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The art that made Ukraine and the Jewish artists who made it

This weekend the UK’s biggest ever exhibition about modernist art in Ukraine opens at the Royal Academy

By Susan Gray

5 min read

Issakhar Ber Ryback, City Shtetl, 1917, oil on canvas, National Art Museum of Ukraine

Claude Monet’s “Meules à Giverny,” one of the paintings in the collection under investigation

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Swiss museum takes down paintings allegedly stolen by Nazis

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Picture of sophistication: Peggy Guggenheim on the roof terrace of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Venice, in the early 1950s

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My grandma the legend: Life with art collector Peggy Guggenheim, the fabulously wealthy bohemian

By Anthea Gerrie

6 min read

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The mother of feminist art: Judy Chicago comes to London

By Susan Gray

5 min read

Two paintings by Rachel Solomon (Photo: Tate)

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‘This is about women taking charge of their futures’

By Nicole Lampert

5 min read

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Material world of four women artists

By Anthea Gerrie

3 min read

Picture of resilience: Laura Arenson’s painting of Susan Pollack

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Painted after October 7, the Holocaust survivor portrait that radiates hope

By JC Reporter

1 min read

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I have seen antisemitism growing in the politicised art world for years

One artist colleague of many years shared an infographic that said it was impossible to be antisemitic because Jews weren’t ‘Semites’

3 min read

May 1, 2024 09:07

I have seen antisemitism growing in the politicised art world for years

Israeli artists shutter Venice Biennale pavilion until ceasefire and hostage deal

The delegation representing Israel at the art fair will not open their show in protest at war

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

April 16, 2024 11:20

Artists and curators representing Israel at this year's Venice Biennale will not open their exhibit until a ceasefire in Gaza and a hostage deal is announced (Photo: AP)

Hitler dog installation sparks controversy in Vienna

Artwork commemorates Hitler’s infamous ‘Pearl Speech’

By Rob Hyde

1 min read

April 9, 2024 09:03

Hitler dog installation sparks controversy in Vienna

My father risked his life making fun of Hitler

The defiance of a Jewish artist and poet in hiding in wartime Holland is explored in a deeply moving new exhibition in the German capital

By David Herman

5 min read

April 4, 2024 17:36

My father risked his life making fun of Hitler

Esther without borders: Artists around the world reimagine the Purim story

For the past 34 years, Jerusalemite David Moss has been asking fellow artists from across the globe to interpret the story of Purim.

By Mordechai Beck

2 min read

March 20, 2024 12:26

'Sending The Story to All Lands' © Philip Carey, California (Photo: Shira Cohen Beck)

Artists try to ban Israel from Venice Biennale art fair

Petition says Israel’s presence would amount to having a ‘genocide pavilion’

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

February 28, 2024 18:12

VENICE, ITALY - MAY 20: The tent of Majlis pavilion built for the 2021 Venice International Architecture Biennale (Photo by Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images for Bolton&Quinn)

The £2 million masterpiece lost in a shul cupboard for 15 years

The ‘spectacular’ 19th-century German painting of the Western Wall sold at auction earlier this month

By Susan Gray

6 min read

February 23, 2024 14:11

Stirring artworks made since October 7 massacre tour London

The artworks appeared in less than half of the originally planned locations due to security concerns

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

February 21, 2024 16:54

An art exhibition created by artists based in Israel following the horrific events of October 7th displayed in London (Credit: Amanda Rose/@amandarosephoto)

Children’s Sunday school in Glasgow encourages children to depict parachutes in art session for Palestine

Paragliders were famously used by Hamas on October 7 to cross the Israeli border before slaughtering 1,400 people

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

February 8, 2024 17:02

A social media post from Red Sunday School encouraging children and young people to create 'parachute banners' during a 'artworks for Palestine' session

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The art that made Ukraine and the Jewish artists who made it

Swiss museum takes down paintings allegedly stolen by Nazis

My grandma the legend: Life with art collector Peggy Guggenheim, the fabulously wealthy bohemian

The mother of feminist art: Judy Chicago comes to London

‘This is about women taking charge of their futures’

Material world of four women artists

Painted after October 7, the Holocaust survivor portrait that radiates hope

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