The first London test of the new auction season was held this week at Sotheby's. In one evening session, 35 works of art, mostly German paintings and watercolors from the first half of the 20th ...

Vincent van Gogh, “Pollard Willows at Sunset” (1888) oil on canvas on cardboard, 31.6 cm x 34.3 cm (© Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands; all photos courtesy the Städel Museum, unless ...

On Jan. 25, at Avery Fisher Hall in New York, the American Symphony Orchestra will perform an unusual program of works from composers of the former East Germany. With a program featuring composers ...

War and revolution often spur in artists visions of radical change. That's what happened in early 20th-century Europe when the Great War and Russian Revolution uprooted life for millions. From the ...

BERLIN — For decades, the Volksbühne theater, in the former East Berlin, has been at the heart of political theater in Europe. Its bold productions, often involving nudity, women in men’s roles and ...

Karlheinz Stockhausen, the great German composer who envisioned music as a force of cosmic revolution and who himself became a musical force of nature, having an unprecedented impact on both high and ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German choreographer Pina Bausch, whose work is credited with revolutionizing the language of modern dance, died on Tuesday after being diagnosed with cancer only days earlier. She ...

BERLIN – German composer Hans Werner Henze, whose prolific and wide-ranging work included a wealth of operas and 10 symphonies, died Saturday, his publisher said. He was 86. Henze died in the eastern ...

When news broke that German avant-garde composer Mauricio Kagel had died, I decided to revisit the 76-year-old's canon in memoriam. And a vast one it is too: apart from his mammoth catalogue of ...

BASEL, Switzerland — Herbert Wernicke, a German avant-garde opera designer whose productions appeared in major theaters across Europe, has died. He was 56. Wernicke died Tuesday in Basel, where he was ...

Annie Arnoult Beserra, head of Striding Lion Performance Group, fell in love with Valeska Gert in 2005, when, as a grad school student, she saw recently released archival footage of Gert’s dance solos ...