A mother’s carefully curated closet becomes the subject of a family memoir by Maira and Alex Kalman
‘Seeing psychologically’ the philanthropic American collector couple who put Los Angeles on the art map
On our sister site, super serious journalism about Irving Penn at the Met, and interviews with two female Jewish directors
The Met’s new exhibit reimagines the holy city as a pleasant pile of objects, conveniently free of people and their delusions
Next year, the Met Gala should try on a new theme: ‘Shmatta: The Lower East Side Remembers’
The museum miraculously puts a broken god back together again
The Met’s dazzling retrospective declares: ‘It’s all a matter of how much freedom you can stand.’
The prize piece in the Steinhardt Judaica collection doesn’t go to auction
Gertrude Stein’s ties to Nazis, revisited at the museum, shouldn’t eclipse her nurturing of young artists
Three rare medieval Hebrew Bibles on display at the Metropolitan Museum in New York reveal the affinity between Sephardic and Islamic texts
September exhibit in Russia without art as Chabad dispute intensifies
Long relegated to either Jewish institutions or self-contained collections, Judaica is finding a new home in mainstream museums of art
A critical edition of The Washington Haggadah, a 1478 manuscript housed at the Library of Congress, shows how much—and how little—Passover has changed since the 15th century
In this week’s “Tell Me,” Tablet Magazine’s illustrated question-and-answer column, we revisit the Four Questions—and watch as New York wakes up from its wintery slumber
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