In 1960, French Culture Minister André Malraux commissioned a painting from artist Marc Chagall to modernize the ceiling of ...

In his 97 years Marc Chagall, the great modernist painter of the early 20th century, defied every expectation as to where his childhood passion for art would lead him. Indeed, in spite of poverty, two ...

“Pain is depicted there with serenity,” said Pope Francis of his favorite painting, Marc Chagall’s White Crucifixion. He’s right. The 1938 painting, which Chagall, then living in France, produced in ...

If you hold your arms out like the crucified Jesus before you, you can just touch both edges of Marc Chagall’s Exodus (1952–66). It’s an intimidating canvas to stand before, not just because of its ...

SUSAN GOODMAN (Senior Curator, Jewish Museum in NY): Chagall grew up in a shtetl in Vitebsk, in Belarus, and his family was Hassidic. Many of the images that we see throughout Chagall’s life derive ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chagall: The Emissary of Light — now due to launch in January at the Pompidou-Metz to mark the museum’s 10th ...

Marc Chagall, “Over the City” (1914 – 1918) oil on canvas, 139 × 197 cm, National Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (© Adagp, Paris 2018) Chagall had witnessed first hand the outbreak of the Bolshevik ...

When most people think of modern painter Marc Chagall, they likely think of lovers flying through the sky and folkloric village scenes; scenes of suffering do not often come to mind. However, during ...

When people of the theater want to write about something in their industry that troubles them, they usually switch the setting to a different branch of the culture. In the Lynn Nottage play “Clyde’s,” ...

There is an interesting and telling gesture and declaration of love and admiration, and the conscious sign of choosing his artistic path being led by the highest possible professional standard, the ...

The Jewishness of Jesus has seldom been rendered more clearly in art than in the crucifixion scenes of Marc Chagall. Of the 31 paintings and 22 works on paper in “Chagall: Love, War and Exile” (on ...

His work has given more pleasure to more people than almost any other modern artist, but was Chagall actually any good, asks Richard Dorment. Marc Chagall, Paris ...