This is the Forward’s coverage of the visual arts, including painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, and crafts.
Visual Art
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Film & TV As long as there are movies about Nazis, there will be movies about the art they looted
'Auction,' which concerns the provenance of an Egon Schiele painting, is only the latest film about Nazi-looted art
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Culture One was born Catholic, another was a West Virginia Protestant — now they’re all making Jewish art
A compelling new exhibit focuses on artists who converted to Judaism
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Culture Hidden in Central Park, a modest installation of Holocaust art — but what was it doing there?
A discovery of a memorial to Jewish concentration camp prisoners yields questions of identity, memory and the purpose of art
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Culture In these stunning psalms, everything is illuminated — including the lives of King David and Thomas More
At the Morgan Library, 'Sing a Song' focuses on the role of psalms in medieval life and literacy
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Art For an ‘adventuress’ who memorialized the Holocaust in art, a long-awaited revival
A new exhibit at Indiana University is bringing Anna Walinska's work to a new audience
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Art In 1960’s New York, the past was a foreign country — they sure did things differently there
A cornucopia of Jewish artists populate the pages of 'Everything Is Now,' J. Hoberman's massive survey of New York's avant-garde
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Art How the war changed an artist’s life, his politics — and his painting
Before Oct. 7, Sam Griffin's work was personal and introspective; then he was drafted into the Israeli army
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Culture The towering Jewish critic who taught me to grok art and hate Picasso
After Max Kozloff died at 91, a New York community came together to remember and to mourn
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Fast Forward Why some Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters
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Opinion I’m an Israeli who lives in New York. Here’s why I’m voting for Mamdani
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News How Mamdani became New York’s next mayor, with Jews divided between fierce opposition and fiery support
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Sports It’s so cool that Sandy Koufax was there for that
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Film & TV Israel’s Oscar entry is, once again, about Palestinians
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Yiddish World A German museum aimed to honor Jewish wit. The result is downright demeaning.
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Opinion The three profound Jewish lessons of Mamdani’s astonishing victory
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News Mamdani’s victory divides Jewish leaders one more way: Whether to say congratulations
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