“I think for most of us, we’re looking for stability or safety. But life isn’t stable and a surprise is always coming. That’s what makes life, the movement of things.”
“I’ve integrated prayer into these amulets and made them to resemble a pill box, evoking birth control,” says Charlie Schrön. The multimedia exhibition of work by 21 female artists is a powerful rejoinder to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade last spring.
Some Jewish artists are unwilling to be confined to what artist Rachel Libeskind calls the “claustrophobic limbo” of Germany’s past.
Dara Horn’s new novel, Eternal Life, imagines two characters who have made a sacred pact that consigns them to lives that will never end. Tethered to wearying and repetitive perpetuity, they cannot encounter the crossover from purpose to purposelessness that my mother-in-law experienced.
Sala Levin
