Painting

Three artists, three questions: Straight from the school

This year’s Faculty of Art graduation exhibition, titled Sof. Hatchala (End. Beginning) featured 21 students from the Faculty of Design, 6 from Scenography, and 25 from the Faculty of Art.

SHAHAR BERLINER.
Ori Livne’s ethereal red-hued works draw on the past and allude to fading memory.

New art for a New Year: Jerusalem Artists House unveils a new set of exhibitions - review

Police officers patrol in front of the entrance of the Musee Renoir after four paintings, together valued at nine million euros, were stolen in an early-morning break-in, with two recovered in the museum's garden and two still missing, in Cagnes-sur-Mer on September 8, 2026.

Thieves steal four Renoir paintings from museum on French Riviera in most recent European art heist

LEFT: AARON KRAUS, ‘Standing Prayer (Amidah).’ RIGHT: MIRIAM  JASKIEROWICZ ARMAN, ‘Begetting Life.’

‘Jerusalem of Gold’ exhibit brings five Israeli artists to the capital’s theater


Revealing the invisible: Jewish artists bring Mount Sinai to life

For artists who take on the challenge of depicting scenes from the Torah – particularly Moses and the giving of the Ten Commandments – the process begins with preparation.

Huvy Elisha paintings (all oil on canvas): ‘Man with the Torah.’

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.

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.

YEHUDA ARMONI, ‘Capriccio’

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.

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.

Seated Man With a Cane by Amadeo Modigliani

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

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

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

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

NETA BACHRACH

A Monet walk through Paris: Seeing the city as the artist did

Monet is still gently celebrated across France each autumn through museum tributes, Impressionist displays, and a renewed reverence for the light and landscapes that shaped his art.

THE CLAUDE Monet room at La Maison Proust.

Self-portrait of Frida Kahlo sells for more than $54 million, setting new record for female artists

Featuring Kahlo asleep in her bed, the piece, painted in 1940, surpassed the painting price of the previous record holder, Georgia O’Keeffe, whose painting sold for $44.4 million in 2014.

Auctioneer Oliver Barker, Chairman of Sotheby's Europe, sells a Frida Kahlo self portrait for $34.9 Million USD during an art auction, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., November 16, 2021

Missing Picasso painting found in Madrid weeks after vanishing

The small framed "Still Life with Guitar" was part of a larger shipment of artworks moved from Madrid to Granada.

Spanish National Police inspect a Picasso painting "Still Life with Guitar", that disappeared during transport on October 10, 2025, in Madrid, Spain October 24, 2025.