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Essay The Pitch Process Earlier this week, Miriam Libicki wrote about the artistic process and progression in her most recent collection of graphic essays, Toward a Hot Jew, which will be… Miriam Libicki October 21, 2016
Essay Finding Jack Levine Earlier this week, Samantha Baskind wrote about some of the artists she interviewed for Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists. In the first chapter of her newest… Samantha Baskind August 13, 2014
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Pascin by Joann Sfar Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJoann Sfar’s biography of the Jewish modernist painter Pascin (Julius Mordecai Pincas) will soon be available in the U.S. with… Naomi Firestone-Teeter September 25, 2013
Essay Why I Put a Map in The Bronfman Haggadah Earlier this week, artist Jan Aronson wrote about how she became an illustrator and her illustrations for The Bronfman Haggadah. She will be blogging here all week… Jan Aronson March 8, 2013
Essay How I Became an Illustrator Earlier this week, artist Jan Aronson wrote about her illustrations for The Bronfman Haggadah. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and… Jan Aronson March 6, 2013
Essay A Departure From the Traditional: The Bronfman Haggadah Jan Aronson is the illustrator of the The Bronfman Haggadah published by Rizzoli. Born in New Orleans, New York-based artist Jan Aronson has had more than seventy solo… Jan Aronson March 4, 2013
Nonfiction Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890 – 1940 Stephen Brown, with an essay by Richard R. Brettell
Visual Arts The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow, eds.
Visual Arts They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust Mayer Kirshenblatt; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Essay Fiction and Museums Earlier this week, Allegra Goodman wrote about being a world artist and writing “Jewish” fiction. She has been blogging all week for… Allegra Goodman July 2, 2010
