Painting
Congress removes deadline for Holocaust-looted art claims, opening door to more restitution
The controversial "sunset clause" of a 2016 law led watchdogs to believe that those owning looted works were purposefully obscuring them from public view until the deadline had passed.
Modigliani painting looted, resold by Nazis returned to estate of rightful Jewish owner
Tsuki Garbian's exhibition 'A Very Still Life' deconstructs and reconstructs art on canvas
Three artists, three questions: 3-D imagination - sculptures
Mundane becomes out of the ordinary at Jerusalem Artist's House
The most expansive exhibition at the Jerusalem Artists’ House at present takes in several dozen monochromic works by Talia Israeli.
Traversing consciousness with artist and photographer Mohau Modikaseng
Modikaseng's inspiration is often drawn from dreams, from baffling scenes or stunning images projected by his mind’s eye.
Bezalel academy graduates try to shine in final exhibition: Review
Myriad works show what the new generation of Israeli artists have to offer. Varying in quality, some prove the students cultivated their own creative voice.
Museum can keep $40 million Nazi-looted Pissarro painting - US court
A Spanish museum, not the heirs of a Jewish woman fleeing the Holocaust, is the rightful owner of a Pissarro painting now valued at $40 million, a US appeals court has ruled.
Art for all ages – and places
Lena Zaidel seems to have followed a go-with-the-flow line to the creations in her new exhibition, Homage, curated by Batsheva Dori-Carlier which opened at the Agripas 12 gallery this week.
Ein Harod art museum opens five new exhibitions this summer
Painter Eli Shamir’s exhibition “Borders” is actually co-hosted by the Herzliya Museum of Art with Mishkan presenting paintings that focus on borders and how the human eye defines them.
Man who spent his life hunting down stolen Nazi art dies from COVID-19
David Toren, had a claim on “Two Riders on the Beach” by German Impressionist Max Liebermann, who was also Jewish.
Conservators discover paintings in sarcophagus of 3,000-year-old mummy
The paintings depicted the goddess Amentet, also known as Imentet, a minor fertility goddess as well as goddess of the dead.
Picasso painting looted by Nazis will return to heirs of Jewish banker
Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, a descendant of composer Felix Mendelssohn, sold the pastel work titled “Head of a Woman” in 1934, along with at least 15 other significant artworks. He died in 1935.
What if Vincent van Gogh had been Jewish?
First the Rijksmuseum. Progressing along a wide boulevard toward the magnificent building I realized that historically it too, as I myself a survivor from Nazi terror, had made many journeys.
