How Jewish is it?
The Jewish Museum occupies a 1908 French Renaissance chateau on Fifth Avenue. Originally the home of the banker Felix Warburg, in 1944 the mansion was given to the Jewish…
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The Jewish Presence: Abstract Expressionism at the Royal Academy
This Autumn, a major exploration of Abstract Expressionism, the art movement that made New York the capital of the art world in the 1940s and 1950s, is on show at the…
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Leon Golub at the National Portrait Gallery
An issue dedicated to social justice must begin with reference to Leon Golub, an exhibition of whose portraits can currently be found on show at the National Portrait Gallery.…
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Nicholas Serota On His New Tate
I first interviewed Sir Nicholas 20 years ago and, looking back, he seems to me barely to have aged. Perhaps his face has just got a little craggier. Tall and slim, he was wearing…
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A Salt Bridge
In 2011, I represented Israel at the Venice Biennale. While setting up my exhibition in this historic city of canals and bridges, the idea came to me of creating a physical link…
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Radicalism and Conformity: Jewish Collectors of New Art
I was asked to write an article on Jewish art collectors in England. For a few seconds I felt tempted to reel off a list of names of the most prominent art collectors,…
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