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Chicago's "Bean" Artist's Unusual Response to Anti-Semitic Graffiti

Chicago “Bean” Artist’s Shocking Response to Anti-Semitic Graffiti

If you’ve visited the Windy City anytime since 2006, chances are you’ve squinted at your distorted image in the great “bean,” officially known as “Cloud Gate,” the iconic work of sculptor Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park. Or maybe you’ve seen it the Jerusalem version, a smaller, similar piece in the courtyard of the Israel Museum. […]

An Extraordinary But Little-Known Jewish Filmmaker Explores the Nature of Cinema

The Little-Known Jewish Filmmaker Exploring the Nature of Film

Brooklyn-born avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs has been testing the boundaries of cinema for six decades. His first film “Orchard Street” (1956) portrays the vanishing Jewish immigrant population on the Lower East Side in 27 minutes. Meanwhile, “Star Spangled to Death” is seven hours of found footage that questions the mythology of America, begun in 1956 […]

Eva Hesse, The Extraordinary Sculptor Who Died at 34

Eva Hesse, The Extraordinary Sculptor Who Escaped the Nazis then Died at 34

Minimalist art is characterized by a kind of machine-made reductiveness, a movement transgressive in its simplicity. So what would post-minimalism look like? Just check out the breathtaking work of the late Eva Hesse. Born to observant Jews in Hamburg, on this day, January 11, in 1936, Hesse escaped Nazi Europe via kindertransport, eventually settling with […]

Another Astonishingly Talented Jewish Painter Who Was Killed by the Third Reich

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Chicago “Bean” Artist’s Shocking Response to Anti-Semitic Graffiti

The Little-Known Jewish Filmmaker Exploring the Nature of Film

Eva Hesse, The Extraordinary Sculptor Who Escaped the Nazis then Died at 34

The Painter Charlotte Salomon Killed Her Grandfather. Then the Nazis Killed Her.

A Sculptural Tribute to Israel’s Tragic Summer

Painter Marc Chagall’s Fantastical Life, On Screen

Chinese Art With a Jewish Twist (Or, Jewish Art With a Chinese Twist)

Rube Goldberg is an Adjective

The Woman Who Turned Boxes Filled With Junk Into Great Art

The Greatest Soviet Jewish Artist You Never Heard Of

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