Iran’s Latin American Resurgence
Riding the pink wave.
August 2, 2022
How Jews Made the Art World Modern
“What would have become of us,” asked Picasso,“if Kahnweiler had not had a business sense?”
After moving to Paris from Germany in the early 20th century, a Jewish businessman named Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler took up art dealing and did much to promote the genre known as cubism. “What would have become of us,” Pablo Picasso would later ask, “if Kahnweiler had not had a business sense?” Jonathan Karp reviews a new book by Charles Dellheim that aims to understand, and put into context, Kahnweiler and other Jewish dealers who had an outsized role in creating the world of art as we know it today:
August 2, 2022
How the Stasi and KGB Fostered Germany’s Neo-Nazi Movement
A mission in which a young Vladimir Putin was involved.
An Anti-Semitic UN Commissioner Admits to Lobbying Congress and Otherwise Exceeding His Mandate
The U.S. can take concrete steps in response.
How Jews Made the Art World Modern
“What would have become of us,” asked Picasso,“if Kahnweiler had not had a business sense?”
During the First Crusade, Jews Did Not Go Like Lambs to the Slaughter
The theological and literary history of one of Europe’s first great outbreaks of anti-Semitic violence.