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London venue cancels ‘grotesque’ antisemitic art exhibition following UKLFI complaint

A controversial art exhibition featuring antisemitic imagery was canceled in London after UK Lawyers for Israel raised concerns. The show depicted Jews in grotesque caricatures and blood libel.

Exhibition 'Drawings Against Genocide' by British artist and art critic Matthew Collings.
YEHUDA ARMONI, ‘Capriccio’

From canvas to country: Israeli artists turn landscape into ideology and memory

A judge ruled in 2026 that Amedeo Modigliani's "Seated Man with a Cane," shown here in part, must be returned to the family of the man who owned it before the Holocaust.

Congress removes deadline for Holocaust-looted art claims, opening door to more restitution

Seated Man With a Cane by Amadeo Modigliani

Modigliani painting looted, resold by Nazis returned to estate of rightful Jewish owner


A Jewish artist hid hundreds of paintings. Now the works need a home.

The works of Czech artist Gertrud Kauders (1883-1942) were found during the demolition of an old house near Prague in 2018.

Gertrud Kauders hid about 700 of her paintings in a classmate's house during WWII.

Leon Sternberg and his art

He seemed too normal to be such an amazing artist. I expected some crazy story with drugs, love and God.

Paintings by Leon Sternberg

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.

ODED ZAIDEL 'US' 2020

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.

THE MOHAU MODISAKENG installation at Tel Aviv’s Braverman Gallery.

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.

An image from 'Moonscape,' the final project by Bezalel Academy 2020 graduate Mona Benyamin.

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.

A woman walks past artworks at the exhibition "Gurlitt: Status Report. An Art Dealer in Nazi Germany" during a media preview at Martin-Gropius Bau in Berlin, Germany, September 13, 2018

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.

HOMAGE TO Antoni Gaudi – Zaidel infuses her take on iconic art of the past with her own here and now. Her humor comes to the fore in much of her work.

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.

Eli Shamir self portrait with Mara Sirhan from 2017

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.

File photo of a U.S. soldier viewing art stolen by the Nazi regime and stored in church at Ellingen, Germany

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.

A 2,500-year old coffin that may contain a mummy lies at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia March 27, 2018