The very private non-Holocaust-related life of Anne Frank: teenage manga girl, tampon-marketer, European traveler, and emblem of the twin evils of war and intolerance—and the Japanese ‘culture of apology’

A dispatch from David Levinthal’s doll-house diorama factory, where the photographer plays with the line between real and pretend

How my great-grandmother, a Polish immigrant to Mexico, became a champion of artists like Mathias Goeritz, Sebastián, and José Luis Cuevas

The superb show of 32 paintings, opening this week, highlights the painter’s fascination with the dreadful spectacle of death, and the splendor of his artistry

May Day: Portraits of the Jewish soldiers who fought in World War II under the flag of Communism

National Poetry Month: A poetical Bay Area exhibit brings together California Jewish artists who make wonky machines, ‘anxious objects,’ and other kinetic commentaries on the ‘labor-saving devices’ of our current entanglement

A pair of exhibits, one at Harvard Art Museums, the other at New York’s Neue Galerie, try to read the signs of a coming conflagration and its attendant guilt in works made under the rise and fall of National Socialism

In the gap between transcendental and concrete experience, 48 years after the painter’s death

Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s ‘Young Girl Reading:’ mindful and contemplative, perhaps even a proto-feminist?

The cruelties and achievements of the painter’s short but intense Bohemian life, on view at the Jewish Museum in New York and Tate Modern in London

Paintings that tell us to eff off while showing us the way in

The painter learns to ‘live Dada’

Before his death, a visit to his studio in Woodstock, New York, where the Czech emigrant and underappreciated artist of the Holocaust found peace

The Los Angeles photographer gives, and gives in

Thomas Feiger rebuilds what was lost in the Austrian capital

Torah scribe, New Deal propagandist, unrelenting anti-Nazi: the many lives of ferocious cartoonist and illustrator Arthur Szyk at a jewel of a show at the New-York Historical Society

An off-track exhibit at the Accademia puts the New York School painter in the company of Titian, Tintoretto, and, weirdly, the Italian Nobel prize-winning poet Eugenio Montale

A recent joint exhibit at the Vatican Museum and the Jewish Museum of Rome traced the surprising and enduring significance of the seven-branched golden object that entered ‘the temporal web of the history of humankind’

How the Vatican warmed to Jews over the last century

The Jewish Museum’s current show gives viewers a second chance to ‘see her light,’ and to see the socialite and troubled daughter behind the art

How the American master came to this living portrait, true to life—but what life?

The founder of Paper magazine takes a junket to the Holyland, where designers are trying to reconcile the competing demands of play and pray

At 82, the Mexican artist isn’t done collecting junk in his irrational house

What’s the right way to remember both victims and perpetrators of great crimes?

A new survey brings to light the late-19th and early 20th-century history of vicious American anti-Semitic caricature

The 96-year-old doyenne of the jewel-encrusted clutch gets a glittering new show at New York’s Museum of Art and Design