Painting
For restoration of Vienna’s historic synagogue: Gottfried Helnwein to auction painting
Artist Gottfried Helnwein donated the painting to IKG.Kultur, the cultural arm of Vienna’s Jewish community, to raise funds for the restoration of the historic Vienna City Temple.
Revealing the invisible: Jewish artists bring Mount Sinai to life
London venue cancels ‘grotesque’ antisemitic art exhibition following UKLFI complaint
From canvas to country: Israeli artists turn landscape into ideology and memory
Hidden woman's portrait found beneath Picasso's 'Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto'
Conservators at the Courtauld Institute used X-ray and infrared imaging to uncover the hidden female figure.
Khen Shish’s ‘Feast for the Eyes’ brings vibrant color to Beersheba
That may be a fact of life, but Shish’s gushing passion and fervor, in her art and personality, do one a power of good. Her work is truly a Feast for the Eyes.
Three artists, three questions: Roles of art
Art plays different roles in our perceptions and lives, and these artists profoundly prove that.
Medieval wall paintings depicting unicorn hunt uncovered in Stralsund's Catherine Monastery
According to director Maren Heun, the wall paintings date from around 1500 and are of very high quality.
The new finding from Egypt? A 3,000-year-old painting of a woman that looks just like Marge Simpson
It was discovered at the upper part of a tomb dating back over 3,000 years to the Twentieth Dynasty of the New Kingdom period in Egypt.
Frank Auerbach, renowned figurative painter and Holocaust survivor, dies at 93
Auerbach fled Nazi Germany as a child on a Kindertransport train in 1939 and never saw his parents again.
Poetic wings: Yossi Waxman's new exhibition in Ein Hod celebrates hebrew literary legends
Yossi Waxman's "Class Picture, Poets and Other Birds" opens August 17 at Ein Hod's Janco-Dada Museum, showcasing portraits of Hebrew poets with symbolic birds. The exhibit runs until October 15.
New York City announces return of stolen Nazi art to Austrian Jewish owners
The piece was purchased by Gustav “Gus” Papanek, an Austrian Jew who fled the Nazis in 1938 and was reportedly unaware that the artwork had been stolen.
Another Nazi-looted Schiele painting returned to heirs of ‘Cabaret’ inspiration Fritz Grünbaum
Reif and his relatives have spent countless hours over the decades fighting in court to recover the vast art collection that once belonged to their ancestor.
Archaeologists uncover mural of ‘Westerner’ blond trader in ancient Tang dynasty tomb in China
Archaeologists in northern China uncovered a Tang dynasty tomb with well-preserved murals depicting daily life and a Sogdian trader.
