Art

Orthodox Jewish Art Is Experiencing a Renaissance

“Artists are more connected to God.”

Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt
Oct. 15 2021 12:01AM

In a New Exhibit, the Jewish Museum Avoids the Word Jew

Louise Bourgeois, artist without context.

Menachem Wecker
Sept. 1 2021 12:01AM

Franz Kafka’s Lost Drawings

Made public for the first time.

National Library of Israel
June 1 2021 12:01AM

One of the Earliest Uses of Symbols by Humans Discovered in Israel

With a “spiritual” meaning.

Times of Israel
Feb. 11 2021 12:01AM

The Surprising Rediscovery of a Prewar Jewish Artist’s Collected Works

Gertrud Kauders.

Amos Chapple and Dana Vaskova
Oct. 8 2020 12:01AM

Photographs of Death Camp Inmates Shouldn’t Be Called “Poignant”

The Met’s Birkenau blunder.

Lee Rosenbaum
Sept. 22 2020 12:01AM

The Missing Miracles of Marc Klionsky

Born in the Soviet Union, the painter took on everything and everybody from Dizzy Gillespie to New York street life to the Holocaust. When will he get his full due?

Menachem Wecker
May 19 2020 12:01AM

The Art and Diplomacy of the German-Jewish Elite of a Century Ago

James Simon and Paul Nathan.

Abigail Green
Jan. 8 2020 12:01AM

A Painting Looted by the Nazis Returns to Its Rightful Inheritors

A Scholar Sharpening His Quill.

Fang Block
April 5 2019 12:01AM

The Jewish Salonnières of Vienna

From the 1780s to World War II.

Marina Gerner
Nov. 9 2018 12:01AM

An Anti-Semitic Exhibit by the World’s Most Celebrated Graffiti Artist

Banksy in Bethlehem.

David Collier
May 11 2018 12:01AM

How Some 1,500 Works of Looted Art Were Hidden in a German Apartment for Over a Half-Century

Having a Jewish grandmother didn’t stop Hildebrand Gurlitt from becoming the Nazis’ favorite art dealer.

Sophie Gilbert
March 13 2018 12:01AM

The Tabernacle as a Biblical Lesson in Artistic Creativity

God’s spirit and God’s image.

Ranana Dine
March 7 2018 12:01AM

An Ancient Lioness Carving, in Pristine Condition, Uncovered in the Galilee

Jewish, Christian, or pagan?

Ruth Schuster
Nov. 28 2017 12:01AM
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