Ava Sayaka Rosen's TARO::TORA, created during a yearlong fellowship at the JCC East Bay, is simultaneously an art piece, a spiritual tool and a call to connect with nature

4 artworks sell for more than $50 million each; extensive collection went on the block after couple unable to agree on valuation in acrimonious split

Downgrade by curators at Museo Nacional del Prado comes after years of questions over attribution of Jesus painting sold at record-setting auction

Kambiz Derambakhsh, known for sketch of faceless everyman, won acclaim and had his art published around the world before succumbing to virus

Weisel discusses her latest memoir, 'After: The Obligation of Beauty,' drawing on her experience as a daughter to Auschwitz survivor parents

Curator Melina Gitzin Adiram saw her planned exhibit derailed by ethnic violence; she changed focus and now hopes to heal some rifts through art emplaced in residential spaces

Opening Friday, the Jewish Museum's 'Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art' is a testament to survival, despite attempts to eradicate an identity and culture

Tumarkin was an Israel Prize recipient known for the large monument at Rabin Square, as well as artworks displayed around the country and the world

Gregory Israel Abou was told to come in and explain his actions in a video art piece, even though police did not have the necessary okay from state prosecution

In Nazi-occupied France, his Catholic polio-ridden mother hid his converted Jewish doctor father under the floorboards of their apartment and pretended they had divorced