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Untitled
The iconography in Pichhadze’s paintings from the 1980s defies easy definition. This untitled work incorporates both abstract and figurative elements. The framed “nature” scene with its butterflies…
Yad Vashem Children’s Holocaust Memorial, Jerusalem, Israel
In 1976, Safdie was appointed by Israel’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority to design a museum at Yad Vashem devoted to the 1.5 million children who were murdered in the Holocaust…
Jewish Boys
Segalove mines her own life for personal narratives as a source for her feminist, conceptual, video, and performance art. Jewish Boys, a photograph of text, tells an anecdote about her first day in a…