Painter, muralist, and printmaker Fanny Rabel was born Fanny Rabinowich in Lublin, Poland. After spending several years in Paris, she immigrated to Mexico in 1938 and took night classes in drawing and printmaking. In 1942, Rabel began studying at the National School for Painting and Sculpture in Mexico City and started working relationships with painter Frida Kahlo and muralist Diego Rivera. Rabel found inspiration while studying under Kahlo and gained experience in mural painting when she assisted Rivera with his 1948 murals at Mexico’s National Palace. Rabel became a member of the Popular Graphics Workshop and the Mexican Salon of Fine Arts, producing a diverse range of expressive works in print and on canvas.
Dos naye lebn (New Life) was a Yiddish literary and political monthly founded and edited by Haim Zhitlovsky and published in New York. Among the topics debated in its pages was the question of whether…
Inscribed weights, late 8th or 7th century BCE. These weights, used on a balance scale, correspond, from lightest to heaviest, to (a) payim, (b) netsef, (c) one shekel, and (d) two shekels. (The…
The Meeting, Schulz’s only surviving oil painting, obliquely explores a theme he returned to many times in his writing and art, namely, sadomasochism, this time in the context of an encounter between…