September 28, 2022
By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
(JTA) — A Dutch committee charged with assessing and acting on claims about artwork stolen from Jews before and during the Holocaust has determined that a painting by Wassily Kandinsky should be returned to the family of the Jewish woman who likely owned it prior to the Holocaust.
The family of Johanna Margarethe Stern-Lippmann, who was murdered in 1944 at Auschwitz, should regain possession of “Blick auf...
September 02, 2022
By ALAN SMASON, Special to the CCJN
A major exhibit of one of the most well-known Jewish political artists of the 20th century, Arthur Szyk (pronounced “shick”), opened last night, Thursday, September 1, at the National World War II Museum, the date that coincides with start of World War II 83 years ago.
Titled “In Real Times. Arthur Szyk: Art & Human Rights,” the exhibit was opened for the first...
July 13, 2022
By JACOB HENRY
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — The latest chapter of the surreal saga over who is making decisions for the aged pop artist Peter Max is pitting two children of Holocaust survivors against each other.
One is Libra Max, Peter Max’s daughter. The other is Barbara Lissner, an attorney who represents Holocaust survivors, including in their efforts to secure restitution. She became Peter Max’s guardian in...
November 14, 2021
By SHIRA HANAU
(JTA) — A watercolor painting by Vincent Van Gogh that was stolen by the Nazis from its Jewish owner during the Holocaust was sold at auction for $35,855,000 Thursday, breaking the record for the largest sum ever paid for a Van Gogh painting on paper at auction.
The painting had been purchased by Max Meirowsky, a German Jewish art collector, in 1913. When Meirowsky left Germany for...
October 02, 2020
By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN
(JTA) — For his latest installation, dancer and choreographer Adam McKinney drew inspiration from what may seem like disparate sources: the Jewish holiday of Succot, the coronavirus pandemic and the 1921 lynching of a Black man in Texas.
“Shelter in Place” consists of a “deconstructed sukkah,” tree branches hanging from the ceiling and elements making up the schach, a see-through material put on top of the sukkah,...
February 07, 2020
(JTA) – Beverly Pepper, a sculptor famed for her monumental iron and steel works, has died. Pepper died Wednesday at her home in Italy. She was 97.
Pepper was born Beverly Stoll in Brooklyn in 1922. She moved to Europe in the late 1940s and in the early 1950s settled in Rome with her husband, journalist and author Curtis Bill Pepper. The couple moved to central Italy’s Umbria region in...
December 24, 2019
By CURT SCHLEIER
When the Yiddish New York Festival kicked off on the first night of Chanukah, the coincidence of the weeklong celebration of Yiddish culture, food, music and dance with the Festival of Lights was unmissable.
Aside from the traditional Chanukah staples of latkes and jelly doughnuts that will be on hand, one highlight of the festival at the 14th Street Y in Manhattan will be the remarkable photography...
June 14, 2019
By ALAN SMASON, Special to the CCJN
Two years ago the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal (MAC) organized an exhibit on Canada’s favorite son writer, composer, singer and cultural icon, Leonard Cohen. Titled “A Crack in Everything,” the immersive and interactive exhibit included a collection of commissioned works from artists who cite Cohen as a major influence on their own artistic endeavors.
Two months ago in mid-April, the Jewish Museum...
July 24, 2017
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The final project of an art student who said she used artifacts she removed from Auschwitz will go on display after she clarified that they came from outside the former Nazi camp.
Beit Berl College near Kfar Saba in central Israel announced late last week that the exhibition by Rotem Bides would go on as planned. The decision came following a disciplinary hearing with Bides, 27, the...
January 06, 2017
M. S. Rau Antigues is closing its exhibition “Napoleon: General. Emperor. Legend.” tomorrow, January 7. The exhibit, which opened in early November, is filled with beautiful objects d’art, most of which are curated from the Napoleonic era.
With its French colonial past and rich Creole history, New Orleans was strongly attracted to the French military hero and leader. The Napoleon House, located on St. Louis and Chartres Streets, stands as...
