2 museums trace Israel’s peace process

Published on April 10, 2013

Which experiences led former prime ministers Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Rabin — once considered hawks — to attempt to make peace with Israel’s Arab neighbors?

Jewish Institutions take Part in European Night of the Museums Saturday Night

By Ruth Ellen Gruber
Published on May 17, 2012

L. A. Bargains at Rent.Food.Broke.

By Annie Korzen
Published on October 24, 2011

Visit a Museum and Skip The Art

By Annie Korzen
Published on October 12, 2011

Bill would put West Bank museums under Israeli control

Published on July 21, 2011

A bill that would place museums in West Bank settlements under Israeli law passed its preliminary reading.

Swiss report: Museums should investigate Nazi-era art

Published on January 26, 2011

A Swiss government report has concluded that the country's museums should more intensively investigate whether they hold artwork looted during the Nazi era. The report, published this week by the Federal Culture Office, summarizes the results of a survey of 551 Swiss museums on the state of their provenance research, according to the Claims Conference, the main Jewish organization on restitution issues. The Swiss government commissioned the survey in 2008, in advance of the of the 2009 Holocaust Era Assets Conference in Prague. The outcome of the conference is also summarized in the newly released report.

Arts in L.A. Calendar June—August

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin
Published on June 12, 2008

Assume everyone is Jewish

By Tom Teicholz
Published on March 1, 2007

Los Angeles is not only a city where Jews present their identity through Jewish museums; it is also a place where Jews have had an unparalleled role in shaping the cultural identity of the city.

7 Days in the Arts

By Keren Engelberg
Published on June 22, 2006

This week in Los Angeles: REDCAT's International Children's Film Festival; Iris Chang Memorial Essay Contest; "Elements" exhibit at the Finegood Gallery; "Enrico Donati: One of Each" at galerie yoramgil; Summer Sunset Services from Malibu Jewish Center and Synagogue.

Tommywood - Summer School With Schimmel

By Tom Teicholz
Published on June 15, 2006

Paul Schimmel, the Museum of Contemporary Art's (MOCA) chief curator, wants us to spend our summer looking back -- 50 or so years to around the time of his birth, and to the city where he grew up, New York, to focus on the remarkable work of a young, poor and not-yet-famous Robert Rauschenberg, who was gathering junk and detritus from his life (clothes, family photos, fabric) and incorporating them into paintings that then became three-dimensional constructs, which Rauschenberg called "Combines."

Sondheim Knows How to Book ‘Em

By Robert David Jaffee
Published on February 16, 2006

Harry Sondheim, a retired criminal prosecutor for the L.A. County D.A.'s office, was traveling in Holland when he simply noticed an artifact that appealed to him. "They had a museum, Der Weg, which means the Weighing House. They had an artist named Bicart. I bought some postcards with depictions of Jewish ceremonies on them. You can't buy those postcards any longer."

Artful Solution to Nazi Looting

By Tom Tugend
Published on May 26, 2005

After six years of litigation and diplomatic battles over Nazi-looted art, in a legal case stretching from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to Vienna and back, the Austrian government has agreed with Maria Altmann, an 89-year old widow, to let arbitration decide who now owns masterpieces that once belonged to her family.

Destination: Strasbourg

By Anthea Gerrie
Published on December 20, 2001

It's not every day a grown woman gets her cheeks pinched by another woman who's tickled pink to see her eating, but then Yvonne Haller is no ordinary French restaurateur.