This is the Forward’s coverage of the visual arts, including painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, and crafts.
Visual Art
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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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Art How a ‘wise man of the shtetl’ evaded Soviet repression and antisemitism to achieve international fame as an artist
For a time, Ilya Kabakov was the only artist from the Soviet Union to have a successful career in the West as well as within the USSR
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Art Why’s a microwave baking matzo? And why does that 400-year-old menorah have a lightbulb?
Artist Mark Podwal's woodcuts bring a fresh take on 16th century images to Eldridge Street
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