The museum’s latest core exhibition reveals a distance from Judaism indistinguishable from disregard, embarrassment, and disdain.
From its priceless collection of artworks, a foremost cultural institution has harvested mainly inferior examples for display, while submerging Jewish identity in a sea of “universal values.”
Critics accuse it of threatening the separation of church and state; in truth, Washington’s new museum makes an invaluable contribution to American (and Jewish) cultural literacy.
From Islamic manuscripts to Quaker bonnets to Torah scrolls.
Affirmative-action curation.
Adrift on a flood of speculation.
From Berlin then to Oberlin now.
“The parties to the conflict . . . will not be swayed by the language of artists.”
A museum exhibit returns.
The story of an Ottoman Jewish family in Paris.
New York’s Museum of Biblical Art is closing, because it’s “too religious.”
What use is “a secular perspective on the Bible’s pivotal role in art history”?
A major exhibit on age-old Jewish ties to Israel, canceled in January because of Arab pressure, has now finally opened in Paris.