Posted April 14 2008
Crunching the Jewish Art Numbers
For those of you who haven’t stumbled across the great toy in Google Trends, I highly recommend it. I’ve crunched the numbers below to try to illustrate where Jewish art stands. GT allows you to search up to 5 items, and “see how often they’ve been searched on Google over time.” In the graph below, red is Christian art, yellow is Islamic art, blue is Jewish art, and green is religious art. I know with Jewneric’s help we can raise Jewish art to the top, but does anyone have ideas on whether these numbers matter much?
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2 Comments currently posted. 
Ezra Butler says:
Menachem Wecker says:
Great questions, Ezra. I do think Holocaust restitution cases have brought more attention to art owned by Jews, but I am not sure that constitutes Jewish art. Most of the looted works were not by Jewish artists (think about the recent high profile Klimts owned by the Bloch-Bauers). I’d love to tell you that I think more and more people are turning to Jewish art, but I don’t think that is true at all. Kitaj’s recent death certainly brought Jewish art into the mainstream media for a short, frenzied period. Perhaps that had an impact…
What was the reason for the surge in the last quarter of 2006 - did it have anything to do with Jewish Art from the Holocaust? As well, what are the reasons for the large peaks in the news in the end of 2007?