Painting

Congress removes deadline for Holocaust-looted art claims, opening door to more restitution

The controversial "sunset clause" of a 2016 law led watchdogs to believe that those owning looted works were purposefully obscuring them from public view until the deadline had passed.

A judge ruled in 2026 that Amedeo Modigliani's "Seated Man with a Cane," shown here in part, must be returned to the family of the man who owned it before the Holocaust.
Seated Man With a Cane by Amadeo Modigliani

Modigliani painting looted, resold by Nazis returned to estate of rightful Jewish owner

Tsuki Garbian’s art: ‘SPANGA HOME,’ 2025.

Tsuki Garbian's exhibition 'A Very Still Life' deconstructs and reconstructs art on canvas

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Three artists, three questions: 3-D imagination - sculptures


Most people cannot figure this out: How many people are in this picture?

The following brainteaser was recently published on TikTok and challenged web surfers to find out how many people are in the image. Few succeeded.

 How many people are there in this picture?

Unusual compound found in Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ - study

As part of the 2019 Operation Night Watch, an international research team joined forces to study how the painting materials react chemically and with time.

 The Night Watch, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642

Israeli artist creates massive mural to celebrate 700 years of Vilnius


Israeli artist depicts Serbian women who changed their country


Lost Jewish renaissance painter favored by the Medici discovered

The life and career of Jona Ostiglio also shed light on the relations between faith communities in 17th-century Florence.

Tapestry "Christ's charge to Peter" designed by Renaissance artist Raphael is on display on a lower wall of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican

Art Roundup: Remembering Breitberg-Semel & ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’ 

Art Roundup intends to offer readers a monthly glance at some of the finest art exhibitions currently being shown across the country.

 End of the line butcher shop.

Jewish philanthropist brings ‘healing’ murals to hospitals and clinics

The Community Mural Project carried on a hospital system tradition to create works for government buildings.

FOR NEW YORK City, the financial capital of the world, cyberattacks have always posed a major threat.

Soup thrown at Van Gogh painting in Rome climate change protest

The stunt directed at "The Sower" was carried out by four women from the group Ultima Generazione (Last Generation) who shouted slogans against global warming and fossil fuels.

 Activists of ''Ultima Generazione (Last Generation)" glue their hands to the wall after throwing soup at a van Gogh's painting "The Sower" at Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome

 Israeli and Thai artists collaborate to host painting workshop in Bangkok

“Maya x Nui: A Painting Workshop by Israeli and Thai Artists" took place last November in Bangkok, sponsored by the embassy of Israel in Thailand in cooperation with Soul Salt River City.

  “Maya x Nui: A Painting Workshop by Israeli and Thai Artists

Jewish cabaret artist’s paintings, stolen by Nazis, to be auctioned

Grünbaum was said to be the inspiration for a character in the 1972 film “Cabaret” and was also a real-life collector of the works of Schiele, an Austrian expressionist artist.

Fritz Grünbaum was an Austrian Jewish cabaret performer and art collector.