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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

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The artist Mark Podwal in his studio in 2007; at right, his illustration "Munich Massacre," drawn in memory of Israeli athletes killed by Black September terrorists during Summer Olympics in Munich, was published in the New York Times in 1972. (Wikipedia via JTA)
Artist Mark Podwal, whose distinctive work adorned museums and synagogues, dies at 79
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Podwal, who worked extensively with Elie Wiesel, devised a Jewish visual vocabulary that made him one of the best-known Jewish artists of his era
The artist Mark Podwal in his studio in 2007; at right, his illustration "Munich Massacre," drawn in memory of Israeli athletes killed by Black September terrorists during Summer Olympics in Munich, was published in the New York Times in 1972. (Wikipedia via JTA)
September 17, 2024, 6:06 am
Artist Mark Podwal, whose distinctive work adorned museums and synagogues, dies at 79
Podwal, who worked extensively with Elie Wiesel, devised a Jewish visual vocabulary that made him one of the best-known Jewish artists of his era
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Timothy Reif and son Paul Reif pose in front of 'Seated Nude Woman, front view,' an Egon Schiele drawing stolen by the Nazis from the private collection of their ancestor, Fritz Grünbaum. (Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA)
July 27, 2024, 11:32 am
Another Nazi-looted Schiele painting returns to heirs of its original owner
Unlike museums that have fought in court to retain art stolen by Third Reich, Papanek family, who also survived Nazis, were happy to return ‘Seated Nude Woman, front view’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Said Abu Shakra in the Umm al-Fahm Art Gallery, July, 2024. (Gali Kedar)
July 18, 2024, 4:35 pm
Aiming to share Palestinian art, Umm al-Fahm gallery becomes Israel’s first Arab museum
Director Said Abu Shakra frankly discusses art, his dual Israeli-Palestinian identity and family as the almost 30-year-old gallery finally gets the recognition he has dreamt of
By Tamar Mor Sela
Mordechai Rosenstein, shown in his studio, created more than 700 works using stylized Hebrew calligraphy and vibrant colors. (Courtesy: Lisa Rosenstein via JTA)
July 12, 2024, 11:21 am
Mordechai Rosenstein, illuminating Jewish calligrapher, dies at 90 in Pennsylvania
Unique brightly colored works that featured stretched out and manipulated Hebrew letters are displayed in countless homes and synagogues around the world
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Lidia Katliarski, right, with her husband and collaborator, Igor Katliarski, in front of one of their painted bomb shelters in Nahariya, spring 2024. (Lidia Katliarski)
July 5, 2024, 11:37 am
After fleeing Ukraine war, wife-husband artist duo paint bomb shelters near Lebanon
Six miles from the Lebanese border, new immigrants Lidia and Igor Katliarski bring life to concrete havens by covering them with murals, giving locals a momentary respite from war
By Diana Bletter
Rachel Meijler enters a replica of a Hamas tunnel in The Hague, Netherlands on June 6, 2024. (Rachel Meijler)
June 15, 2024, 8:30 am
At The Hague, Israelis brave protests to present a portable ‘Hamas tunnel’ exhibit
A gallery owner from Israel and her allies shepherd visitors into a cramped replica fitted into the box of a truck so they can get some sense of what Hamas’s hostages endure
By Canaan Lidor
The Letters of Light Sculpture Garden at the new Israel National Library. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
May 18, 2024, 7:32 am
See Jerusalem’s beautiful art parks, where (almost) no graven images can be found
The Holy City has long had a de facto ban on statues in the human form, as per the second of the Ten Commandments, but that doesn’t mean sculptures are completely off the menu
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Anuar Jour had trouble creating following the October 7 atrocities. (Bernard Dichek)
May 12, 2024, 4:53 am
Displaced by war, Israeli artists are given a seaside studio refuge following Oct. 7
Providing living quarters and studios near the beach, the Old Jaffa Artists Residency sought to reignite smoldering creativity; the work that emerged has surprised even its makers
By Bernard Dichek
Curator Tal Kobo at the Tower of David Museum's new exhibit, 'Spirit of the Stone,' which opened March 7, 2024 (Courtesy Ricky Rachman)
March 27, 2024, 6:59 am
Exhibit looks at 100 years of Jerusalem through the eyes of its artists
Set in new Tower of David pavilion in Old City and nearby Hamiffal art space, show serves up shot of history chased by exploration of the city’s complicated contemporary realities
By Jessica Steinberg
Mauricio Avayu calls each of his works a self portrait. (Courtesy of Avayu via JTA)
December 26, 2023, 1:31 am
A Chilean-Jewish artist strives to capture the entire Torah in massive murals
Mauricio Avayu, whose work has hung in homes of former presidents and been presented to Pope Francis, sets himself apart by striving for accuracy, even consulting rabbinical texts
By Jacob Kessler
'Bitter Moments of Grace' by Matan Ben Cnaan, part of the Nassima-Landau art auction set for December 13, 2023. (Courtesy: Elad Sarig)
December 12, 2023, 6:12 pm
Art auction seeks to aid kibbutz gallery, Gaza border teens
Nassima-Landau exhibit and auction will donate all proceeds to Be’eri gallery and Elem
By Jessica Steinberg
A composite of artist John Singer Sargent, circa 1910, (Sidney Robert Carter/ Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) and his portrait of Lady Sassoon (Aline de Rothschild) 1907 (Private collection/ Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
December 7, 2023, 1:14 am
Works of John Singer Sargent, portrayer of Britain’s Jewish elite, on display in Boston
Artist’s opulent and playful paintings can be seen at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, which inaugurates its new Judaica gallery for Hanukkah, December 7
By Penny Schwartz
Artforum at the 2023 Armory Show VIP Preview at Javits Center on September 7, 2023 in New York City. (Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images via JTA)
October 31, 2023, 7:13 am
Artforum staff resign to protest editor’s firing over anti-Israel letter
Several employees of leading art magazine quit after David Velasco axed for backing ‘Palestine liberation’ in open letter that made no mention of Hamas massacres
By Andrew Lapin
'The Terrorist Attack at Nova Music Festival' by Zoya Cherkassky, October 2023.
October 28, 2023, 1:19 pm
With gut-wrenching drawings, artist Zoya Cherkassky shares Israel’s pain with world
There is no escaping the sheer horror, pain and trauma in mixed-media works on paper, in which even the brightest colors are overshadowed by the blackness of Saturday, October 7
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The Great Hall at the Château de Ferrières. Watercolor by Eugène Lami. From the Rothschild collection. (Courtesy of Christie's Images)
September 29, 2023, 3:11 am
Treasures of the French Rothschild family’s collection to hit the auction block
Exquisite fine and decorative art objects dating back centuries — and even millennia — will be up for sale in live and online sales at Christie’s in New York on October 3 to 17
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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