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Art installation of arms coming out of a wall holding body covered in sheet with one arm exposed.

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Shachar began to mold and cast human body parts from life early in his career. Here, hands carry the body of a young girl wrapped in a sheet, perhaps alluding to the Virgin Mary supporting the dead…

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Photograph of brick building exterior with skywalks over a smaller building below with a metal and glass roof and a tall monolith in the background.

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

Freed deliberately designed the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to create a sense of disorientation and alienation, even terror, in keeping with the museum’s subject matter. Though it is not based on a…

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Painting of two faces close together, one of whom has a crescent moon above their head.

The Moon and Sleep

Simeon Solomon’s The Moon and Sleep was inspired by the Greek story of Endymion, a beautiful youth beloved of Selene, the goddess of the moon. Zeus granted Endymion ageless immortality, subjecting…

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U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

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