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A ‘2001’ exhibit that leaves them wondering — like Kubrick would have wanted
When “2001: A Space Odyssey” debuted in 1968, 15 months before the first lunar landing, audiences didn’t know what to make of it. Its early reception was far from fawning. Director Stanley Kubrick‘s daughter Katharina recalls storage boxes full of mail from viewers requesting ticket refunds. But the film’s fortunes soon changed. Theaters in major…
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Remembering Jason Polan, the Jewish, Taco Bell-loving artist who captured New York
Possibly the most quintessentially New York artist of this century was a Jewish millennial from Michigan. Jason Polan, who died of cancer on January 27 at the age of 37, didn’t just make the city’s people his subjects, and its streets his studio. The city was also the spirit animating his work. Polan’s best-known project…
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March 2: Washington D.C.: Jodi at the AIPAC Policy Conference
Forward editor-in-chief Jodi Rudoren will be a featured moderator at this year’s AIPAC Policy Conference, which will take place March 1-3 in Washington, D.C. The panel, called “Israel in the U.S. Media,” is on Monday, March 2 from 2:15 to 3:15 p.m. To find out how to become a friend of the Forward and get…
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What does Michael Bolton’s book tell us about Ukraine?
On Sunday, the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump was upended by news that former White House national security adviser John R. Bolton’s forthcoming book, “The Room Where It Happened,” makes explicit the link between the president’s release of security aid to Ukraine and an investigation of his 2020 opponent Joseph R. Biden. The…
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The thoughtful grace of Kate Middleton’s Holocaust survivor portraits
A U.K. exhibit commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz includes works by an artist more often seen in front of the camera than behind it: Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge and an avid amateur photographer. Middleton contributed two portraits to the Royal Photographic Society’s exhibit of photos of Holocaust survivors with…
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February 20: Manhattan: Museum at Eldridge Street hosts ArtSee: Photos from the Jewish Daily Forward
Join the Museum at Eldridge Street on February 20 at 11:00am for a special family program where they’ll take a look at selections from the exhibition Pressed: Images from the Jewish Daily Forward. Children will get the chance to examine photographic prints and historic pages from the Forward newspaper and make their own works of…
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The weirdest — and Jew-iest — moment from the Grammys
In a largely somber Grammys — brimming with mourning, green skulls and a profusion of fire — there was one outstanding moment of unexpected (if unintended) levity. In a star-studded and treacly musical theater montage, Camila Cabello, Cyndi Lauper, Common, Ben Platt and a crew of arts high school students serenaded departing Grammys producer Ken…
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What we talk about when we talk about Holocaust drawings
What are we looking at when we look at drawings? The art critic John Berger said that drawing was like discovery. “Each mark you make on paper is a stepping stone from which you proceed to the next, until you have crossed your subject as though it were a river.” In other words, drawing is…
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Meet the woman with the most Oscars ever
Edith Head had the look. She clothed Hollywood’s most glamorous, gifting Dorothy Lamour her trademark sarong, cloaking Kim Novak in a pristine white winter coat (collar popped), and making the grubby Great Depression look snappy with striped and checkered suits for Paul Newman and Robert Redford in “The Sting.” Her knack for understanding the fusion…
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Germany to honor 1700 years of Jewish culture in 2021
“German society, we have an increasing anti-Semitism here,” said Andrei Kovacs. “You can feel it as a Jew. I can feel it on my skin.” But Kovacs, a Romanian immigrant to Germany, has a plan to combat that bigotry: He’s the executive director of a government-backed effort to highlight the deep roots Jews have in…
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Beloved Marc Chagall painting, stolen in the ’90s, resurfaces at Israeli auction
TEL AVIV (JTA) — “Where’s the Chagall?” asked a visitor to this city’s Gordon Gallery on a January morning in 1996, hoping to glimpse one of the prize lots being auctioned days later by the gallery. The small Marc Chagall painting, titled “Jacob’s Ladder,” was prominently on display; a gallery employee walked the prospective buyer…
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