At Art Basel in Miami a few weeks ago, it rained a lot, and some critics scorned the commercial excess with extra sharpness. For Basel art in Washington on a recent morning, the sun lit the season’s ...

The Memphis-born American Jewish novelist Steve Stern, 74, has long been inspired by Jewish folklore and a dream-like Yiddish literary tradition in the vein of I. L. Peretz, Itzik Manger, and Lamed ...

Chaim Soutine wasn’t very good at friendship. Though his friend and fellow artist Amedeo Modigliani championed his genius, Soutine—who hated to be indebted to anyone—returned the favor after ...

On Saturday the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will open the largest retrospective of Marc Chagall's work in many years. Why Chagall now, when his influence appears harder to detect than ever?

As a symbol of culture, freedom, and modernity, the city of Paris held a magnetic attraction for artists from across the globe during the early decades of the twentieth century. One of the defining ...