Deganit Berest is one of Israel’s most prominent multidisciplinary artists. She is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Minister of Education and Culture Prize for Visual Arts (2005) and the Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture (2007). She lives in Tel Aviv.
Jules Adler’s many paintings depicting the everyday lives of the working-class in Paris and labor strikes earned him the nickname “the painter of the humble.” Les Las (The Weary) was inspired by a…
Édouard Moyse’s painting portrays the Grand Sanhedrin, the Jewish high court assembled by Napoleon in 1807 to ratify the answers of an assembly of Jewish communal leaders to twelve questions submitted…
Mrs. Levy made it her business to be our eyes and ears, the supplier of all information and news. Her job would be easy this time—she had the good fortune to live directly across the street from…