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Heddy Breuer Abramowitz

Jul 3, 2026, 5:42 PM

A Yankee Doodle Dandy with a Hyphen Celebrates 250 and Looks Ahead

A couple of weeks of marvelous sounds, a new museum, exciting artwork, and capping off with the announced agreement to formally allocate the land for the permanent US embassy in Jerusalem, signed by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar and...

Stephen M. Flatow

Jun 22, 2026, 7:35 AM

From Casals to Cage Fights

From JFK and Pablo Casals to Trump and UFC, the White House guest list has become a revealing measure of presidential taste, national dignity and America’s idea of greatness. There was a time when the White House knew the difference...

Jun 17, 2026, 5:53 AM

Israel’s Dybbuk

I studied Ephraim Moses Lilien's black-and-white print, Dybbuk. Not knowing who Lilien was, I did what most curious people do—I Googled him. Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874–1925) was a Polish-Jewish Art Nouveau illustrator, photographer, and printmaker. I recommend exploring his work...

Jun 15, 2026, 6:35 PM

Beshert – A Review

Written by Gary Enkin Directed by Lewis Rose 2025 - 19 minutes Winner of the 2025 Pears Short Film Fund award, Beshert is a perfectly crafted 20-minute drama. Set in Leeds, Oliver Simon is approaching his bar mitzvah while having been set...

Jun 10, 2026, 4:07 AM

Tony winners should stay shtum on politics!

It’s awards week, so it must be political soapbox time. Again. At the Tony Awards on Sunday, America’s joyous celebration of all things theatre, the Best Supporting Actor winner, The Lost Boys star Ali Louis Bourzgui, decided to devote...

Gabrielle Bartelse

Jun 4, 2026, 10:42 PM

The Culture of Boycott

When art betrays its own freedom

Yardaena Osband

May 29, 2026, 1:03 PM

‘Chorus of the Hebrew slaves’ from a gilded opera box

Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy. (David Glazer)

After so much destruction, art is restoring my faith in humanity's capacity for beauty, from Verdi's music to the menorah's hammered gold (Beha'alotcha)

May 26, 2026, 9:03 PM

The Breath Between: Consciousness, Evanescence, and the Art of Re-Entry

The evanescent self

By Joe Nalven + Claude + Gemini This essay revisits my earlier essay on consciousness. The process we often use to describe the experience (from our own first-person awareness to investigators who seek to measure it) requires that evanescent memory...

May 19, 2026, 3:28 PM

Art Collecting As Humanistic Duty

THE ART OF SURVIVING & SURVIVING OF ART Part II. Art Collecting as a Humanistic Duty Part I can be read here. In mid-March 2026, at the annual TEFAF Maastricht art fair of the best fine art on the market, a very...

May 17, 2026, 4:51 PM

The Art of Surviving and Surviving of Art

The Monuments Men recovering Vermeer's The Art of Painting and Drost's Man with Plumed Red Beret. May 1945. The Leiden Collection. With kind permission.

History Thriller about Art, Good and Evil In mid-March 2026, at the annual TEFAF Maastricht art fair of the best fine art on the market, a very meaningful acquisition of the great work by the fantastically talented pupil of Rembrandt...

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