Frances Brent

A Louise Bourgeois show at the Jewish Museum and a new biography of Lucian Freud may provide the answer

How the midcentury modernism of J.D. Salinger and George Segal reflected an American Jewish generation

And finding him—in Vilnius

The enigmatic, influential benefactor of the arts comes home to the temple of modernism he once shunned

European and American modernism woven into the warp and weft of grief

Was Frida Kahlo Jewish, and does it matter? A blockbuster show at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum brings the Mexican artist’s contradictions to life.

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

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

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

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

A superb exhibit of works by the French designer and architect shows the promise and peril of 20th-century Modernism

Or, how a nice Jewish girl got her nose broken by her bad boyfriend

Polish artist Monika Weiss’ ‘post-memory’ project in Zielona Góra asks who owns past Jewish suffering

By looking broadly at early Soviet photography and film in ‘The Power of Pictures,’ a new exhibit turns away from Soviet Jews and their specific struggle to avoid being lost to history

For a century, it’s been a camp for (mostly) Jewish girls—but not a Jewish camp