Raffi Lavie played a prominent role in shaping avant-garde art in Israel. A founder of the 10+ group in 1965, he was a central figure in the “want of matter” school, promoting collage and the use of inexpensive materials such as plywood. Many of his paintings are characterized by the erasure of images, with scribbles, carvings, and broad strokes of color. Lavie’s work has been featured in more than eighty solo exhibitions and was the subject of a special retrospective at the fifty-third Venice Biennale in 2009.
The ceiling and wall paintings in the baroque-style Kupa Synagogue in Kraków, which dates from 1643, were damaged during World War II and in a pogrom that occurred in August 1945 immediately following…
This medal for St. Stephanskirche in Vienna provides an example of the style innovated by its engraver Jacques Wiener (1815–1899), in which the exterior of a building appears on one side and the…
In 1840, thirteen leaders of the Jewish community in Damascus were arrested and imprisoned because of an accusation of ritual murder. Appeals from the local Jewish community reached Jewish communities…