Visual Moment focuses on exhibitions, films, art, architecture, events or stories with compelling visual content and a connection to Jewish subjects or issues. Recent columns have featured such divergent topics as the avant-garde fashions of mid-century designer Rudi Gernreich and the saga of a family photo album that was smuggled out of the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania in 1943. Scroll down to see examples of this engaging feature.
In many ways, Edith Halpert embodied the spirit of American pragmatism, which is how she explained herself: “I either had to stagnate, which was a thing I dreaded, or go ahead, and the only way to go ahead was to do something beyond what I was doing."...
A combination of misanthropy and compassion for your fellow humans, and at least some ability to draw and write—this is what makes a cartoonist....
Going back to his early line drawings, you can see that Sendak liked to populate the world with Sendaks....
