Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the visual arts, including painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, and crafts.
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Culture Birds, barbed wire, darkness and sunlight — the artistic challenge of making a Torah mantle for a Holocaust scroll
Jerri Zbiral wanted to create a Torah mantle that would make an artistic statement while also commemorating history
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Culture Can Jews still embrace Rembrandt — even if his love for the Jewish people is only a myth?
As a new volume attests, the Dutch painter's philosemitic reputation may have been greatly exaggerated
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Culture ‘An ethereal presence’: An artist gives the women of the old Lower East Side new life
At the Eldridge Street Synagogue, artist Adrienne Ottenberg pays homage to turn-of-the-century Jewish women
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Art He made 613 paintings of commandments and 915 collages of proverbs — but who’s got room to show them all?
Like RIchard Dreyfuss in 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind,' Archie Rand feels compelled to create
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Art After the war broke out, Sara Erenthal kept making art — in the name of peace
The artist's new exhibition situates viewers in a big, diverse protest against the Israel-Hamas war
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Fast Forward Deborah Kass’ iconic ‘OY/YO’ sculpture covered by Palestinian flag in Brooklyn Museum protest
The piece was not damaged during the weekend demonstration, which also included banners displayed inside the museum building
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Art ‘I have my own planet’: An Argentine Jewish artist makes a psychedelic, exuberant US debut
The Jewish Museum’s latest exhibit, ‘Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte!,’ is a joyful survey of a 1960s icon
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Art Can art help us process the atrocities committed by Hamas on Oct. 7?
In different ways and in different eras, the work of three artists imagines the unimaginable
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