Whitney opens first New York retrospective of Roy Lichtenstein in over 30 years
'Roy Lichtenstein: Like New' surveys six decades of the Pop pioneer's work and presents him as a prophet of today's copy-and-repost image culture.
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The Met's 'Past Continuous' presents Lee Krasner as Pollock's equal, not his footnote
More than 120 works, most of them by Krasner, trace the Brooklyn-born daughter of Jewish immigrants and her husband side by side in the Met's first show devoted to either artist.
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Steve Reich marks his 90th year with a new work inspired by the Book of Proverbs
The Colin Currie Group premiered 'In All Your Ways' at the Edinburgh International Festival, opening a season of birthday concerts across Europe and North America.
Read the story →New Galilee exhibition puts Huqoq's ancient synagogue mosaics on public view
'Secrets of Huqoq' at Kibbutz Ginosar shows the original Samson mosaic and finds from a 1,600-year-old Jewish village near the Sea of Galilee.
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Philip Glass's 'Lincoln' symphony premieres at Tanglewood for America's 250th
The Boston Symphony Orchestra gave the first performance of Glass's Symphony No. 15, which sets Abraham Lincoln's own words for baritone and orchestra.
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Yaacov Agam, father of kinetic art, dies at 98 weeks after winning the Israel Prize
The Rishon Lezion-born artist, whose works seem to move as viewers walk past them, created landmarks from Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Square to La Défense in Paris.
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Jane Yolen, author of Owl Moon and The Devil's Arithmetic, dies at 87
One of America's most prolific children's writers, Yolen published some 450 books, including a Caldecott winner and a Holocaust novel still taught in classrooms.
Read the story →Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor who built the New World Symphony, dies at 81
The longtime San Francisco Symphony music director, grandson of Yiddish theater stars, leaves a legacy of recordings, new music and a training orchestra for young players.
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LACMA opens the David Geffen Galleries, its new home for the permanent collection
Peter Zumthor's long-awaited building, named for the music and film mogul whose $150 million pledge anchored its funding, adds 110,000 square feet of galleries in Los Angeles.
Read the story →Israel Museum shows the Great Isaiah Scroll at full length for the first time since 1968
For its 60th anniversary the Jerusalem museum unrolled the 2,100-year-old Dead Sea Scroll, the only complete biblical book found at Qumran, for a rare four-month display.
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Isaiah Zagar, mosaic artist behind Philadelphia's Magic Gardens, dies at 86
Zagar covered tens of thousands of square feet of Philadelphia walls with mirror and tile mosaics and turned two empty lots into a beloved public art space.
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Frederick Wiseman, who filmed how American institutions really work, dies at 96
Over nearly six decades the documentarian made more than 40 films about schools, hospitals, courts and cities, starting with the landmark Titicut Follies.
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Judy Chicago's first Dutch solo show puts her Jewish roots at the centre
Amsterdam's Jewish Museum and London's Serpentine presented 'Revelations', built around a long-hidden illuminated manuscript the feminist artist made alongside 'The Dinner Party'.
Read the story →PBS series traces five centuries of Black and Jewish American history
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History, hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., brings together rabbis, scholars and artists to explore an alliance and its strains.
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