Title: Mizrah Artist: Wolf Kurzman, American, B. Ukraine, 1865-1945                      

Such a painful experience. These were a set of drawings of #Jewish kids after they were rescued from concentration camps. #OldJewishCementery #Prague #Praha #jewishquarter #History #cometogether (at Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague)

just opened:

“HYSTERIA: Spatial Conversations with Florine Stettheimer”  Rosson Crow

Sargent’s Daughters Gallery, 179 East Broadway, NYC

In this recent body of work, Crow debuts a new technique of Xerox transfers layered with painting on the canvases. Crow has long been fascinated by history and the psychology of interior spaces, and has addressed subjects as varied as French Revolutionary interiors, New York City graffiti and the films of Alfred Hitchcock. This exhibition represents Crow’s response to the paintings of Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944), a New York artist whose paintings date from the 1910s to the 1940s.  Although considered a very important artist of her time, (Marcel Duchamp organized her retrospective exhibition at MOMA in 1946, and she was included in the first Whitney Biennale in 1932) Stettheimer’s works are relatively unknown today as she steadfastly refused to sell or show them in galleries.  Since her death, they have often been dismissed as overly “feminine” and “eccentric” and today Stettheimer remains known mostly to a growing cult of women artists on both sides of the Atlantic who love and claim her influence. - thru May 17

Can’t make it to New York for Matisse: The Cut-Outs? Experience it tomorrow at your local movie theater. Search locations and times near you.

[Image by Andrew Hinderaker for The Wall Street Journal]

Vintage Bermuda postcard designed by Adolph Treidler. 

Elizabeth Taylor

On Wednesday, July 29, over 700 people attended the members’ opening at The Contemporary Jewish Museum (The CJM) for Amy Winehouse: A Family Portrait and the companion exhibition, You Know I’m No Good which are on view through November 1, 2015

MARC CHAGALL - To My Betrothed (1911)

Gouache and oil on paper. 61 x 44.5 cm

Vincent Van Gogh: Casas en Auvers, 1890.

Camille Sitting on the Beach at Trouville

Claude Monet, 1870-1871

Jewish Art in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium

“In the first centuries C.E., Jewish communities could be found in every corner of the Roman empire, from Sardis (Turkey) to Ostia (Italy), from Hamman Lif (Tunisia) to Intercisa (Hungary). The archaeological remnants and literary attestations of more than 150 synagogues throughout the empire make clear that Jews were integral to the urban landscape of late antiquity, well beyond the borders of Roman Palestine. In early Byzantine synagogues, specifically Jewish symbols—shofarot (ram’s horns), menorot (branched lamps), and Torah shrines—might appear alongside pomegranates, birds, lions, and fountains. Asia Minor, in particular, boasted numerous, and often prosperous, Jewish communities. The third-century synagogue in the Roman garrison town of Dura-Europos, like the Christian meeting house and the shrine devoted to the Persian god Mithras that stood just yards away, was adorned with sumptuous painting. Splendid murals with narrative scenes from the Bible covered the synagogue’s walls; painted tiles of zodiacal symbols ornamented its ceiling. Plaques with dedicatory inscriptions give some indication of the individuals and families who funded the building of such synagogues. ”