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Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, known for dots and pumpkins, dies at 97

Kusama, who was candid about her mental health struggles, said New York gave her neuroses. Around 1977, a few years after returning to Japan, she voluntarily entered a mental hospital.

Artist Yayoi Kusama poses for a photograph with her artwork "Love arrives at the Earth Carrying with it a Tale of the Cosmos" at the Tate Modern gallery in London
Night Work (see Saturday).

Jerusalem highlights: August 14-20

"The Castle of the Pyrenees" a painting by famous Belgian artist Rene Magritte is seen on a wall as a laborer on a ladder prepares the Israel Museum of Jerusalem for a re-opening.

Belgian collector lends rare René Magritte work to Israel Museum during painting restoration

Previously undiscovered tomb of an individual named "Paser," found at the ancient Theban necropolis, July 24, 2026.

Previously undiscovered ancient Egyptian tomb found at Theban necropolis on Nile's west bank


Jewish heiress abandons claims over priceless painting stolen by Nazis

The painting, by French impressionist Camille Pissaro, is one of the many works stolen by the Nazis during their occupation of France in the Second World War.

La Bergere rentrant des moutons (Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep), by Camille Pissarro, 1886.

Art panel recommends return of old painting to heirs of Holocaust victim

The decision to return the painting, worth between €15m-€30m, will be made by the Dusseldorf city assembly next month.

The administrative court of Düsseldorf

Van Gogh painting to be shown in public for first time

Titled A street scene in Montmartre, the painting depicts a man and woman, strolling arm in arm past a ramshackle fence with a windmill in the background.

Sotheby's Paris employees pose with the 1887 painting of a Paris street scene "Scene de rue a Montmartre" by Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh which will be presented to the public for the first time after spending more than a century behind closed doors in the private collection of a French family, Fr

Amsterdam mayor wants city's museum to return $22m Nazi-looted painting

“Returning this artwork will mean a lot to the victims and is important for acknowledging the injustice perpetrated,” Halsema wrote.

Tourists stand near a disputed Wassily Kandinsky painting at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, July 10, 2019.

Trump’s legacy lives on in Haifa artist’s unique portraits

Iddo Markus paints 150 portraits of the 45th US president

Iddo Markus paints hundreds of paintings of former US President Donald Trump

“Outsights Represents Our Latest Investments,” Says Ofer Levin Regarding a New Volume of ‘Broad Horizons’

Seascape in Tel Aviv, 1930s | The Levin Collection

Fifty fascinating facets

Matan Sacofsky’s artwork brings Jerusalem to life on canvas and video


Johan Feder: A Businessman with A Sensitive Heart of an Artist


Behind the Glass Booth: Art and Eichmann’s trial

The paintings that showed the horrors of the Nazi war criminal will be analyzed for Int’l Holocaust Day.

Crematorium II in Auschwitz-Birkenau 1945 by artist and Holocaust survivor Yehuda Bacon

Igal Ahouvi Art Collection launches online platform

More private collectors are beginning to unfurl some of the pieces of art they have so lovingly gathered from all corners of the world for our remote, Internet-based viewing pleasure.

(Clockwise starting top left) Works by Moshe Gershuni, Yayoi Kusama, Tsibi Geva, And Gili Avissar