The exhibition, “Degenerate Art: Modern Art on Trial Under the Nazis,” is at this museum until May 25. It’s in Paris’ Marais district, once the center of the city’s Jewish life.

The exhibition, “Degenerate Art: Modern Art on Trial Under the Nazis,” is at this museum until May 25. It’s in Paris’ Marais district, once the center of the city’s Jewish life.

The original exhibition, comprising “degenerate” (entartete) works mainly by German artists that had been confiscated and sequestered from German museums and collectors, was intended to provoke the ...

In 1937, two Nazi art shows aimed to teach the public to despise modernist art and show them what art should be. An exhibit at New York's Neue Galerie reunites works from both landmark shows.