This is the Forward’s coverage of the visual arts, including painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, and crafts.
Visual Art
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Culture One of the world’s greatest artists painted my great-grandmother’s portrait — but who was Selma Fontheim?
The search to find the history behind two portraits painted by Edvard Munch
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Culture How American Jews have managed to survive a history of antisemitism and bigoted fanaticism
'Acts of Faith,' an exhibit at the New York Historical Society, explores the history of religion and prejudice in America
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Art A very untraditional bat mitzvah tallit holds the key to tradition
For her daughter's bat mitzvah, artist Mindy Stricke wove a symbolic web of tradition and ancestry
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Art After the massacre, a profound abyss that one Tel Aviv tattoo artist is trying to fill with art
Inbal Hoffman used holes as a motif in her art; now they have taken on new meaning
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Art A new golem is born with a new mission — protecting vulnerable communities and cultural history
Michael Rakowitz creates monuments from the destruction of other monuments
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Art Haunting, poignant, unsettling, riveting — images from the precarious lives of artists in a diverse Israeli city
The art in 'Tales and Textiles' at JCC Manhattan reflects divergent backgrounds and similar experiences
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Art What do Jewish, Christian and Muslim artists talk about when they talk about ‘Genesis’?
A groundbreaking exhibit tells the story of creation through multiple perspectives, with eye-opening results
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Art How a Jewish ‘witness of hell’ navigated a landscape of American terror
Born Philip Goldstein, painter Philip Guston was haunted by the tragedies of the past and the horrors of the present
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