From 1900-1930 German art gained its highly charged energy from its simultaneous relationship to modernity and primitivism. Both ideals, though in man...

The legendary Jewish gallery owner Alfred Flechtheim lost dozens of precious paintings during the Nazi era. For years, his heirs have been fighting fo...

Last October, the small, verdant city of Wuppertal, Germany was transformed by a street artist who goes by the moniker Megx. The artist installed colo...

German photographer Menno Aden turns familiar interior spaces into alien planes, simply by photographing them from above. Taking the perspective of a ...

Do you love the sound of your own voice? What about the way it looks? Berlin-based artist David Bizer has created a perfect way to pay homage to your ...

Most often artwork made with a cardboard box is referred to as a diorama and is made by a third grader, but sometimes the humble material can yield in...

Happy Birthday to one of our favorite surrealists, Max Ernst. Ernst's attitude towards authority was affected early on by his strict, religious father...

Amy Bessone's new collection "Hit Your Head!" is gruesome in a playful way, as if De Kooning was trying to make his daughter a birthday card. Bessone'...

Today marks the 124th birthday of German abstract painter Josef Albers. Known for influencing the new generation of American abstract painters, Albers...

Berlin artist Marcel Eichner creates haunting picture puzzles where distinctions between the banal and the surreal are chewed up and spit back out. Li...

We've all let our paranoia get the best of us, and anonymous art collective LuzInterruptus feels sympathizes. A vast departure from their Madrid insta...

Germany in the 1920s would have been an exciting time for an artist. The First World War had ended and a period of stability and creativity, known as ...

Art helps us to understand - at times only retrospectively - how events of great importance have left their mark on the lives not only of artists, but...

Is Valeska Gert (1892 -1978) the great missing link in 20th century culture?

It is not an accident that La Monnaie Vivante (The Living Currency), a performance art event after Pierre Klossowski, is being staged, or rather, expe...