Dornier Do-24 De La Real Marina Holandesa.

Female Bust, 1936 ~ Pablo Picasso

Sean Raspet • “Texture Map (Normal) (C03),” 2014 • The Critical Resistance Benefit Auction • Aug 12 — Aug 26

It may be summer outside, but this painting is giving us chills. Don’t miss “Discovering the Impressionists: Paul Durand-Ruel and the New Painting” before it closes on September 13. “Lavacourt under Snow,” c. 1878–80, by Claude Monet (The National Gallery, London. Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917)

Synagogue painting #Germany (at Jüdisches Museum Berlin | Jewish Museum Berlin)

Title: Mizrah Artist: Wolf Kurzman, American, b. Ukraine, 1865-1945                           Origin: Ukraine Date: 1903 Medium: Ink and watercolor on cut-out paper Size: 17 3/8 × 14 in. (44.1 × 35.6 cm) Description: “The creator of this masterful papercut was a watchmaker in Podolia (present-day Ukraine), who came to the United States in the 1920s with his five children. Three years after he had cut it, he added the name of his mother Pessya, and the day of her death in 1906. The work mizrah appears in a medallion on the double-headed eagle. Snakes twine around the columns Jachin and Boaz, a common motif in Eastern European Jewish papercuts. Flanking the pillars are two griffins whose origins derive from the guardian cherubim described in detail in Exodus. They were half lion, half eagle, and had human faces.“ Source: Jewish Museum

Frank W. Benson - Summer of 1909

Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time – Joshua Koffman

Moses and the Burning Bush, Moses receives the Tablets of the Law, Moses reading the Torah, Moses at Mount Nebo - Dura-Europos synagogue, Syria, c. 244 CE. Tempera over plaster. One of the oldest synagogues in the world, the Dura-Europos synagogue preserves some of the most precious and unique examples of Jewish art in history. These four portraits of Moses are found on the center of the synagogue’s western wall, above the Torah niche. Note his depiction with a square halo.

Happy Hanukkah!

Synagogue Hanukkah lamp Brass Poland, early 19th century Collection of Yeshiva University Museum Gift of Erica and Ludwig Jesselson This Hanukkah lamp was formerly in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection

Elizabeth Taylor