Jewish Women from Diverse Artistic Perspectives
New show highlights the diversity of Jewish women's experiences.
The Grand Canvases of Nirit Takele's Ethiopian-Israeli Experience
The painter Nirit Takele, already a celebrated artist at 33 years old, is evoking the spirit of both her homelands in her bold work.
Painting by Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall, bought for $25,000 in 1997, sells for $21.1 million
The sale price of “Past Times” was a record for Marshall and the most ever paid for the work of a living African-American artist, according to Sotheby’s.
Modigliani’s Sephardic Jewish Background You Didn’t Know About
Amedeo Modigliani, the Sephardic Jewish-Italian painter and sculptor, was born in Livorno, a port city known as refuge for those persecuted for their religion.
Seven Jewish Heroines Disney Should Make a Movie About
In Disney's latest animated blockbuster-Moana, set in Polynesia-the title character's religious faith plays an important role, as Mark I. Pinsky, author of The Gospel According to Disney, noted in Tablet last week.
PRESS RELEASE: Jewish Identity Through Art
Siona Benjamin’s paintings reflects the multitude of cultural and religious traditions that were part of her Jewish childhood.