The demolition of the Berlin Wall had immediate effects on German life. But how did it affect artists?
By far the most comprehensive artistic testimony were paintings in what immediately became known as the East Side Gallery
Throughout the Cold War Berlin’s museums quietly kept in touch—when the Wall came down, they embraced
This archive article, taken from our feature looking back at the fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years later, shows how German culture remained linked when politics broke down
How Rheims Cathedral's destruction in the First World War had a happy ending
New book explores how the burnt cathedral created a 'profound intellectual rift' between Germany and France, then reconciliation
A monumental study of the heyday of Historicist painting
This comprehensive volume looks at a genre popular in 19th-century Europe but long scorned in the art world
Many pictures but no big picture: book struggles to capture the extraordinary life of Harald Szeemann
Volume on pioneering curator takes an admiring, rather than a critically analytical, approach
How Uffizi 'super-director' Eike Schmidt transformed Florence's tourist magnet
The museum's first foreign leader is halfway through his tenure and heading to Vienna in 2019
The very first Monuments Man
Alexandre Lenoir, the founder of the Musée des Monuments Français
Short, sharp—and funny: Bernhard Schulz on Adolph Menzel
To mark the 200th anniversary of his birth, a book celebrates Adolph Menzel as the “painter of modern life”
Hilla Becher, a photographer who stripped personal style from images of Industrial Age machine structures
Is it possible to imagine a blast furnace or a gas holder any other way than as the Bechers saw it—set against a blank and cloudless light-grey sky?
Lost libraries and broken Buddhas: war, iconoclasm and social media
The history of cultural destruction as a propaganda tool
It's complicated: Tate on Kazimir Malevich and the West
As a touring show opens at Tate Modern, is a rounded picture finally emerging?
National Portrait Gallery joins a season of shows marking the centenary of the Great War
Our pick of the exhibitions commemorating the First World War
The scholarly battle over Beuys
Let’s admit it: without the artist to explain and animate his work, much of it is incomprehensible
Books: The saviour of the Warburg Institute
Alongside Warburg, there was no room for Fritz Saxl to be anything other than his most faithful assistant
Books: How Warburg helped to invent the exhibition—and the curator
The art historian’s collected writings include an illuminating essay drawn from his dazzling, lengthy lectures
From the archive | Caspar David Friedrich brought into focus in the first reliable catalogue raisonée of his drawings
The catalogue promises to be definitive and demonstrates why Friedrich was one of the most significant draughtsmen of his era
Berlin’s museums are still suffering from the effects of World War II and forty years of Communism
British architect David Chipperfield has pacified both conservatives and progressives with his masterplan for the Museum Island which links the museums by underground tunnels