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Art How come you’ve never heard of these Jewish artists?
This exhibition says it’s partly because they’re women
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Art The Nazis recorded everything they stole. One artist is mining their archives for something new.
Lisa Oppenheim’s solo exhibition inverts Nazi archival photos to make the absence of stolen objects and stolen lives feel tangible
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Art A new New York law requires museums to label art looted by Nazis — but is it constitutional?
Some legal scholars say the law is an example of ‘compelled speech’ and may violate the First Amendment
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Art How a Holocaust survivor from Slovakia became a modern-day Chagall
93-year-old Tibor Spitz found a second (or maybe a third) life as an artist
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Art New York state wants museums to label their Nazi looted art. Will anything change?
The new law aims to educate museum-goers about the history behind certain artwork. But it doesn't account for the labyrinthine world of restitution.
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Theater Two very Jewish stories, separated by more than 3,000 years
Hal Linden and Bernie Kopell star in Ed. Weinberger's 'Two Jews Talking'
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Art In Israel, an artist confronts his demons — and urges us to face our own
The Haifa-based Shahar Sivan has created a forest full of nightmares
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Art How Jews have confronted the seemingly eternal scourge of hatred
Two new exhibits in New York grapple with the ravages wrought by antisemitism
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