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Carpaccio’s National Gallery close-up

Upcoming lecture

Ecclesia and Synagoga at Baltimore’s Walters

“They are like my children”

MC (CXXV) Escher

Washington Post Magazine, which matched colorful prose with inspired design, dies at 36

Polymath masterclass

Thanksgiving in Rotterdam

Impolitely asking Judaism its age

Painting a more-realistic Jerusalem

The art of political spam

Stuck to the golden frame

Several discoveries underpin Botticelli show

Vermeer’s veneer

Facebook séance

Not all Samaritans are good

Netflix’s iconoclastic ‘Man vs. Bee’

Power, by the seat of your pants

The Jewish Sistine

Guestbook

Whistler’s Irish Catholic model

Straight lines

Silent treatment

New grants confront ageism at museums

Cosmic fake news

Making cents of Ukraine

USIP opens a multimedia exhibit

Ironically, this museum missed the memo on Covid

Museum-misspeak

How art can improve your health

Cubist communion

Sandwiched between church and state

Smithsonian exhibit downplays Jewish-American scientific achievement

MFA Boston show tackles “real photo” postcards

...Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of (kosher) rum!

Lost in translation

Passover reflections of a new parent

Turin shroud sings a timely ode

Coming to my census

Below the Blue Period

The biblical origin of “Keep my wife’s name out your f***king mouth.”

Art of a feather

Most museums neglect Purim but celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on social media

Queen Esther’s swoon

The American bat mitzvah turns 100

Well hatched

Its name is not Asher Lev

Princeton censors Jewish artists exhibit

Whoopi whoopsy

The Maus that roared

Covid youth envy

The Low Countries glow in Boston

Clash of the Titians

Through the Venetian looking glass