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.

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.
Seated Man With a Cane by Amadeo Modigliani

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

Tsuki Garbian’s art: ‘SPANGA HOME,’ 2025.

Tsuki Garbian's exhibition 'A Very Still Life' deconstructs and reconstructs art on canvas

NETA BACHRACH

Three artists, three questions: 3-D imagination - sculptures


Climate change protesters throw soup at van Gogh's 'Sunflowers'

A video posted by the group, which has been holding protests for the last two weeks in the British capital, showed two women throwing two tins of Heinz tomato soup over the painting.

 Activists of "Just Stop Oil" glue their hands to the wall after throwing soup at a van Gogh's painting "Sunflowers" at the National Gallery in London

Why is this 19th century woman holding a smartphone?

The woman appears to be scrolling through her smartphone during her walk. Of course, that cannot be the case as the painting is from 1860.

 "The Expected One" by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, 1860

Art Roundup: Thirsty Jerusalem goats, Tivon portraits and a Nigerian funeral

A preview of September exhibitions around the country:

 ‘The Burial of Patricia Nnadi,’ a new exhibition by Soviet-born painter Zoya Cherkassky.

Ein Harod measures spaces between past and current art

A new group exhibition with works by Shira Gepstein, Eyal Assulin, Nitzan Satt and I. S. Kalter is now shown at Ein Harod.

 ‘TRIPTYCH’ by Shira Gepstein.

Azerbaijan-born artist brings his cultural and ethnic backdrop to Tel Aviv

Meir’s artistic work is not only a labor of love and, naturally, immense talent.

 A POP-UP exhibition of Rami Meir’s works.

A soldier's journey from paratrooper to painter

It took being exposed to the ravages of war for Marc Provisor to find his passion in art.

 One work from Marc Provisor's exhibition 'Hashiveinu.'

Exhibit by by comic book artist Rutu Modan drew visitors in the Big Apple


Emergency art sale in support of Ukraine

Whoever purchases a painting, will be asked to transfer the funds to well trusted accounts in Ukraine.   

 Cityscape with Fire (Painter:Ilya Gefter)

New exhibition 'Treasures of the Mishkan Museum of Art' debuts in Ein Harod

This is but the first chapter of what is planned to be a gradual exploration of roughly 20,000 rescued artworks

RED COW, 1954, by Ori Reisman.

Who owns this Nazi-looted Pissarro? US Supreme Court to decide

The original owners have been fighting the Spanish art museum that currently displays it to give the painting back for nearly 17 years. 

 Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain by Camille Pissarro (1897).