Douglas Nelson had a 33-year-long career in finance before deciding to reverse direction and become a full-time artist. It’s been a liberating but challenging experience.Nelson, a former Oak Park bank ...

Was it just because of a book Yaacov Agam came across at age 12, Irving Stone’s Lust for Life, which tells the story of Vincent van Gogh, and triggered his interest in art? Was it his unique ...

Agam Berger, an IDF surveillance soldier who was kidnapped on October 7 and freed last month, says it was hard while in captivity to hear about the debate in Israel over the costs of a deal to ...

Agam Berger, an Israeli military spotter, was held hostage by Hamas for nearly 16 months. She sustained her faith throughout her captivity, relying on limited resources to practice Judaism. Despite ...

(AP video shot by Ami Ben Tov) Israeli soldier Agam Berger waves to the crowd as she is handed over to the Red Cross by masked Islamic Jihad militants at the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza City, ...

The exhibition Picelj and Friends, marking the centenary of Ivan Picelj’s birth, presents the multifaceted role of Ivan Picelj in the history of Croatian art and culture in general.