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Culture Jewish prophet, trailblazer, iconoclast, inventor of the topless bikini
In Rudi Gernreich's centenary year, a look back at a one-of-a-kind fashion phenomenon
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Art This devastatingly brilliant and unconscionably awful book will delight and appall
Jerry Saltz's hyperbolic 'Art Is Life' is most interesting as a look inside New York City's punditocracy
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Culture He may have been an antisemite, but he knew great Jewish art when he saw it
The exquisite work of Modigliani found an unlikely champion in Dr. Albert C. Barnes
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Art How a teenage photographer captured a vanishing world before the Holocaust
Richard Scheuer's images of ordinary life in 1934 are both unsettling and prescient
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Art Can this noisemaker rattle the world out of its complacency?
Elana Mann's activist art is a mixture of politics and Purim
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Art Back from the dead — the resuscitation of an artwork that wasn’t supposed to last
Like its brilliant creator, Eva Hesse's 'Expanded Expansion' conveys the ephemerality of existence
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Art Meet the artist behind the new Hanukkah postage stamp
Jeanette Kuvin Oren drew from Jewish traditional paper cutting to create a silk artwork for the U.S. Postal Service
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Culture He painted like nobody else — so why haven’t more people heard of Sam Szafran?
The self-taught son of Polish Jewish immigrants is now the subject of a major retrospective in Paris
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Yiddish טשיקאַוועסן: האָספּיץ־וואָלונטירס פֿונדאַציע שענקט שפּײַזקאַרטלעך צו אָרעמע פּאַציענטןTidbits: Hospice volunteer’s foundation donates grocery gift cards to poor patients
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