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The Only Corner illustrates Yaker’s ability to depict nature in its varied beauty and to express cultural meaning in his work. The same year he exhibited this painting, Yaker showed a series of works…
In 2001, Nathanson decided she wanted to explore points of connection between abstract art and Jewish ideas. She and Arnold Eisen (then a professor at Stanford University; later chancellor of the…
Years ago, Sujo wrote that the artist is “history’s caretaker,” and that he wished to show “the diversity of drawing as a record of lived experience.” Much of his artistic career has been devoted to…
Traditionally performed on the afternoon of the first day of Rosh Hashanah, Tashlich is a rite in which Jews symbolically cast away their sins by throwing breadcrumbs into a body of moving water…
For three years, Lamm was imprisoned in the Gulag (the Soviet system of labor camps) for applying for an exit visa, and he documented this experience in drawings and paintings. The red banner on the…
Seura Chaya # 1 is one of many photographs that Wilke made of her mother and herself when they were dying of cancer. The two separate series were a continuation of her use of her art to focus on…
Gurvich began increasingly to focus his work on his Jewish heritage after his first trip to Israel in 1955. His paintings depict Jewish life and culture in dreamlike imaginary worlds, in a style and…
Baron’s abstract collages were made from found materials, such as scraps of paper, string, and bits of fabric, which she sometimes found in junkyards. She considered them personal and political…
The Lebanon War of 1982 began on 6 June, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon after repeated attacks and counter-attacks from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) operating in southern Lebanon…
Though Nikel’s style of expressionist abstraction has sometimes been characterized as lyrical abstraction, a style associated with Israel’s New Horizons group, she was not formally connected with any…
