Atlanta-born sculptor and painter Luise Kaish is known especially for her bronze and steel sculptures. Among her many honors and awards are a Tiffany Foundation grant (1951), a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship (1959), and a Rome Prize fellowship from the American Academy in Rome (1970). Kaish’s work included commissions from synagogues and churches, including arks and ark doors. She is a professor emerita of sculpture at Columbia University.
Léon Gimpel made improvements to the technology of the autochrome that shortened the exposure time needed for a color photograph to be taken. His color photographs are rare documents of everyday life…
I was in the midst of a large group of people who were there, close to a hundred people, among them scholars and heads of communities. And two men, who knew adjurations and many things, approached the…