What do Jewish, Christian and Muslim artists talk about when they talk about ‘Genesis’?
A groundbreaking exhibit tells the story of creation through multiple perspectives, with eye-opening results
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She was an outsider, a Jew and an iconoclastic artist — kind of like Picasso
A new exhibit in Paris explores the friendship between Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso
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How a Jewish ‘witness of hell’ navigated a landscape of American terror
Born Philip Goldstein, painter Philip Guston was haunted by the tragedies of the past and the horrors of the present
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How a ‘wise man of the shtetl’ evaded Soviet repression and antisemitism to achieve international fame as an artist
For a time, Ilya Kabakov was the only artist from the Soviet Union to have a successful career in the West as well as within the USSR
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The Met will start policing its collections for looted art. Holocaust restitution paved the way
The New York City museum announced an initiative to research provenances and return artifacts to countries including Nepal, Egypt and India
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To be a Jew in Berlin is to be a stranger in an all-too-familiar land
Jason Langer's photographs confront the contradictions of ordinary life playing out on sites of mass murder
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In a joyous and colorful reimagination of Noah’s Ark, a vision for a new kind of Judaism
Yulia Iosilzon's paintings transform Jewish symbols into a vibrant, morphing vision of the world
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Why’s a microwave baking matzo? And why does that 400-year-old menorah have a lightbulb?
Artist Mark Podwal's woodcuts bring a fresh take on 16th century images to Eldridge Street
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His art is chock-full of American pop culture references, so why is it more popular abroad?
Jonathan Horowitz uses icons like Madonna and Michael Jackson to take on authoritarianism and antisemitism
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A is for apron belly, B is for birthmark: How one Jewish artist celebrates all kinds of bodies
Tyler Feder wants to normalize a more accurate depiction of society as it truly is, rather than focusing on one small slice of it
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A nuanced and disquieting vision of Europe after the Holocaust
Thirty years ago, photographer Jill Freedman sought to document sites of destruction and the resurgence of Jewish life
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Yiddish אַ קאָנפֿערענץ וועגן ייִוואָ קומט פֿאָר אין איר געבוירן־שטאָט — ווילנעA conference about YIVO takes place in its birthplace — Vilnius
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