The vision of modernity at CES creates excitement -- and bewilderment. But the new has always been disturbing, as shown in LACMA's New Objectivity: Modern German Art In The Weimar Republic, 1919–1933, ...

“Nothing is more exotic than what surrounds us, nothing is more imaginative than objectivity,” said the Austrian-Czech writer Egon Erwin Kisch in 1925. Kisch is among the dozens of writers, painters, ...

“New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933,” opened Sunday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It’s a tough show. Tough as nails. You will clench your jaw as the 14 ...

As you enter the first room of the Ubu Gallery, a large oil painting of a naked man listening to radio-headphones dominates the stage in a powerful painting by Kurt Weinhold. It is the opening image ...

German artists and intellectuals in the 1920s interpreted their new reality, shaped by the traumatic military defeat in the First World War and the political and economic turmoil of the early Weimar ...

Dozens of German artists captured the drama of that period in a chilly realist style dubbed "Neue Sachlichkeit." That is the topic of a challenging and worthwhile exhibition at LA County Museum of Art ...