Rosh Hashanah 2015: The Jewish New Year Begins

Can’t make it to New York for Matisse: The Cut-Outs? Experience it tomorrow at your local movie theater. Search locations and times near you.

[Image by Andrew Hinderaker for The Wall Street Journal]

Farkash Gallery, Vintage Israel poster, Old Jaffa, Israel

Marc Chagall, The Fiddler, 1913

Brad Wilson’s Affinity II series of animal portraits || See gallery

Photographer Brad Wilson, based in Los Angeles, started his Affinity series of animal portraits in 2010. These are the second part of this series. Brad takes the pictures in a photographic studio, just feet away from the animals. Some, such as the mountain lion and tigers, are deadly. 

‘Flannel flowers and brass tray’, 1931 - Grace Cossington Smith (1892–1984)

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This poster advertising the 1934 Levant Fair in Tel Aviv, and glass lantern slide showing the Fair at night, both from our collection, convey the modern architecture and the excitement of this international exhibition which aimed to create economic ties between Israel and foreign countries. .

How does your garden grow? 

Not very tall, if it’s full of dachshunds.

This peculiar illustration comes from the guest book of the Hewitt family, the founders of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The book spanned more than 50 years and included signatures and more involved artwork and poems.

Lacking context or explanation, “Dachshund Nursery” was probably done by Caroline King Duer, a frequent visitor to the Hewitt’s Ringwood Manor, in 1896. Learn more from cooperhewitt‘s blog.

Orthodox Boys (1948). Bernard Perlin.

In anticipation of the BBC’s upcoming documentary A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol, several of his friends and acquaintances give a rare glimpse into the life and reality of the elusive artist.