Painting

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.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
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

The landscape of the Land of Israel has never been neutral. Shaped by longing, ideology, and memory as much as by sight, artists have repeatedly turned the land into an idea.

|ByDR. DORON J. LURIE
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

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.

|ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
Seated Man With a Cane by Amadeo Modigliani

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

The estate of Oscar Stettiner, a British-born Jewish art dealer in Paris, has been engaged in a lengthy legal battle to retrieve Seated Man With a Cane by Amadeo Modigliani.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER

This new exhibit in Jaffa features works created by people with mental and physical disabilities

With pieces from 25 artists, the modest, well-lit gallery was filled with oil and acrylic on canvas, drawings, mixed media, sculptures and even digital media pieces.

APRIL 11, 2024BySHANNA FULD
JAFFA’S ART Salon Gallery is hosting works by 25 special artists.

Tambour launches a new color collection: Balance

APRIL 3, 2024ByEINAT LIOR

Top 5 Miniature Painting Services: Quality and Value Compared

FEBRUARY 14, 2024ByPR

‘Out there’ in the art world

Painter Ella Amitay Sadovsky presents “Out There” at the Wilfrid Israel Museum, curated by Shir Meller-Yamaguchi.

FEBRUARY 5, 2024ByHAGAY HACOHEN
‘OUT THERE’ by Ella Amitay Sadovsky.

Five Artists asked to paint on walls in Haifa, with impressive results

Artistic Revival: Five artists paint stunning wall murals in Haifa's urban centers, infusing the city with vibrant colors and vitality. See the captivating pictures.

FEBRUARY 4, 2024ByOFER PETERSBURG
Bringing art to commercial centers in Haifa.

Art as a source of cultural resilience

Launch of the Schusterman Collection at the Haifa Museum of Art.

FEBRUARY 1, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The fig seller Nachum Gutman 1932

Madrid museum may keep Pissarro painting looted by Nazis, US appeals court rules

The 3-0 decision by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California, came in one of the oldest Nazi art theft cases.

JANUARY 10, 2024ByREUTERS
A visitor leans to look at Camille Pissarro's "Rue Saint-Honore in the Afternoon. Effect of Rain, 1897" at Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid, Spain, April 22, 2022.

Meet the Moldovan olah with a burning love for colors

Anna, a Moldovan olah with an affinity for art, has presented her paintings in solo and group exhibitions in Israel and around the world.

DECEMBER 30, 2023ByJORDANA BENAMI
Anna Aiach

Castel Museum showcases Pinchas Shaar

Castel was described after his death in 1991 by art historian Gideon Ofrat as a member of the “heroic period of Israeli modernism.”

DECEMBER 13, 2023ByHAGAY HACOHEN
PINCHAS SAAR'S 'Chariots of Gods (An Artist as a Magician),' 1986.

The longest painting from Israeli children for IDF soldiers

They wrote: "Thank you to the soldiers who protect us."

NOVEMBER 28, 2023ByRUTH SIVAN
The Longest Painting from Israeli Children for IDF Soldiers 110 meters long.