Lawrence Fine: 3 books

The Jewish mystical tradition is still speaking to us.[Spirituality] is, first and foremost, a yearning to connect to the deep essence of things, a sense that there is a layer of existence that lies concealed beneath the surface of perception. It is this same quality that is reflected in the mystical...

Every year Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts scours the world to find old master paintings to market. Discoveries are made in the most unlikely locations and can reveal startling stories. Past owners such as Adolf Hitler emerge. Twenty fully illustrated paintings constitute our latest adventures and a number of their tales will change the way you forever regard the history of art.

As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals...