Was Morris Hirshfield’s Jewishness responsible for his fall from grace in the art world?
A new retrospective on the surrealist artist grapples with his obscurity after a dazzling debut embraced by Picasso, Duchamp and Peggy Guggenheim
A new retrospective on the surrealist artist grapples with his obscurity after a dazzling debut embraced by Picasso, Duchamp and Peggy Guggenheim
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In all the author’s art history graduate courses, the word ‘Jewish’ was never mentioned
The art of 24-year-old Ayeola Omolara Kaplan confronts racism, antisemitism and misogyny
The Cassirers have been fighting for years to reclaim the plundered painting, now hanging in a Spanish museum.
The improbable hybrid of a tallit, a Jewish prayer shawl, and a sajjada, a Muslim prayer rug. A family recipe for an Iraqi date pastry that evokes layers of Arab-Jewish identity. Glazed stoneware for trans Jews to use in ritual practice. A film of screen recordings and Zoom exchanges about disability and displacement. These works,…
A museum near Tel Aviv, which first opened nearly 35 years ago, has ceased operations after failing to reach an agreement with 47 artists who accused the museum — and the city — of censorship, and demanded that their work be removed. The artists had asked The Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art to reverse…
Akiva Shtisel, the protagonist of the eponymous series, is a genius artist, and his gorgeous paintings lie at the heart of the show about Haredi life. In the most recent season, his paintings of his deceased wife hold much of the emotional weight of the show, symbolizing Akiva’s grief and his struggle to develop a…
דאָס װעט זײַן אַ װיכטיקער רעסורס פֿאַר פֿאָרשער פֿון סאָװעטישער קולטור און פֿאַראינטערעסירטע אין דער נאָך־מלחמהדיקער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור