BERLIN — In January 1933, the Nazis celebrated their first General Election victory with an elaborate parade down the streets of Berlin. After watching them march triumphantly through the Brandenburg Gate, the famous painter and printmaker Max Liebermann was said to have proclaimed, 'I want to throw up.'

Over at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, different kinds of sound - gospel music and speech - inform the American artist Adam Pendleton's exhibition Becoming Imperceptible. The voice of David Hilliard, the former founding chief of staff of the Black Panther Party, emanates from a three-screen film installation Pendleton created as a...

An exhibition of early 20th-century Russian art due to open at the Royal Academy of Arts in London next year ( Revolution: Russian Art 1917-32, 11 February-17 April 2017) will include more than 30 paintings and abstract plaster blocks, or architectons, by the Modernist pioneer, Kazimir Malevich. All of the works were first seen together in a...

Inside the rotunda of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, a circular walkway spirals down from the street level, like an underground version of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum in New York. A series of galleries branches out from there, giving up astonishing secrets from one of the finest—if forgotten—collections of 20th century art in...