Tag: Art
Omer counters blend space and time, past and present
Tobi Kahn grasps an asymmetric block of wood in both hands. He turns the piece, a fluid combination of angles and curves painted a rich metallic pewter, to reveal the base: a perfect rectangle,...
Artist depicts disarmingly beautiful Holocaust art
At first blush, the recent, photorealistic paintings of Los Angeles-based Jewish artist Robert Russell look inviting, almost sweet. A lamb turns its head to look back over its shoulder in one, and in another, a crouching...
Prague museums return 14 artworks to heirs of Jewish collector
Two Czech art institutions have returned 14 artworks to heirs of a Jewish collector, from whom they were improperly taken during and after World War II, the New York State financial services department announced.
The National...
Contemporary art meets ancient stones in Jerusalem
Contemporary art might not be the first thing on the minds of visitors to the remnants of ancient Jerusalem, but this Sukkot a ground-breaking exhibit brought art and archaeology together 20 feet under the...
Japan and the Jews: New Tikotin Museum First of it’s Kind Exhibit Highlights Humanism...
As Israel marks the occasion of 70 years of diplomatic relations with Japan, the Tikotin Museum of the Haifa Museums, the only museum of its type in the Middle East dedicated to preserving and...
Three Modigliani sketches found under painting at Haifa museum
X-rays of Amedeo Modigliani’s 1908 painting “Nude with a Hat” yielded a surprise for curators at the Hecht Museum in Haifa: three unfinished sketches by the celebrated Jewish Italian artist were hiding beneath the surface.
“Nude with...
Unique, colorful, kinetic: Yaacov Agam Museum in Rishon Letzion
There’s only one museum in Israel dedicated to a sole living artist—the Yaacov Agam Museum in Rishon Letzion. Agam is so prolific and his work so striking that it’s not surprising that he merits...
New Jerusalem exhibit demonstrates how plastic is ‘suffocating Earth’
“Warning: Plastic packets may be dangerous. Full stop.”
This is the typical warning label on those small plastic packets of silica gel that are tossed into food packaging, shoe boxes, electronics wrapping and more. Not...
Magnificent Chagall Windows mark 60 years in Jerusalem
When Marc Chagall debuted a series of biblically inspired stained-glass windows at the Louvre in Paris and then at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan in 1961, these shows were only stopovers before...
Artist Frieda Salvendy Commemorated in British Town of Her Retirement
Malvern has attracted a fair number of people with refugee status over the last one hundred years or so. The most recent to come under public gaze is an Austrian woman, Frieda Salvendy. Frieda...