Forward with the Arts
In Nazi-looted art case at Supreme Court, one (brief) moment of levity
The case Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation regarding a Nazi-looted painting was mired in legalese (save for one moment).
For decades, a Jewish family has sought the return of their beloved painting — can the Supreme Court make that happen?
In 1939, A Munich-based art dealer forced the sale of a Camille Pissarro painting. The Cassirer family has been trying to get it back ever since.
In Baltimore, a Jewish museum captures the precarity — and beauty — of American Jewish life
“A Fence Around The Torah: Safety And Unsafety In Jewish Life” explores how what can make one Jew feel safe can make another feel unsafe.
From Basra to the Chelsea Hotel — My father’s journey
Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin, Andy Warhol, William Burroughs and Bob Dylan all lived here once. George Chemeche remembered those days.
In an overlooked comic from the early 1970s, the most Jewish superhero story ever told
‘Fourth World,’ with its blend of Bible and history, was the magnum opus of Jack Kirby, born Jacob Kurtzberg in 1917 on New York’s Lower East Side.
Jewish photographer behind iconic Pulitzer-winning images hangs up his lens
Then again, make that two definitive photos: The year before, Forman also won the Pulitzer for spot news with a harrowing image of a woman and her goddaughter falling out of the sky in his photo, “Fire Escape Collapse.”
The Holocaust robbed them of their stories; this artist is bringing them back to life
In “When I Grow Up,” Ken Krimstein brings back the stories of six Jewish teenagers from the lost world of Yiddishuania.
A mensch of an architect, full of whimsy, genius and morality
Architect Richard Rogers, who co-created such buildings as the Pompidou Center in Paris, has died at the age of 88.
The most powerful Jewish artist you’ve never heard of
A powerful MOCA exhibit of Maryan explores the Holocaust, immigration, and trauma
6 decades of Bob Dylan’s art on exhibit in Miami
Bob Dylan may be famous for songs like “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Like a Rolling Stone” — but the Nobel laureate has never been content to just write, sing and play his guitar. In addition to selling whiskey, making movies and once even starring in a Victoria’s Secret commercial , the ever-shapeshifting artist has also made paintings, collages and sculptures. More than 180 of these pieces are now on display at a new exhibition at Miami’s Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, along with handwritten song lyrics and archival pieces.