Painting
Spanish police recover two priceless 17th-century paintings missing for nearly a century
The paintings, titled “Samson Taking the Honeycomb from the Lion's Mouth” and “David Receiving the Loaves of the Presence from Achimelech” had originally been part the church’s center altarpiece.
For restoration of Vienna’s historic synagogue: Gottfried Helnwein to auction painting
Revealing the invisible: Jewish artists bring Mount Sinai to life
London venue cancels ‘grotesque’ antisemitic art exhibition following UKLFI complaint
From canvas to country: Israeli artists turn landscape into ideology and memory
The landscape of the Land of Israel has never been neutral. Shaped by longing, ideology, and memory as much as by sight, artists have repeatedly turned the land into an idea.
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.
Modigliani painting looted, resold by Nazis returned to estate of rightful Jewish owner
The estate of Oscar Stettiner, a British-born Jewish art dealer in Paris, has been engaged in a lengthy legal battle to retrieve Seated Man With a Cane by Amadeo Modigliani.
Tsuki Garbian's exhibition 'A Very Still Life' deconstructs and reconstructs art on canvas
In his new solo exhibition, Garbian traces the delicate tension between the enduring lessons of the Old Masters and the urgency of the present
Three artists, three questions: 3-D imagination - sculptures
I was curious about what new contemporary Israeli artists bring to the language of sculpture.
A Monet walk through Paris: Seeing the city as the artist did
Monet is still gently celebrated across France each autumn through museum tributes, Impressionist displays, and a renewed reverence for the light and landscapes that shaped his art.
Self-portrait of Frida Kahlo sells for more than $54 million, setting new record for female artists
Featuring Kahlo asleep in her bed, the piece, painted in 1940, surpassed the painting price of the previous record holder, Georgia O’Keeffe, whose painting sold for $44.4 million in 2014.
Missing Picasso painting found in Madrid weeks after vanishing
The small framed "Still Life with Guitar" was part of a larger shipment of artworks moved from Madrid to Granada.
Avraham Vofsi: An aliyah journey painted on canvas
Vofsi is currently planning a landscape project with Aboriginal communities, informed by his deepened understanding of what it means to belong to a land as a Jew in Israel.
Art and Torah: How can we dance out the darkness in our lives?
We danced out of Egypt toward revelation at Mount Sinai, out of Haman’s decree toward the rebuilding of the Second Temple, out of gas chambers to the State of Israel.
