DALLAS (AP).- As commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower explicitly ordered his troops to safeguard objects of cultural and historical importance whenever possible — even while fighting a war of devastat…
Audio of Dwight D. Eisenhower Speech at New York’s Metropolitan Museum Found
DALLAS (AP).- As commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower explicitly ordered his troops to safeguard objects of cultural and historical importance whenever possible — even while fighting a war of devastat…
The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon ~ Portugal’s Finest Museum of Classical Art
The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon (the “Gulbenkian”) owes its existence to one man. Calouste Gulbenkian revealed his passion for art at an early age, reflecting his upbringing in Cappadocia and Constantinople, both crossroads of civilizati…
The Contemporary Jewish Museum Presents Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In the early years of World War II, Charlotte Salomon, a 23-year-old Jewish artist from Berlin, fled to the south of France where she shut herself into a hotel room and spent two years feverishly painting the history of her life. Sh…
Getty Museum to Return Looted Painting Previously Owned by Jacques Goudstikker
LOS ANGELES (AP).- The J. Paul Getty Museum has agreed to return a 370-year-old painting that once belonged to an art dealer who fled Holland when the Nazis invaded in 1940. Jacques Goudstikker was the Netherlands’ biggest art dealer in the 1930s. He …
Museum in Poland Acquires a Missing Collection of Composer Frederic Chopin’s Letters
WARSAW (AP).- A collection of Frederic Chopin’s letters telling of the Polish composer’s daily life, from giving lessons to the hot chocolate he drank, have gone on display in Warsaw’s Chopin museum more than six decades after they went missing. The s…
US Museum Seeks to Identify Children of Holocaust
WASHINGTON (AP).- The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is trying to identify more than 1,000 children in photos that date from when they were scattered across Europe at the end of World War II and taken in by relief agencies. The museum’s “Remember Me”…
Tour Reveals Layers of Shanghai’s Jewish History
SHANGHAI (AP).- Not far from the Bund district in Shanghai, with its hordes of tourists and view of the city’s famous skyscrapers across the Huangpu River, is a quiet neighborhood called Hongkou. Walk here along Zhoushan Road and you’ll stumble on a si…
Modern Art Masters from the Smithsonian Opens at Cheekwood Art & Gardens
NASHVILLE, TN.- Modern Masters examines the complex and varied nature of American abstract art in the mid-20th century through three broadly conceived themes that span two decades of creative genius – “Significant Gestures,” “Optics…
1944 Letter Finally Headed to Intended Recipient
MONTGOMERY, AL (AP).- A World War II-era letter mailed to a soldier’s sister at a Red Cross hospital is finally headed for its intended recipient. The letter was postmarked from Montgomery on Aug. 9, 1944, and addressed to a Miss R.T. Fletcher at an A…