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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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Art Indisputably, a Jewish genius — but also a pariah and a bumpkin
Steve Stern's 'The Village Idiot' fictionalizes the life of the Belarusian painter Chaim Soutine
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Art Was Morris Hirshfield’s Jewishness responsible for his fall from grace in the art world?
A new retrospective on the surrealist artist grapples with his obscurity after a dazzling debut embraced by Picasso, Duchamp and Peggy Guggenheim
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Art A risk-taking photographer who addressed his own suffering by documenting the sufferings of others
David 'Chim' Seymour captured images of refugee children, as well as Audrey Hepburn and Gina Lollobrigida
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News A Long Island synagogue’s renovations uncover a massive work of art
At the High Holidays, many Merrick Jewish Centre congregants will get a first look at a forgotten treasure
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