Jean Strouse’s new book shines a light on John Singer Sargent’s most important but largely forgotten Jewish patrons, the Wertheimers
The uniqueness of David Salle’s genius has never seemed more grounded in reality
The painting that paid for ‘The King of the Jews’
Flesh, set free by a ‘despicable genius,’ or ensnared in the male gaze?
The painter Nirit Takele, already a celebrated artist at 33 years old, is evoking the spirit of both her homelands in her bold work
Old conflicts in the air and on display at the Jewish Museum
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
‘Seeing psychologically’ the philanthropic American collector couple who put Los Angeles on the art map
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
How the American master came to this living portrait, true to life—but what life?
Yoram Raanan lost 2,000 works of art when his Beit Meir studio went up in flames. But he’s ‘looking at the positive’—and the Talmud—for peace of mind.
To promote next year’s biennale, local artists have taken to the balconies of a Jerusalem apartment complex to capture the city’s landscape
Chagall’s only daughter Ida—an influential subject of his paintings—died 22 years ago this week. She would have been 100.
The Brooklyn-based artist and recent contestant on television’s ‘Skin Wars’ has loved art since she was a Yeshiva student on Long Island
The painter’s ‘intuitive’ and ‘groping’ New York show, ‘Stuff Change,’ deftly intertwines abstraction with the graphic representation of lively messes
Peter Ruta, who turns 98 this month, is still painting and still not getting his due
