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.

APRIL 15, 2026|ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA

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

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.

APRIL 5, 2026|ByMATHILDA HELLER

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

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

In his new solo exhibition, Garbian traces the delicate tension between the enduring lessons of the Old Masters and the urgency of the present

FEBRUARY 15, 2026|ByNERIA BARR

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

I was curious about what new contemporary Israeli artists bring to the language of sculpture.

FEBRUARY 1, 2026|ByBASIA MONKA

Van Gogh painting to be shown in public for first time

Titled A street scene in Montmartre, the painting depicts a man and woman, strolling arm in arm past a ramshackle fence with a windmill in the background.

FEBRUARY 24, 2021ByREUTERS

Sotheby's Paris employees pose with the 1887 painting of a Paris street scene "Scene de rue a Montmartre" by Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh which will be presented to the public for the first time after spending more than a century behind closed doors in the private collection of a French family, Fr

Amsterdam mayor wants city's museum to return $22m Nazi-looted painting

“Returning this artwork will mean a lot to the victims and is important for acknowledging the injustice perpetrated,” Halsema wrote.

FEBRUARY 23, 2021ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA

Tourists stand near a disputed Wassily Kandinsky painting at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, July 10, 2019.

Trump’s legacy lives on in Haifa artist’s unique portraits

Iddo Markus paints 150 portraits of the 45th US president

FEBRUARY 18, 2021ByGIL ZOHAR

Iddo Markus paints hundreds of paintings of former US President Donald Trump

“Outsights Represents Our Latest Investments,” Says Ofer Levin Regarding a New Volume of ‘Broad Horizons’

FEBRUARY 15, 2021ByMATAN KEDEM

Seascape in Tel Aviv, 1930s | The Levin Collection

Fifty fascinating facets

Matan Sacofsky’s artwork brings Jerusalem to life on canvas and video

FEBRUARY 7, 2021ByJAMES PALMER

Johan Feder: A Businessman with A Sensitive Heart of an Artist

FEBRUARY 1, 2021ByAVI STERN

Behind the Glass Booth: Art and Eichmann’s trial

The paintings that showed the horrors of the Nazi war criminal will be analyzed for Int’l Holocaust Day.

JANUARY 25, 2021ByHAGAY HACOHEN

Crematorium II in Auschwitz-Birkenau 1945 by artist and Holocaust survivor Yehuda Bacon

Igal Ahouvi Art Collection launches online platform

More private collectors are beginning to unfurl some of the pieces of art they have so lovingly gathered from all corners of the world for our remote, Internet-based viewing pleasure.

OCTOBER 7, 2020ByBARRY DAVIS