The year is 1975. A woman named Martha Rosler stands in a kitchen surrounded by gadgets, picking up each of them and naming them alphabetically with precise, controlled, angry movements. It’s an indictment of a certain kind of cooking demonstration, performed by the likes of Julia Child, and an indictment of a certain kind of…
Author Ottessa Moshfegh has defied the old warning, “never meet your heroes.” She wasn’t disappointed. Those who’ve read Moshfegh’s second novel, 2018’s “My Year of Rest and Relaxation,” won’t have much trouble guessing who that hero is. Like her book’s unnamed protagonist, who spends a year fettered to her bed self-prescribing medication and binging films…
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. It all started with a joke. Simon Starr, an Australian music producer, band director and bass guitarist, had been living in Israel for six years when he and his family had to return to Melbourne to be closer to aging relatives. Professionally speaking, the timing was not…
The clang of hammer on metal and the roar of a blowtorch can be heard long before you walk into Israeli metal sculptor Yaron Bob’s workshop. Featured prominently in his workshop is a quotation from the Book of Isaiah: “And they shall beat their swords into plowshares.” Bob’s raw material is rockets and mortar shells…
Through Gap’s “Meet Me in the Gap” fall campaign, the 19-year-old Mikaela Strauss, AKA pop artist King Princess is pushing for diversity, and unity across differences. The campaign features a fierce-looking Mikaela sitting alongside 24-year-old hijab-wearing journalist, Noor Tagouri, who tweeted about her involvement with the diversified Gap ad. Proud to be a part of…
(JTA) — A Renoir painting that the Nazis stole from a Paris bank vault was returned to the heir of its owner. On Wednesday, U.S. authorities returned the 1919 work “Deux Femmes Dans Un Jardin” to Sylvie Sulitzer of France, the last remaining heir of her grandfather Alfred Weinberger, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in…
Sometimes, you get contemporary art. And sometimes, contemporary art gets you. Such a visitor to the Serralves Museum in Portugal learned last week after falling into an instillation by Jewish artist Anish Kapoor. “Descent Into Limbo,” Kapoor’s 1992 work, features a circle in the ground painted pitch black. Despite signs and guards warning guests not…
A federal appeals court on Monday said the Norton Simon Museum can keep two 16th century masterpieces depicting Adam and Eve by the German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder, which had been looted by the Nazis during World War Two. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 3-0 against Marei von Saher, who…
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