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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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Art How painting the Torah brought the director of ‘The Chosen’ closer to Judaism
On my iPad, I’ve been drawing a visual response to this week’s Torah portion and the Midrash about it. I do this every week and, over the last few years, I’ve made five sets of these drawings. The first set started on a whim. I had learned some odd stories about the first parsha Beresheit….
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Sports Today’s American Jews finally have their era’s Sandy Koufax
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