Visual Moment | From Mansion to Museum, Imagined Anew
Filled with menorahs, bracelets and word paintings, this museum that reinvigorated an eminent Jewish home becomes a vivid homage to both past and present.
Visual Moment | Water, Water, Everywhere…
A new UC Berkeley exhibition examines the importance of water in Jewish life through paintings, carvings, and containers.
Visual Moment | A Grogger, a Bong and a Pair of Red Shoes
YIVO’s current exhibitions carry visitors back to a lost world through displays of the art, artifacts and accoutrements that formed the essence of Eastern European Jewish life.
Visual Moment | 50 Years, 50 Noted American Jews in the Arts
The array of talent seems endless.
Artist Ben Shahn’s Nonconformity
As a friend of his put it, “These were the works of a famous man, not a famous artist.”
Visual Moment | 50 Years, 50 Noted American Jews in the Arts
Jewish Museum (Jüdisches Museum) Berlin, Germany; designed by Daniel Liebeskind
A Passover Haggadah; drawings by Leonard Baskin
Wrap dress; designed by Diane von Furstenberg
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Visual Moment | The Secret Life of an Art Deco Diva
“She always understood the power of an image.”
The Conversation
“The fall issue of Moment was a treasure trove of just how Jewish Americans might negotiate the impending governmental challenges at home and abroad.”
Visual Moment | Tales of Rifles and Resistance
These are the words of Faye Schulman, who, at age 16 during World War II, fled to the forests outside her hometown of Lenin, Poland, after witnessing her entire family being executed by the Nazis.
This Moment in Art: Draping the Ambassador’s House, Samaritans and More
As we embark on a new year, we can find respite and renewal in the trove of rich and varied museum exhibitions and cultural happenings that are once again burgeoning in our cities.
Visual Moment | Lost & Found: Solving a Holocaust Mystery
Lost and Found exhibit at Yeshiva University's museum traces the story of a photo album smuggled out of Lithuania's Kovno Ghetto, from its original disappearance through the investigation that found the owner's descendants teaching Yiddish in the United States.
Visual Moment | A (Torah) Scribe Goes to Washington
It’s one of the more unsavory parts of the Bible. Lot, after the destruction of Sodom, is seduced by his two daughters, who think they are the world’s sole survivors.