How Marc Chagall mastered color and made Jewish painting kosher
A New Orleans exhibit examines Chagall's popularity and influence
Marc Chagall
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Art She was an outsider, a Jew and an iconoclastic artist — kind of like Picasso
A new exhibit in Paris explores the friendship between Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso
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Art How a ‘wise man of the shtetl’ evaded Soviet repression and antisemitism to achieve international fame as an artist
For a time, Ilya Kabakov was the only artist from the Soviet Union to have a successful career in the West as well as within the USSR
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Yiddish World The art teacher who inspired Marc Chagall to paint Jewish men and women
Yehuda Pen showed his students that a specifically Jewish “fine” art was both possible and desirable.
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Art How this portrait of Marc Chagall’s father finally wound up where it belonged
The 1911 painting was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939
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Culture Beloved Marc Chagall painting, stolen in the ’90s, resurfaces at Israeli auction
TEL AVIV (JTA) — “Where’s the Chagall?” asked a visitor to this city’s Gordon Gallery on a January morning in 1996, hoping to glimpse one of the prize lots being auctioned days later by the gallery. The small Marc Chagall painting, titled “Jacob’s Ladder,” was prominently on display; a gallery employee walked the prospective buyer…
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Culture Rediscovering Marc Chagall’s least-known American windows
The famed Jewish artist was spirited out of Vichy France during WWII. Here's how he came to design church windows for the Rockefellers
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Culture Chagall’s ‘The Lovers’ Covered At The Met In Recognition Of Refugees
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is making a bold statement with one of its boldest holdings. “The Lovers” by Marc Chagall is covered this week in recognition of World Refugee Day on June 20, Artnet reported. The move is part of a partnership between the Met and the International Rescue Committee to draw attention to…
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