memorial to the Victims of Communism remain
New technologies are helping to protect and preserve the vital eye-witness perspectives of a dwindling but determined community
What can museums and heritage institutions do about disinformation powered by artificial intelligence?
The oil sketch “Saint Gregory of Nazianzus” (1621) is one of five works by the Old Master that were unlawfully taken from the Friedenstein Foundation, with two still missing
The German artist's exhibition at the Kunsthaus Dahlem is a playground with a poignant message
The tiles decorated the bathing pavilion of Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw before they disappeared during the Second World War
Dix’s war painting The Trench, lost during the Second World War, is in focus at the opening
As the generation that served in the war ages, an experiential museum in New Orleans seeks to keep their voices alive
The four-hour film, shot mostly during the Covid-19 pandemic, opens in the US on Christmas Day
A rich exploration of the artistry of the film-making duo, founders of the Archers production company, who directed some of the most influential films in the history of cinema, from “A Matter of Life and Death” to “The Red Shoes”
Funding for the selected work will come from the government's Town Fund, designed to level up regions outside London
Westermann’s hand-carved wooden sculptures pop off cinema screens in Los Angeles and Chicago this month
The seven drawings, seized from public and private collections throughout the US, are collectively valued at nearly $10m
He was part of a group that saved thousands of artworks during the Second World War from destruction and seizure by the Nazis
UK defence secretary Ben Wallace made the suggestion following a review of LGBTQ veterans' experiences—but critics point out the minister's contradictory voting record
Conservation charity Landmark Trust plans to transform derelict building into unique four-bedroom house, due to open in 2025
The forest landscape, La Ronde Enfantine, will be returned by the Fitzwilliam Museum, UK, to the heirs of Robert Bing
New book uses artist's wartime commission in a coalmine to show his melancholy side and mildly left political strain,
The paintings, from the workshop of the Flemish master Dieric Bouts, were transferred from the Museo Provincial de Pontevedra in Spain to Gołuchów Castle
Research carried out in 2019 helped identify the remains as Preben Holger Larsen, a 26-year-old artist and member of the Danish resistance
New film uncovers how locations including Beaulieu, today home to the National Motor Museum, played a key role in intelligence training during the Second World War
Putin’s international cultural envoy, Mikhail Shvydkoy, says Poland’s request has no legal grounds
Ravilious was the first artist to be killed on active service during the Second World War
These five missing paintings might still survive—possibly looted and secreted away
The museum—set inside a Buckinghamshire country house—has opened its largest ever gallery, called the Intelligence Factory, this week
Plus, an exhibition about wartime hideouts in Poland and Ukraine, and Mondrian’s final work Victory Boogie Woogie
On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we spoke with Eyal Ilya, owner of Pentagon Auction House in Israel, about the trend for Second World War artefacts
Lawyers and collectors weigh in on new rule that sets a 30-year limit on claims to property that was stolen by Nazis and Communist leaders
An exhibition opening at the Cincinnati Art Museum reveals how 14 major museums found themselves caught up in a “morally dubious” tour of Germany's art treasures after the Second World War