Philadelphia–born American artist William Anastasi is revered as a pioneer of both Conceptual and Minimal Art. Among his best-known works are Sink (1963), Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (1965), and Six Sites (1966–1967), all of which anticipated and inspired trends in modern art. Solo exhibitions of his work have been organized by P.S.1, New York (1977), Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (1979), the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1979 and 1981), and the Nikolaj—Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center (2001).
This bilingual Yiddish-English cover of a program for a variety show at Irving Music Hall on New York City’s Lower East Side advertises “high class Jewish vaudeville” and bills itself as “the finest…
Though Jacob Steinhardt came to be best known for his woodcuts depicting biblical and Jewish subjects, this print, made during World War I, evokes the horrors he witnessed on the battlefield. Much of…
God no longer speaks
as he did in the days of the Bible,
he no longer shines in the firecloud
over our roof.
Adam and Eve have run into the depths of the garden
from God’s unveiled presence,
as we—we…