New York City-born artist Jill Nathanson has been exhibiting her work since 1981, both in solo shows and group exhibitions. Her paintings can be found in many private and public collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art and Tufts University. In addition to Seeing Sinai, Nathanson has created another biblical commentary in paint, New Translations, a meditation on Genesis 1.
This terra-cotta figurine from Lachish is very schematic, and the rider’s legs are not shown. The rider cannot represent an average person because people—even kings—more often rode on donkeys and…
Jacob Epstein, “Buying a Newspaper,” from Hutchins Hapgood’s The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York. Epstein was best-known for his sculptures, but he also created the…
Literature cannot survive, cannot develop freely and expansively, if it depends on an underdeveloped reader, if it satisfies the spiritual-aesthetic needs only of those who have no access to the…