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Gustav Klimt portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold for £180m at Sotheby’s

Oil painting of Austrian-Jewish society figure fetches near-record price at New York auction of Lauder billionaire collection

By Anthea Gerrie

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Bids go in for Gustav Klimt's portrait of Elisabeth Lederer at Sotheby's in New York (CREDIT: Sotheby's)

Still Life with Assorted Fruit by Pieter Claesz (Image: Sotheby's)

For sale: the hidden collection of Dutch Masters owned by property mogul who fled Hitler

By Jenni Frazer

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Olive Picking by Vincent van Gogh (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Jewish family sues NYC’s Met Museum over ‘secretly trafficked’ Nazi-looted van Gogh

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Lauder’s art treasures go on sale

Lauder’s art treasures go on sale

By Anthea Gerrie

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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) receives Israeli conductor Lahav Shani at the presidential Bellevue Palace in Berlin after the cancellation of a performance by the Flanders Festival Ghent in Belgium (Image: Getty)

Danny Driver

By Danny Driver

Silencing music: the dangerous rise of anti-Israel boycotts in the arts

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A portrait by Thomas de Keyser of the Silversmith Christian van Vianen is among the works of art from Manny Davidson's collection that is now for sale.

The art collector who was ‘the essence of a good Jew’

By Jenni Frazer

4 min read

Artwork by Michael Sandle in the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition: 'Apropos Terror: Pilot doesn’t hear the screams of the women and children he is massacring with impunity'

Royal Academy artwork suggests Israeli pilots are morally inferior to Hamas

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

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In Haifa, artists document the war on the city’s walls

How the northern Israeli city has turned to graffiti to express its pain in the wake of October 7

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April 25, 2025 10:18

In Haifa, artists document the war on the city’s walls

David Hirsh

What the removal of a Netanyahu Hitler painting can tell us about the art world

Modern antisemitism is just an extension of how art is used as propaganda

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March 13, 2025 16:46

James Earley was asked to remove his painting Monster from Saatchi Art's The Other Art Fair on Brick Lane

Painting comparing Netanyahu to Hitler removed from Saatchi art fair amid outrage

The painting is ‘deeply offensive to the memory of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust’, one visitor said

By Imogen Garfinkel

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March 7, 2025 16:26

James Earley was asked to remove his painting Monster from Saatchi Art's The Other Art Fair on Brick Lane

Jewish London through an American lens

Nick Rosenoer took his camera to the streets of London for his photo series depicting Jewish life in Britain

By Eliana Jordan

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March 4, 2025 16:41

Dress rehearsal: A north London mother helps her child into a costume for Purim. (Photo: Nick Rosenoer)

Outrage over National Portrait Gallery photo of keffiyeh-donned Gaza activist

Image of anti-Israel PSC campaigner who compared Gaza War to the Holocaust on display in taxpayer funded gallery

By Jane Prinsley

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January 9, 2025 13:48

A photograph of Walshe activist Nelly Adam taken by Laurie Broughton appears in the National Portrait Gallery's 2024 Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize exhibit. She can be seen draped in a keffiyeh and a “free Palestine” pin from the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC).

The gift that reminds a soldier how close he came to death

The Chanukah gift made for Gilad Aviad contains the metal that almost killed him in Gaza

By Simon Rocker

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January 8, 2025 11:57

Haunting memento: artist Roni Weiss with Gilad Aviad holding the dreidel incorporating the piece of shrapnel that came so close to taking the soldier’s life

2024 in review: Jewish art

This past year has seen an outpouring of creativity from Israeli artists who have used their talents as an outlet for trauma and to battle antisemitism and anti-Israel forces

By Karen Glaser

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December 24, 2024 16:05

2024 in review: Jewish art

Film industry ‘institutionally antisemitic’ says BAFTA-nominated producer

Leo Pearlman spoke on a JC panel of experts, chaired by broadcaster Rob Rinder

By Daniel Ben-David

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December 6, 2024 19:23

JC panel discusses the growing hostility towards Jews in the arts. Left to right: Actress Louisa Clein, Michael Etherton, the Chief Executive of UK Jewish Film, literary agent Neil Blair, film producer Leo Pearlman, talent manager Jonathan Shalit, and broadcaster, barrister and JC columnist Rob Rinder (Photo: JC)

Major Jewish arts donor resigns from her roles citing ‘normalisation of hate’

Candida Gertler is co-founder of the Outset fund, which has raised millions for the arts

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December 1, 2024 12:01

Candida Gertler

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