Chaim Soutine

When Bilha first met artist Moshe Castel in 1948, she and her future husband didn’t exactly hit it off. Yes, they danced and yes, he asked her out on…

People may think of documentary films as dour and depressing, but this year's lineup at DocAviv, the international documentary film festival in Tel…

Extract from an article in Issue 4, June 10, 2008 of The Jerusalem Report. To subscribe to The Jerusalem Report click here. A Rembrandt photographic…

The Israel Museum is desperate to convince all and sundry that it is still open for art business, despite the renovations that have closed the…

As you enter the new exhibition at Ticho House a piece of video art greets you. It's of a young girl, unnervingly still, turning in place as if on an…

FOREIGN MINISTER Tzipi Livni will deliver the keynote address this coming Sunday, November 18, on the 30th anniversary of the launching of the…

Dressed in their World War One uniforms, Australians re-enacting the charge by the Australian Light Horse Regiment in the triumphant Battle of…

"I've got Jew on the brain," declared the American Jewish painter R.B. Kitaj. "Jews are my Tahiti, my Giverny, my Dada, my Lost Horizon. The Jewish…

A very painterly show of early gouaches and watercolors by Bulgarian-born Avraham Ofek (1935-90) now at the Israel Museum is a pleasant reminder of…

There are few paintings in the Bruce and Ruth Rappaport Collection, currently on view at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (TAMA), which are at the cutting…

Christie's record breaking week of Impressionist and Modern Art and Post-War and Contemporary Art auctions in London realized GBP199,822,480, a…

Christie's record-breaking Impressionist & Modern Art sale in New York in November was an impossibly hard act to follow. Its London Evening Sale of…

Before her death in 1996, I would sit with the painter Nora Frenkel and several friends in her small but beautifully tended garden discussing the…

It's a family affair. Artist Dan Kedar's sculpture features Pinocchio astride a horse, son Yuval's horse is a tribute to the great 17th century…

Christie's annual sale of 19th- and 20th-century art in Tel Aviv raised a fine $3.3m. last weekend. Timepecker, one of the best oils ever by the late…

Seasons come and go. Rain falls, the sun shines and clouds continually alter the chromatic reflections enveloping the landscape. One would expect…

No kidding, it is death that brings life to the art market. The heirs of great collectors cannot cut up a canvas between them but they can divvy up…

It isn't easy to get to the art galleries of Yad Vashem. There's a long walk from the parking lot, which is always full. Best is to come by taxi. But…

The auctioneers are over the moon. Christie's London sales of Impressionist, Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art totaled a stunning GBP128m.…

Kaiser Wilhelm once made a disastrous attempt to interfere with the course of art in Germany and brought such a storm around his crowned head that he…