Francis Bacon's painting 'Three Studies of Lucian Freud' sold for a record $142,405,000 at Christie's Auction House in New York on Tuesday. Christie's says the work sold after six minutes of fierce bidding. (Nov. 13), 2013

When Sophie Tucker began singing this song written by Yellen & Pollack in 1925, the Jewish experience in America had included many mothers dealing with privations to care for their families, all the while passing down values that their tradition holds dear. Whether or not you have a “Yiddishe Momme”

The Maccabeats have also incorporated images of Jewish survival and solidarity through the decades, from that German image of a menorah in a window sill surrounded by Nazi flags, to the 1933 American Jewish Congress march against Nazism, to the 1987 march for Soviet Jewry in DC. There are also plent...

Doron Langberg is an American painter. Langberg paints in the style of genre painting and portraiture and addresses issues of gender and sexuality by making love and desire a shared experience through the surface and subjects of his paintings.Doron Langberg (Israeli, born 1985).

This is a big piece. I found Christiane's photo and knew I had to paint it! PHOTO REF: CHRISTIANE VLEUGELS SAMPLES ON DEVIANTART.COM AS L-ART-EN-ROSE

Flash Mob introduces the RijksMuseum in Holand at a mall and re-enact a painting of renowned Dutch painter Renmbrandt. The slogan 'Our Heroes are Back' is used to announce that, after an absence of one decade, all major pieces in the Rijksmuseum's collection are back where they belong. This is what...

Finding and formulating his own distinctive style and method of painting in the early 1990s, Tomasz gradually abandoned commissioned work and devoted himself fully to painting in his studio. "Before I even had a collection of paintings to speak of", Tomasz says: "A British art publisher grabbed the ...

People around the world have interacted with the stories of the Torah almost exclusively through the written word. Without the aid of illustrations, readers have relied on the power of their imaginations to visualize the dramas that unfold throughout the Torah. Several years ago, Jewish-Chilean a...

In Spring 2018, five speakers selected from the Collaboratory Network--Gamal Palmer, Carine Warsawski, Rabbi Lori Shapiro, Dr. Sharon Weiss-Greenberg, and Arya Marvazy--worked with ELI Talks to hone and effectively present their own stories of risk-taking at a storytelling event for the May 2018 gat...

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, hello Chanukah! Our last homage to a Piano Man went so well, we thought we'd celebrate one of our most joyous holidays with a tribute to another timeless entertainer, the great Sir EltonJohn himself. ChagSameach! You don't have to be a LatkeMan to join in -- just grab you...