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A few weeks ago I participated in a conference at Arte BA, the Buenos Aires art fair. The subject was “the impact of Latin American art in the media,” with individual panels devoted to the mass media,...
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View Gallery Hyman Bloom, c. 1955Photo: Nick Dean; courtesy of the Danforth Museum of Art. Monumental paintings adorn every wall of Hyman Bloom’s house in Nashua, New Hampshire—a fluorescent rabbi at...
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Click here for links to hundreds of Marc Chagall works on the web >> To some, he is the most famous of the Jewish artists. To others, he is the most Jewish of famous ones. Modernists celebrate...
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An exhibit on Rembrandt, Jesus, and Jews
Like so many other aspects of his life and work, Rembrandt’s connection to the Jews has been sentimentalized, overestimated, misappropriated, criticized, dissected—and debunked. In recent years, the...
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Highlights From Sotheby's Annual Sale of Judaica and Israeli Art
Have you ever wondered what’s in Alan Dershowitz’s private art collection? Or wanted to leaf through the most exquisite 18th-century illuminated Haggadah in the world? Perhaps you yearn for a spice box...
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Israeli Art Dealer Itzhak Zarug Arrested As Suspected Ringleader of...
This weekend’s Haaretz magazine featured a riveting cover story (Hebrew only) about a suspected Israeli-led international multimillion-dollar art forgery ring. The case was published in brief by...
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A New Generation of Hasidic Artists on Display at Brooklyn Pop-Up Art Exhibit
Sometimes contemporary Jewish art surprises you. The images displayed in this artistic genre can often seem so synthetic: the modestly-clad woman, the Torah scrolls and their scholars—the messages of...
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Forgotten Temple Mural Found in Vermont Carpet Store
In 1910, Lithuanian artist Ben Zion Black painted an extravagant floor-to-ceiling mural in the Chai Adam synagogue in Burlington, Vermont. The building was eventually converted into apartment units and...
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Cynthia Ozick Introduces Artist Mark Podwal's New Collected Works
Mark Podwal is one of those startling souls—they are very few—who can imagine, through the power of a unifying eye, connections so new that they shake the brain into fresh juxtapositions of...
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