This is the Forward’s coverage of the visual arts, including painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, and crafts.
Visual Art
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	News Leftist group exhibits art on Israeli streets to avoid censorship
The art collection depicts war as experienced by kids, including Palestinians — a topic organizers say deserves more empathy among Israeli Jews
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	Art He photographed athletes and he photographed nudes — André Steiner contained multitudes
Just in time for the Olympics, Paris is celebrating the work of Jewish photographer André Steiner
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	Books Whose art is it anyway? Inside the cultural battle between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters
Since the war broke out, debate has raged over the political meaning of art
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	Art From legendary photographer Ralph Gibson, a brand-new lens on Israel
In Gibson's exhibit 'Sacred Land,' a first-time trip to Israel proved to be a deeply spiritual experience
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	Art The 1964 Venice Biennale was a landmark in art history — was it rigged?
Amei Wallach's 'Taking Venice' revisits a real-life caper starring Robert Rauschenberg and Leo Castelli
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	Art The Bob Ross of the Borscht Belt is finally getting a New York City show
Morris Katz’s ‘instant art’ will be on view at YIVO
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	Art Fiercely committed and as unapologetic as ever, this 92-year-old artist is having a moment
In a new memoir and exhibit, Audrey Flack confronts the misogyny and antisemitism of the art world
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	Art In concentration camps, Jewish artists painted in secret, hid their work and traded art for food
Website launched for Yom Hashoah shows art made by Jews in Nazi camps and ghettos during World War II
 
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