All the hot stuff from Broadway to MOMA
Last spring, art curator Michael Auping had the rare experience of witnessing a collision between political power and artistic critique in the newly opened Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. Auping was guiding a group of national museum machers, which also happened to include Henry Kissinger, through the sprawling retrospective he had organized of […]
Some people call her film daring, others dangerous. First-time filmmaker Anat Zuria admits that "Tehora," her hour-long documentary about Jewish family purity, is meant to provoke. But she sees greater peril in keeping quiet about a subject that shapes the lives of Orthodox Jewish women. "Tehora" (Purity) focuses on observance of taharat hamishpacha (family purity), […]
Some people call her film daring, others dangerous. First-time filmmaker Anat Zuria admits that "Tehora," her hour-long documentary about Jewish family purity, is meant to provoke. But she sees greater peril in keeping quiet about a subject that shapes the lives of Orthodox Jewish women. "Tehora" (Purity) focuses on observance of taharat hamishpacha (family purity), […]