Tablet
Gyno For Pyros
28 Jul 2025
Marco Roth's piece "Gyno For Pyros" delves into the artistic nuances of a Richard Gerstl painting housed in Vienna's Leopold Museum, depicting a young milita...
28 Jul 2025
Tablet
A Head in the Clouds
24 Jul 2025
Jacqueline Gourevitch, celebrated for her cloud paintings, is a vibrant link to the New York School of the mid-20th century, painting in the tradition of pur...
24 Jul 2025
JTA
Meet the Jewish architects who designed NYC’s iconic art deco buildings
21 Jul 2025
New York City's iconic art deco skyline owes much to the influence of Jewish architects who contributed to this distinctive style during its peak in the 1920...
21 Jul 2025
Forward
In this Holocaust story, there are few words, no swastikas, no yellow stars — just movement, passion and empathy
20 Jul 2025
Suki John's film "Shma: A Story of Survival" utilizes dance to narrate her mother's Holocaust survival story. Initially conceptualized as a stage choreodrama...
20 Jul 2025
Jewish Review of Books
Sorry, No More Borscht
15 Jul 2025
Jeremy Dauber examines the Jewish roots and broad cultural influence of MAD magazine through a collection of essays edited by David Mikics. Initially launche...
15 Jul 2025
The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner
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'It's my gift to the world': Why this Canadian artist painted all 54 chapters of the Torah
14 Jul 2025
Sheila Nemtin Levine has undertaken the immense task of creating 54 large mixed-media paintings, each representing one chapter of the Torah, integrating mode...
14 Jul 2025
Moment
Ben Shahn On Nonconformity
2 Jul 2025
Ben Shahn, a Jewish artist and prominent figure in the American Progressive movement, is celebrated in a retrospective at the Jewish Museum in New York City....
2 Jul 2025
Forward
Venice’s international arts festival gets unexpected taste of Yiddish
1 Jul 2025
The 2025 Venice Biennale features a unique cultural touch with the return of the Yiddishland Pavilion, an initiative by curator Maria Veits and artist Yevgen...
1 Jul 2025
Jewish Currents
Fertility Series -
1 Jul 2025
Ellie Lobovits' work in the Fertility Series delves into complex themes of queer feminist identity using various forms like photography, film, and text. Thro...
1 Jul 2025
Jewish Currents
Portraits of Before - Collective members create a shared origin story from their pre-immigration photos.
1 Jul 2025
The Cheburashka Collective utilizes pre-immigration photos to weave a narrative of shared origins, exploring the impact of past experiences on collective ide...
1 Jul 2025
Jewish Currents
Hide and Seek -
1 Jul 2025
Jenny Yurshansky uses her experience as a refugee to inform her artistic work, which delves into themes of displacement, belonging, and otherness. Her practi...
1 Jul 2025
Moment
Visual Moment | 50 Years, 50 Noted American Jews in the Arts
26 Jun 2025
Over the past five decades, Jewish Americans have made significant contributions to the visual and performing arts, achieving prominence in fields such as pa...
26 Jun 2025
Moment
Visual Moment | KEY to 50 Years, 50 Noted American Jews in the Arts
26 Jun 2025
The article from Moment Magazine highlights 50 influential American Jews who have made significant contributions to the arts over the past half-century. It c...
26 Jun 2025
New Voices
KOL! Artist Blue Reinhard Imagines a Queer Jewish Future
20 Jun 2025
Artist Blue Reinhard uses their art to explore the intersections of Jewish identity, queerness, and participatory action. Through an innovative art practice ...
20 Jun 2025
Jewish Currents
What's Ours - Myriam Boulos’s photographs probe the porous boundaries between everyday life and revolutionary rupture.
17 Jun 2025
Myriam Boulos's photographic series, "What's Ours," captures the vibrant and tumultuous reality of contemporary Lebanon, particularly during the October 17 R...
17 Jun 2025
Unpacked
How Stan Lee’s Jewish past shaped the Marvel characters you love #comics #marvel #storytelling
15 Jun 2025
Stan Lee, the iconic creator behind many beloved Marvel superheroes, was deeply influenced by his Jewish upbringing and heritage. Growing up in a struggling ...
15 Jun 2025
Lilith
Go Forth O Daughters: Reclaiming the Yiddish “Women’s Bible” in Art
29 May 2025
Artist Danielle Alhassid's "Go Forth O Daughters" is an innovative art project exploring the Tsenerene, the Yiddish Women's Bible, integrating historical tex...
29 May 2025
Forward
Is this salacious opera a critique of Jewishness — or a celebration of its complexity?
29 May 2025
The Metropolitan Opera's production of "Salome," directed by Claus Guth, explores the biblical story with a focus on themes of childhood trauma and power dyn...
29 May 2025
eJewishPhilanthropy
On being an artist-rabbi: Bringing ‘play’ into Jewish communal practice
29 May 2025
Rabbi Hannah Dresner, recently retired from Or Shalom in Vancouver, reflects on integrating artistic practice into Jewish communal life, building on the idea...
29 May 2025
The CJN Daily with Ellin Bessner
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How Israeli-Canadian illusionist Vitaly Beckman fooled Penn & Teller–a third time!
28 May 2025
Vitaly Beckman, an Israeli-Canadian illusionist, has achieved a rare feat by fooling Penn and Teller for the third time on their show "Penn & Teller: Fool Us...
28 May 2025
Forward
In 1960's New York, the past was a foreign country — they sure did things differently there
26 May 2025
J. Hoberman's book, "Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde," provides a comprehensive exploration of the radical artistic movements that flourish...
26 May 2025
Forward
The Jewish artist who almost died exploring the Wild West
24 May 2025
Solomon Nunes Carvalho, a Sephardic Jewish artist, embarked on a perilous journey in 1853 at the invitation of John C. Fremont to document the American West....
24 May 2025
Forward
Ben Shahn was a radical artist — why didn't he want to be called a Jewish one?
23 May 2025
Ben Shahn, an influential American artist born in Lithuania in 1898, is the focus of a retrospective at the Jewish Museum titled "On Nonconformity." Despite ...
23 May 2025
Hadassah
New Photos Capture Jewish Storytelling and Folklore
21 May 2025
Hannah Altman's photographic exhibition, "As It Were, Suspended in Midair," held at Brandeis University's Kniznick Gallery, explores the intersection of Jewi...
21 May 2025
Forward
How the war changed an artist's life, his politics — and his painting
15 May 2025
Sam Griffin, a British-born painter who now identifies as Israeli, reflects on his transformation post-Oct. 7 in his exhibition, Aftermath, at the Bernard He...
15 May 2025
Forward
The towering Jewish critic who taught me to grok art and hate Picasso
14 May 2025
In a reflective piece, Jessica Seigel recounts her connections to the influential Marxist art critic Max Kozloff, whose recent memorial in April 2025 unveile...
14 May 2025
JTA
Remembering ‘Dry Bones’ cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen, who sketched Israeli feats and foibles for 50 years
8 May 2025
Yaakov Kirschen, the creator of the long-running cartoon strip Dry Bones, left a lasting impact on the portrayal of Israeli and Jewish life through his art. ...
8 May 2025
Unorthodox
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How to Be a Jew … Like Israel's Most Famous Female Architect
7 May 2025
Host Courtney Hazlett talks with filmmaker Yael Melamede about her documentary, "ADA: My Mother the Architect," which explores the life and work of renowned ...
7 May 2025
Hadassah
The Mom Who Co-Designed Israel’s Supreme Court Building
6 May 2025
Ada Karmi-Melamede, a celebrated Israeli architect, co-designed the iconic Supreme Court building in Jerusalem, reflecting her philosophy that buildings must...
6 May 2025
JTA
These New York Jewish arts organizations have been defunded by the Trump administration
6 May 2025
Several New York Jewish arts organizations, including the Jewish Plays Project and Yugntruf, have lost federal funding due to the Trump administration's redu...
6 May 2025
Forward
She's a titan of Israeli architecture. Her story contains troubling lessons for her country
2 May 2025
Ada Karmi-Melamede, a leading Israeli architect featured in the documentary "Ada: My Mother the Architect," reflects on her influential career and the evolvi...
2 May 2025
Forward
How a Lower East Side Jew conquered the multiverse
30 Apr 2025
Jack Kirby, a prodigious comic artist from the Lower East Side, is celebrated in the retrospective exhibition, "Jack Kirby: Heroes and Humanity" at the Skirb...
30 Apr 2025
Kveller
Jewish Baby Names for Artistic Souls
29 Apr 2025
The role of art in Jewish life is long-standing, spanning from religious artifact creation in historical periods to participation in international art moveme...
29 Apr 2025
JTA
Meet the Jewish artist behind a towering new sculpture in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park
29 Apr 2025
Molly Gochman, a Jewish artist and activist, has unveiled a 15-foot tall bronze sculpture in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, part of her "Monuments to Motherhood" ...
29 Apr 2025
Jewish Insider
Fashion photographer Bryce Thompson pairs Holocaust survivors with celebrities in new collection
24 Apr 2025
Fashion photographer Bryce Thompson has launched a powerful project titled Borrowed Spotlight, which pairs Holocaust survivors with Hollywood celebrities to ...
24 Apr 2025
Forward
How this Marc Chagall painting explains Pope Francis' soul
21 Apr 2025
Pope Francis had a profound appreciation for Marc Chagall's 1938 painting, 'White Crucifixion,' which depicted the immense suffering of the Jews during the N...
21 Apr 2025
Moment
Visual Moment | The Secret Life of an Art Deco Diva
16 Apr 2025
Tamara de Lempicka was a pioneering Art Deco artist known for her glossy portraits and sensual nudes that epitomized the style of the 1920s. Originally from ...
16 Apr 2025
Israel: State of a Nation
Every shard pulled from the ground tells the same story—Hebrew | Eylon levy with Doron Spielman
16 Apr 2025
In a conversation between Eylon Levy and Doron Spielman, the Vice President of the City of David Foundation, the focus is on the archeological findings in Je...
16 Apr 2025
Israel: State of a Nation
The excavation revealed an ancient Jewish pilgrimage route | Eylon Levy with Doron Spielman
12 Apr 2025
The video highlights the discovery of an ancient Jewish pilgrimage route that dates back 600 years before the advent of Islam, uncovering significant histori...
12 Apr 2025
Israel: State of a Nation
The "City of David" isn’t inside the old city walls | Doron Spielman with Eylon Levy
11 Apr 2025
Doron Spielman, Vice President of the City of David Foundation, engages in a conversation with Eylon Levy about the historical and archaeological significanc...
11 Apr 2025
JTA
David Sassoon, the Jewish royal designer who dressed Princess Diana, dies at 92
11 Apr 2025
David Sassoon, the esteemed fashion designer co-directing the couture house Belville Sassoon, passed away at the age of 92. Born in London to Iraqi Sephardi ...
11 Apr 2025
Forward
Nazis are praising Hitler's art prowess. But was he really any good?
11 Apr 2025
With the rise of unregulated speech on social media, Adolf Hitler's art is being reassessed by neo-Nazis, who argue it surpasses modernist Jewish artists lik...
11 Apr 2025
MomentMag
The Life & Work of Maus Cartoonist Art Spiegelman with Philip Dolin and Jennifer Bardi
10 Apr 2025
Art Spiegelman's work, especially his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel 'Maus,' has been pivotal in establishing comics as a serious storytelling art form...
10 Apr 2025
Moment
The Life and Work of Maus Cartoonist Art Speigelman with Philip Dolin and Jenifer Bardi
10 Apr 2025
Art Spiegelman is renowned for his significant contribution to the comic art form, particularly with his groundbreaking graphic novel 'Maus', which won a Pul...
10 Apr 2025
Forward
Sotheby’s to auction earliest known kiddush cup
4 Apr 2025
A historic kiddush cup, believed to be the earliest known Jewish artifact from the Middle Ages, will be auctioned by Sothebys this fall. Dating back to the 1...
4 Apr 2025
Sapir
How Funders Shape Jewish Culture
3 Apr 2025
Philanthropy plays a crucial role in shaping Jewish arts and culture, as funders like Mem Bernstein and Shayna Rose Triebwasser demonstrate through their res...
3 Apr 2025
Sapir
Emunah & the Artist
3 Apr 2025
Exploring the interplay between faith and art, the author delves into the nuances of Hebrew 'emunah' compared to the English 'faith,' highlighting the intrin...
3 Apr 2025
JTA
Britain’s Tate to return Nazi-looted painting to heirs of Jewish art collector
31 Mar 2025
The British government has decided to return a Nazi-looted painting to the heirs of Samuel Hartveld, a Jewish art collector who fled Belgium during World War...
31 Mar 2025
Moment
Book Review | The Colorful Crew Who Unlocked the Past
26 Mar 2025
The review explores Joshua Hammer's "The Mesopotamian Riddle," which delves into the 19th-century race to decipher Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform scripts th...
26 Mar 2025
Mishpacha
Motherboard: Craft Without Clutter
25 Mar 2025
"Motherboard: Craft Without Clutter," by Cindy Scarr, in Mishpacha Magazine, offers practical advice for organizing art supplies in homes, particularly for f...
25 Mar 2025