Visiting the Memorial de Caen museum in Normandy, France, in 1996, Daniel Weiss was captivated by eight photographs showing the public hanging of three partisans in Minsk, Belarus, on Oct. 26, 1941. The two male victims’ identities were known, but the female was anonymous, and Weiss set out to learn who she was. By the…
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about what we know and how we know it, or, to put a fancy name to it, the processes by which academic disciplines are constituted and knowledge is organized. The more I mull, the more it seems to me that serendipity, curiosity and passion are key components of that…
Recent studies show that only 30% of artists represented by galleries are female. This statistic is troubling, given that women comprise 80% of BFA graduates, and 60% of MFA graduates. In this series, The Sisterhood aims to shed light on this staggering gender skew in the art world. We will be interviewing different female artists,…
The heirs of a French Jewish art dealer killed in a Nazi concentration camp will get a piece of the upcoming sale at Christie’s of a Monet painting looted by the Nazis and acquired after the war by a Swiss collector. The painting, “Haystacks at Giverny,” was painted by Claude Monet in 1885 and is…
Jewish leaders in Florida’s Brevard County said they have removed their support from a children’s Holocaust art exhibit over its sponsorship by a controversial church. Sixteen community leaders signed an open letter saying that they were pulling their backing for the Children’s Holocaust Museum exhibit set to open later this month at the Space Coast…
Experts have determined that a painting by Camille Pissarro from the cache of reclusive German art collector Cornelius Gurlitt was stolen by Nazis from its rightful owner, according to German officials. German Culture Minister Monika Gruetters declared in a statement that her ministry was already in touch with an heiress of the original owner and…
(Reuters) — A Palestinian man was lamenting his misfortune on Wednesday after selling his bombed-out doorway to a local artist without realizing that the image painted on it was by Banksy and could be worth a small fortune. Rabea Darduna, a father of six from northern Gaza, said he sold the iron-and-brick doorway of his…
The first things I noticed when standing in front of Nicole Eisenman’s “Seder,” a painting commissioned by the Jewish Museum in 2010 depicting a family Passover gathering, were the hands. Garishly pink and fleshy, they rise from the lower edge of the canvas. They’re cartoonish, really, like something out of the work of Philip Guston,…
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