What’s New With Jewish-American Superheroes?

Posted on: October 4th, 2006

"Take a sock at Hitler! Sock your dough in bonds and stamps!" says one comic.

Swastikas And Couches

Posted on: September 27th, 2006

Edmund Engelman's photograph, Entrance of Berggasse in Vienna's 9th District with Number 19 in the Middle, unfolds like a Twilight Zone episode.

Jewish Roaches

Posted on: September 20th, 2006

Cockroaches are not usually associated with Judaism. They might show up unwanted during Pesach cleaning.

Art That Produces, Not Consumes

Posted on: September 13th, 2006

The current show at the Yeshiva University Museum is bizarrely titled.

One Thousand Words Are Worth A Picture

Posted on: September 6th, 2006

Book collectors are often pack-rats that are obsessed with the printed word in all of its manifestations.

Eight Jewish Dada Artists

Posted on: August 30th, 2006

George Grosz's 1944 painting, "Cain, or Hitler in Hell" shows the Nazi leader with his iconic moustache and uniform sitting sadly, mopping his brow.

Painting Trauma And Relief: Hopeful Holocaust Paintings

Posted on: August 23rd, 2006

For American artists, the attacks on the Twin Towers are a particularly difficult subject matter.

Introducing The Mets In Yiddish

Posted on: August 9th, 2006

"When you go back and you think about what it is," Jake Ehrenreich told me over the phone, pausing to put down his cell phone whenever he saw a nearby police car, "it's all about tradition."

Interracial Chalk Drawings And Dances

Posted on: July 19th, 2006

With their own long history of suffering oppression and hate fresh in their minds, many American Jews played important roles in the civil rights movement.

Is Judaism Cool?

Posted on: July 12th, 2006

Much ink and money has been spilt over the topic of "hip Judaism".

Circular Art: Two Eva Hesse Shows

Posted on: July 5th, 2006

Throughout her career, German Jewish artist Eva Hesse (1936-1970) was obsessed with the motif of the circle.

A Jewish Art Primer (Part VI) – Contemporary Jewish Art

Posted on: June 28th, 2006

We have documented 1,800 years of Jewish Art production in the preceding five sections of the "Jewish Art Primer".

Smile And Say Cheese: Children Maimed By War

Posted on: June 21st, 2006

Children playing with dolls generally make good photo ops.

A Jewish Art Primer (Part V) – After The Catastrophe

Posted on: June 14th, 2006

The Holocaust, dominating Jewish Art for much of the late 20th century, is arguably the first form of Jewish Art to penetrate the mainstream cultural dialogue.

The ‘Energizer’ Aesthetic Bunny: Still Painting

Posted on: June 7th, 2006

"When my husband sells a painting, he gets down on his knees and thanks G-d," Kristina told me of her husband, Jules Olitski, at an opening of his work in Washington, D.C.

A Jewish Art Primer (Part IV) – The New Age Of Individuals

Posted on: May 31st, 2006

Contemporary Jewish life has been dominated by the crisis of the Modern, shaping more than anything else the profiles of Jewish Art.

The Middle Eastern Conflict In C-major

Posted on: May 24th, 2006

Barry Frydlender's nearly life-sized photograph Shirat Hayam depicts the August 2005 dismantling of the 16-family Gaza seaside settlement Shirat Hayam under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan.

A Jewish Art Primer (Part III) – Jewish Painting: The Past and Future Collide

Posted on: May 17th, 2006

As the Enlightenment marched across Europe in the form of the Napoleonic conquests, the effects on Jewish Art were unmistakable.

A Jewish Art Primer (Part II) Books To Papercuts

Posted on: May 3rd, 2006

Seldom has a people's cultural expression changed in so short a period of time as the revolution that overtook the Jews with the invention of moveable type and the printed book.

A Jewish Art Primer (Part I)

Posted on: April 19th, 2006

Jewish Art: Any cultural production that utilizes Jewish subject matter and content drawn from;