Figures produced by the world’s leading art auctioneers confirm that 2023 was a testing year for the art market, or, as Christie’s CEO Guillaume Cerutti put it when reconciling the minuses with plusses, a “paradoxical” one.
Jesus was a Palestinian Jew born in Bethlehem. He grew up in Nazareth and was executed as a criminal in Jerusalem. It is because of him that we celebrate Christmas. But it is in spite of him that what we celebrate is the opposite of what he stood for. The different stories of his birth,
Mathew and Luke’s birth narratives are replicated again and again throughout history, presently and most conspicuously in Gaza and the West Bank, as the