As I was walking up and down the front lobby of the Jewish Community Center preparing for the Jewish Light's 16th annual Unsung Hero Awards ceremony on Sunday, Oct. 26, I could not help but notice and re-notice the artwork that hung on the walls. All...

This is the second in our ongoing series on “Becoming the Sea,” the monumental new Anselm Kiefer exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum. If you missed our first story, which introduced the artist and the Jewish and St. Louis roots behind the show,...

When I think of art with themes of leisure, I think of Claude Monet and his garden of water lilies in Giverny, Max Beckmann and his characters relaxing and frolicking at the beach, and George Seurat’s “Bathers at Asnieres.” The art of leisure...

This month, the Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) will debut "Anselm Kiefer: Becoming the Sea," its most ambitious solo exhibition in years and certainly one of the largest. Opening to the public on Oct. 18, the show features five monumental paintings by...

(JTA) — Two 17th-century paintings have been taken off the auction block after a Holocaust art restitution organization determined that they had been looted from a German Jew’s collection in France during World War II. The two paintings, believed...

The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum’s immersive exhibition “Hate Ends Now: The Cattle Car Experience” runs Sept. 10–14. While organizers expect strong attendance, the Museum notes that plenty of tickets remain available for Saturday,...

(JTA) — After multiple failed attempts, Argentine police have recovered a painting that the Nazis looted from a Dutch Jewish art dealer during the Holocaust. Dutch journalists first spotted the painting, “Portrait of a Lady” by Giuseppe Ghislandi,...

(JNS) -- Law enforcement agents in Argentina on Tuesday raided a house south of Buenos Aires in search of a suspected Nazi-looted painting that surfaced online recently, but the object had been removed by the time they arrived, the El País newspaper...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. For Barbra Streisand fans in search of a metsiya, opportunity has arrived in the form of an auction of what’s being...

Several years ago, I interviewed Andrew Newman, a member of the John Burroughs School faculty, about his work on what some call “Plastic Islands”—vast patches of ocean and river pollution composed mostly of floating debris. Newman is a professional...

The Art Gallery at Congregation B’nai Amoona’s new exhibit will feature the works of multi-media artists Cheri Hoffman and Cindy Larimore, ceramicists Beverly Aroh and Lisa Korenblat, painter Jerry Summers, and metal sculptor Dale Dicker. The...

One of the more fun stories to tell are the ones where we find a Jewish link—or in this case, multiple Jewish links—hidden inside a major public event. These are the stories that surprise even the most plugged-in members of our community. At the Jewish...