Art

Argentina investigates daughter of former Nazi official and her husband over stolen painting

Friedrich Kadgien was a senior Nazi official who fled to Argentina after the war. He died in 1979.

Argentine Federal Police escort Patricia Kadgien to a hearing on charges of concealment and obstruction of justice, after authorities recovered a portrait of Contessa Colleoni by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, an iconic painting stolen decades ago by the Nazis, Argentina, September 4, 2025.
Cushion designed by Oron Milshtain

The Israeli designer selling €250 cushions in Paris and hoping to conquer the world

Federal Attorney General of Mar del Plata Daniel Adler listens as Assistant Prosecutor Carlos Martinez addresses the media next to curator Ariel Bassano as a portrait of Contessa Colleoni by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, hangs on the wall, after Argentina officials recovered the iconic painting

Argentina officials recover missing painting stolen by Nazis, ending 80-year mystery

SCULPTOR ISRAEL Hadany’s art emerges through attentive engagement with place, material, and time.

Two galleries present Israel Hadany’s sculptures celebrating 55 years of creativity


The Israel Museum’s 60-year journey through printmaking

One of the highlights of the Israel Museum's 60th-anniversary celebration is 'The Medium and the Message,' an exhibition on printmaking.

HENRI MATISSE, ‘Jazz, 1947,’ from the exhibition ‘The Medium and the Message’ at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Jerusalem art school presents at Ars Electronica in Austria

Founded in 1979, the Austrian bash is run by the Ars Electronica Linz GmbH cultural, educational, and scientific institute, which primarily operates in the field of new media art. 

Naggar School of Art and Society graduates Noga Shalit Glick and Naomi Weisselberg have an artwork in the prestigious Ars Electronica art festival in Linz, Austria.

Three artists, three questions: Is the body limitation or freedom?

In the artworks of the three artists I selected for this month’s column, the body plays diverse direct and indirect but important roles.

Didi Khalifa grew up in the Hebron hills.

Spotted in a Nazi’s daughter’s real estate ad: A painting looted from a famed Jewish art dealer

A painting by Giuseppe Ghislandi, looted by Nazis 85 years ago, was spotted in Argentina but vanished after being listed in a real estate ad. Interpol is now involved in the search.

The suspected 'Portrait of a Lady' in 2025.

Tel Aviv Museum brings 35 new works by Israeli artists into its collection

Acquired through the ‘Voting for Art’ group, the works span a variety of genres, capturing a cross-section of contemporary Israeli creativity.

RAN TENENBAUM, ‘Self Portrait with a Hoodie, 2024,’ from the new collection.

Mamilla: When a mall is also a sculpture gallery

'Mamilla is the largest platform for exhibiting sculptures in the country. No other outdoor mall has an ongoing exhibition like this, and no other place has such a variety of Israeli art.'

Large cutouts of knights seen lining the Mamilla Mall in Jerusalem ahead of the Jewish holiday of Purim, March 11, 2025

At 60, the Israel Museum offers a new take on its accumulated treasures

Reuven Rubin’s evocative 1923 oil painting 'First Fruits' conveys something of a utopian futuristic human and bucolic scene, with Jews and Arabs enjoying a harmonious coexistence in Eretz Yisrael.

The Transparent Conservation Lab offers the public a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the work of the art conservator

'Home is here': Art exhibition showcases undocumented children's stories amid release of new report

Heartfelt art exhibit soon to open in Tel Aviv, featuring the work of children facing the threat of deportation due to their status as the children of migrant workers in Israel.

Painting of the government complex build  with people protesting in front of it against the deportation of themselves, their families, or their friends.ing in Tel Aviv

From Baku to Tel Aviv: Galina Mintz’s journey of art, aliyah, and identity

It’s hard to imagine that Mintz’s life would have progressed as it did if she hadn’t made aliyah.

‘CATS’ BLUES,’ dedicated to the stray cat that came into the artist’s home and soothed her soul in the wake of Oct. 7.

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'Can You See Its Beauty' exhibition showcases and celebrates Zionist pioneers

Goren’s multi-media use is compelling: Photographs, poetry, and music culled from well-known Israeli culture and history, as well as the use of symbols.

TWO IMAGES from the exhibit ‘Can you see its Beauty?’