As Caspar David Friedrich’s 250th anniversary is celebrated in Berlin and New York, JENNY FARRELL urges viewers of the German Romantic painter to understand its true historical context, and beware its co-option by the far-right

As Caspar David Friedrich’s 250th anniversary is celebrated in Berlin and New York, JENNY FARRELL urges viewers of the German Romantic painter to understand its true historical context, and beware his co-option by the far right

JENNY FARRELL traces the critical role that the CPUSA played in the education of Harlem’s greatest man of letters

JENNY FARRELL introduces an extraordinary book that maintains the cultural practise of the GDR by writing about ordinary working lives

JENNY FARRELL celebrates the continuing relevance of the first English-speaking playwright of proletarian origin to create world theatre

JENNY FARRELL pays tribute to the German-born star of the big screen who spoke out against her fascist homeland

JENNY FARRELL examines the detailed symbolism within Picasso's iconic anti-war and anti-fascist painting

On the 570th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s birth, JENNY FARRELL takes a look at the techniques that made the great Renaissance painter and scientist’s work so significant

As a revolutionary, politician, diplomat and leading theoretician of Russian Marxism, she remains one of the towering greats of the 1917 generation, leading the charge on the emancipation of women, writes JENNY FARRELL