In 1945, while recovering from an ankle injury he got while skiing in Bavaria, Doctor Maertens discovered that a new use for ...

From Looney Toons characters to shark teeth to pinup models, nose art on aircraft has a storied history in air forces around ...

This state of mind is called acquired situational narcissism, a term coined by Dr. Robert Millman, a prominent psychiatrist.

E rnest Hemingway’s World War I novel, “A Farewell to Arms” (1929), is an exception among products of early 20th-century ...

When King Harald V was born in 1937 at the royal estate of Skaugum, he became the first prince born in Norway in 567 years.

The militant Palestinian organization Hamas said that it had now handed over the body of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas, who was ...

It was an appalling image: the coffins of four Israeli hostages, two of them young children, presented on stage in front of a ...

But of course, against such an exorbitant goal, his art was bound to fail. The romanticist movement was always caught, as Joseph Leo Koerner wrote in his indispensable 1990 book on Friedrich, “between ...

Over the years the red yellow and blue supersuit has gained an unlikely fashion following, beloved by everyone from Jeremy ...

In 1969, a 24-year-old art student called Anselm Kiefer decided to confront "the amnesia of West Germany's postwar identity" ...

Christie’s, which values the work at more than $1 million, said the proceeds from any sale would be shared with the heirs of an art collector killed in a concentration camp.

Christie's will offer a $1.9 million Egon Schiele drawing that was seized from Austrian cabaret performer Fritz Grünbaum by ...