Editor’s Note: Joanna Bourke is a professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London, and the editor of “War and Art: A Visual History of Modern Conflict.” The following is an edited ...

The New Orleans Public Library celebrates Black History Month with its annual art contest, recommended reads, video celebrations and more. Art contest: Orleans Parish students in grades K-12 are ...

Weaver Hawkins’ painting Atomic Power (1947), at the Art Gallery of NSW, is used to convey a purely negative message about “the weaponisation of science”.