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A view of 'Drifting With Magritte: Castles in the Air,' the Israel Museum's new exhibit offering an in-depth look at the iconic Surrealist work, through October 2022 (Courtesy Zohar Shemesh)
June 9, 2026, 1:16 am
Magritte masterpiece at Israel Museum being repaired after pinecone puncture
‘The Castle of the Pyrenees,’ which was donated to the museum in the 1980s, was damaged by a young boy who idly pierced the canvas while visiting with his family
By Jessica Steinberg
Mierle Laderman Ukeles speaks with a sanitation worker in an archival photo. (Courtesy Toby Perl Freilich via JTA)
May 2, 2026, 2:20 am
New film profiles Jewish feminist who is NYC Sanitation Department’s official artist
‘Maintenance Artist’ looks at Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s 50-year partnership with the municipal workers and her belief, rooted in Jewish identity, that people are more than their societal roles
By Jackie Hajdenberg
An Iranian woman passes by Georges Rouault painting "Trio-Cirque" (1928) displayed at the Modern Art Movement exhibition at Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art, September 1, 2005. (BEHROUZ MEHRI / AFP)
March 28, 2026, 8:30 am
One of the most inaccessible art collections in the world awaits liberation in Tehran
The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art was founded before the Islamic Revolution. Gems from its $3 billion collection have only rarely been seen since; now its fate is shrouded in the fog of war
By Rossella Tercatin
'Anne Frank: The Exhibition,' at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, January 2025. (John Halpern)
December 25, 2025, 3:12 pm
German painting of Anne Frank wearing keffiyeh sparks outrage
German and Israeli officials say the depiction of the teen girl, a universal symbol of the Holocaust, crosses the line from legitimate art to antisemitic propaganda
By Zev Stub
Botanical motifs from an excavation at Arpachiyah, Iraq, now in the British Museum. (Yosef Garfinkel)
December 20, 2025, 11:30 am
Study of prehistoric botanical art in the Levant suggests ancient man could do math
Analysis by Hebrew University researchers shows 8,000-year-old Halafian pottery sherds bearing symmetry and numerical patterning in images of trees, flowers and shrubs
By Sue Surkes
Long-lost painting 'Crucifixion of Jesus Christ' by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, which was hidden for more than four centuries, is displayed at the auction house Osenat in Versailles, west of Paris, Nov. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
December 1, 2025, 8:47 am
Long-lost Rubens painting depicting crucifixion sells for $2.7 million
Artwork was recently found in Parisian townhouse; was initially thought to be from Rubens workshop rather than painter himself, but authenticity confirmed after scientific analysis
By AP
French police officers stand next to a basket lift used by robbers to enter the Louvre Museum, on Quai Francois Mitterrand, in Paris on October 19, 2025. (Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)
October 19, 2025, 3:50 pm
Chainsaw-wielding thieves use basket lift to steal ‘priceless’ jewelry from Louvre
French daily Le Parisien reports that criminals stole ‘nine pieces from the jewelry collection of Napoleon and the Empress’; one stolen item later found near museum
By Agencies
Two paintings believed to be by Ambrosius Bosschaert recovered by the Monuments Men and Women Foundation. (Courtesy Monuments Men and Women Foundation via JTA)
September 16, 2025, 10:48 am
Ohio auction house halts sale of ‘unclaimed’ paintings Nazis took from Jewish owner
Art restitution organization, responding to tip-off, researched works by Ambrosius Bosschaert and discovered they belonged to family of German Jewish collector Adolphe Schloss
By Grace Gilson
La Route Montante (The Road), 1884, by French painter Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). The painting is part of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection and can be viewed at the Kunsthaus in Zurich, Switzerland. (Public domain)
June 25, 2025, 8:09 pm
Swiss museum reaches deal to keep Gauguin work sold by Jews fleeing Nazi Germany
French master’s 1884 ‘The Street’ is one of five originally Jewish-owned works removed by Kunsthaus Zurich that were looted or sold under duress and swept up by German arms dealer
By Agencies
Art dealer Oghenochuko Ojiri leaves the Westminster Magistrates' Court in London after a hearing in the case accusing him of violating the UK Terrorism Act by selling artwork to an alleged Hezbollah financer, May 9, 2025. (Screen capture: Youtube/City News)
June 7, 2025, 9:26 am
British TV antiques expert jailed over artworks sold to suspected Hezbollah donor
In what is thought to be first such conviction under UK Terrorism Act, Oghenochuko Ojiri pleads guilty to selling 8 pieces worth $190,000 to US-sanctioned collector Nazem Ahmad
By AFP
Illustrative: People watch workers move the Adas Israel Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in Washington, to a new location down the street, where it became part of the Capital Jewish Museum, on January 9, 2019, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
April 10, 2025, 2:02 am
US Jewish cultural institutions reeling as Trump defunds arts and humanities
Widespread cuts are touted as cutting costs, but come two years after a Biden administration initiative described museums as a critical tool against the spread of antisemitism
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Rembrandt van Rijn, 'A Jewish Heroine from the Hebrew Bible,' 1632–33. Oil on canvas, 43 x 37 ⅛ in. (109.2 x 94.4 cm). National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, purchased 1953, accession no. 6089. (NGC)
March 12, 2025, 12:53 am
Drawing on Dutch masters, NY exhibit explores Christians painting themselves into Purim parable
Eschewing Persian version, Jewish Museum extends art curation scepter to masters like Rembrandt, who saw Esther’s heroism echoed in their own struggle against Catholic Spain
By Cathryn J. Prince
Hundreds of demonstrators hold flags and pictures of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah at a protest rally in Sydney on September 29, 2024. (Saeed KHAN / AFP)
February 17, 2025, 10:17 am
Lebanese-Australian artist dropped from 2026 Venice Biennale over Nasrallah imagery
Khaled Sabsabi removed from show after article singles out 2007 work featuring late Hezbollah terror leader; Sabsabi says he is ‘extremely hurt and disappointed’ by decision
By ToI Staff
Some of the artworks shown in the 'Lucid Dreams' exhibit at the Israel Museum that opened December 17, 2024 (Credit Zohar Shemesh)
January 2, 2025, 9:22 am
What dreams may come: Surrealistic exhibits mark start of Israel Museum’s 60th year
After international institutions shunned them amid war, the curators of ‘Lucid Dreams’ and ‘Alma Mater’ turned inward, assembling over 180 local works
By Jessica Steinberg
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel students and demonstrators shout slogans at the campus of SOAS University of London as students occupy parts of university campus in London, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
November 30, 2024, 2:51 pm
UK Jewish philanthropist quits volunteer art work over ‘alarming rise of antisemitism”
Candida Gertler announces move to protest ‘normalization of hate’ as London museum severs its ties with her amid calls to boycott her for Israel advocacy, friendship with Netanyahu
By ToI Staff
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