Art
Artist, Holocaust survivor, and Jewish hero.
Edwin Salomon.
Samuel van Hoogstraten’s Old Man at a Window.
A visit to the Rothschilds’ home in Waddesdon.
A fabricated life.
For centuries, visual artists, nearly all Christian, turned to the Hebrew Bible for inspiration even more often than the New Testament. What did they find there, and did they treat it well?
From the Ashes, a Fire Shall Be Woken.
Kaddish for a friend of the Jews.
Politics, aesthetics, and tradition.
The Sassoons.
The joy of summer, the hardships of poverty, or the paradoxes of homecoming?
Centuries have passed, yet the puzzle of the Holy City remains the same.
Hilton Kramer believed art must be moral—but not political.
“What would have become of us,” asked Picasso,“if Kahnweiler had not had a business sense?”