John J. Heartfield is the grandson of the left-wing German artist and master of the political photo montage, John Heartfield [born Helmut Herzfeld, 1891-1968], whose work we recently wrote about on ...

John J Heartfield is the artist John Heartfield’s paternal grandson. He gives live interactive presentations around the world that focus on his grandfather’s life and work and modern political art.

2 Russians, 2 Jews, and a Puerto Rican walk into a bar ...

Numerous museums forced to close by the COVID-19 pandemic have placed current or past exhibitions online, thereby providing the public access to them. The Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste—ADK) in ...

A documentary which looks at Heartfield primarily as a political activist working in a specific historical context. It demonstrates this relationship by the use of documentary material, such as ...

Celebrating a movement of creatives who set out to reinvent their role in society, calling themselves 'engineers' rather than artists, MoMA's new exhibition shows off recently acquired works from the ...

The name might be unfamiliar, but you will most likely recognise John Heartfield's pioneering use of photomontage when you thumb through this meticulously researched volume. Born Helmut Herzfeld, ...

PETER MASON is beguiled by a fascinating account of the importance of cricket to immigrants from the Caribbean to the UK RECENTLY unearthed in their original crumbling box in the archives of the ...

Graphic designer Stefanie is having a creative crisis with boring advertising assignments and a boss who does not value her work. During a visit to a museum, she is magically attracted to the ...

In the days leading up to the 13th Berlin Biennale, I heard two things about it: that everyone knows it’s “cursed” and that no one ever remembers it’s happening.