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The National WWII Museum Hosting Special Exhibit Highlighting Nazi Campaign against Modern Art

The National WWII Museum in New Orleans has opened a special exhibit titled 'Degenerate! Hitler’s War on Modern Art,' on loan from the Jewish Museum Milwaukee and running through May 10, 2026. The exhibit features over 65 works by artists deemed 'degenerate' by the Nazi regime, including Wassily Kandinsky, Max Beckmann, Pablo Picasso, and Marc Chagall, alongside documents and artifacts that explore how modernist art was suppressed and weaponized as propaganda. The museum has expanded the original exhibit to include a focus on suppressed music, featuring instruments from the era, such as a tenor saxophone played by Eddie Powers and a clarinet played by George Lewis, on loan from the New Orleans Jazz Museum.

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History, art exhibition honors wartime work of Fort Wayne native Bill Blass and Ghost Army

The Journal Gazette reports on a history and art exhibition in Fort Wayne that honors the wartime work of native son Bill Blass and the Ghost Army. Bill Blass, who would later become a renowned fashion designer, served in the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, a top-secret U.S. Army unit known as the Ghost Army, during World War II. The exhibition highlights the unit's deceptive tactics—using inflatable tanks, sound effects, and fake radio transmissions—to mislead German forces, and features artifacts, photographs, and artworks related to their missions.