Stories about how we look at Jewish artists and how Jewish artists look at the world.
Stories about how we look at Jewish artists and how Jewish artists look at the world.
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Culture The Jewish musicals that Oscar Hammerstein never got to do
The lyricist and playwright considered writing about dybbuks but spent more time immortalizing the life of a singing nun
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Culture A humongous retrospective honors the glorious career of an iconic Jewish photographer
William Klein’s humor and social conscience have informed his work since the 1940s
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Culture How to get closer to Lou Reed than you ever could in real life
‘Caught Between the Twisted Stars’ features artifacts from every phase of the artist’s career
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Art In ‘Gefilte Fish,’ a metaphor for once and future trauma
In her art, Yuliya Lanina addresses the silence surrounding the Holocaust and the war in Ukraine
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Art In America’s first Palestinian museum, a chance to explore common ground (and mostly avoid politics)
The Palestine Museum US was founded four years ago by businessman Faisal Saleh
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Art Look closely — Sol LeWitt’s art is a lot more Jewish than you think
A new exhibit of the conceptual artist's work illuminates his religious background (even if it's sometimes hard to see)
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Culture Mira Lehr’s art grapples with climate change and environmental destruction. Somehow, it’s still optimistic.
The Miami-based artist sees the rising ocean levels in her own yard. But even as her art shows the dangers of climate destruction, she still has hope we can turn it around.
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Culture How the war already changed the meaning of one artist’s childhood — and her painting
'When they started bombing Kyiv, there was no place left for fantasy,' painter Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi said
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