Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Sketches Are Coming to America

Click Here to Read: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Sketches Are Coming to America: A new exhibition opening next month at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, explores the Italian Renaissance master’s preparations for his famous ceiling frescoes by Sarah Kuta on the Smithsonian website on February 20, 2025.
The Creation of Adam.  Michelangelo  (1475–1564).  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Famed Jewish expressionist Ben-Zion Weinman will be spotlighted in a NYC exhibition for the first time in 25 year

Click Here to Read: Famed Jewish expressionist Ben-Zion Weinman will be spotlighted in a NYC exhibition for the first time in 25 years “Ben-Zion: Hineni – I Am Here” will be on view at Brooklyn’s Maor Art Gallery for five weeks, beginning Saturday, Feb. 1By Jackie Hajdenberg  on the Jewish Telegraphic Agency website on  January 28, 2025.

Artist Ben-Zion Weinman (1915) in the Russian Empire.  Author Unknown.   Public Domain.

A new ‘Merchant of Venice’ production challenges anti-Jewish tropes by doubling down on them

Click Here to Read: A new ‘Merchant of Venice’ production challenges anti-Jewish tropes by doubling down on them. A “contemporary, spirited” version of Shakespeare’s play opens off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company By  Joseph Strauss November 20, 2024.

Shakespeare’s comedy of the Merchant of Venice.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons