“Jewish Wedding” By Jozef Israëls (1824-1911),1903

Norman Rockwell’s ‘Saying Grace’ headlines the top 10 most expensive works of art sold at international auctions in December. 

Here’s a look at the top 10. 

The company that makes Legos has landed at the center of a social-media firestorm after Chinese artist Ai Weiwei complained that it refused to supply a bulk order of the toy bricks for his art.

Ai said he wanted to use the bricks for an exhibition on free speech at Australia’s National Gallery of Victoria. The museum attempted to place an order but was told by the company that it “cannot approve the use of Legos for political works."A post on Ai’s Instagram account said:

"As a powerful corporation, Lego is an influential cultural and political actor in the globalized economy with questionable values. Lego’s refusal to sell its product to the artist is an act of censorship and discrimination.”

A free-speech advocate who was imprisoned by the Chinese government, Ai suggested that Lego was acting under pressure from authorities. The privately held Danish company recently announced that a Legoland theme park will open in Shanghai. 

In response, fans of the artist flooded Twitter and Instagram with offers of Legos, and Ai said he was setting up drop-off points for donations. He also posted a picture of Legos that had been left inside a car on a street in Berlin, where he is serving as a visiting professor at the University of the Arts.

Fans Flood Artist Ai Weiwei With Offers Of Legos

Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time – Joshua Koffman

This is a JMN Poster (Jewish Multiracial Network) aimed at advancing Jewish diversity through community building and empowerment with Jewish people of Color and Jewish multiracial families.

My new vignette illustration for LA NACION’s Ideas section (an Argentine daily newspaper) 30/08/2015 I have drawn it for the article about museums and their mission. What do we mean when we say “museum”? Today, museums have turned into places of experimentation, entertainment, shopping, education and appreciation of other forms of art. © GOSIA HERBA 2015

Unique Original oil painting on canvas of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv by OriDvir (3500.00 USD) http://ift.tt/1znSzWR

Café Schmus, the Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany by NOVONO

Source: Ken Lee 2010 (flickr)

Marilyn and Marlene

Photo by Milton Greene, 1955

Glamorous❤Vintage❤Soul

Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964).

Historian of Jewish life in medieval Egypt wins MacArthur ‘genius award’: http://dlvr.it/CJHfz3