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Kenneth Hoffman: Executive Director of the Upcoming Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience
Allison Futterman
July 23, 2020
Slated to open in New Orleans in the first quarter of 2021, the museum will explore the lives of Jewish Southerners from 13 states.
Austrian museum reaches settlement over Nazi-looted artwork
Jewish Journal
April 8, 2016
Vienna\’s Leopold Museum said on Thursday it had reached a settlement over five Nazi-looted works of art in its collection that will return two of them to the heir of their original Jewish owner, a victim of the Holocaust.
Passing an art legacy on to the next generation
Jewish Journal
April 17, 2015
During the lengthy visits she would have with her great-uncle and great-aunt, David and Rivka Labkovski, at their home in South Africa, Leora Raikin — who was a young girl at the time — recalls these relatives being a bit eccentric.
Nazi-looted trove contains lost works by Matisse, Dix
Jewish Journal
November 5, 2013
Previously unknown paintings by Henri Matisse and Otto Dix are among a vast trove of Nazi-looted art found in a Munich apartment that includes works by some of Europe\’s most celebrated artists, German experts said on Tuesday.
Art without hate: Established, emerging artists join Anti-Defamation League for L.A. ‘ArtWorks’ gala
Jewish Journal
September 6, 2013
Artistic inspiration doesn’t traditionally come from a place of absence. Still, the nearly 50 artists donating works as part of the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) centenary anniversary campaign are having no difficulty creating out of a concept centered around the word “without.”
Drawing new interest to the Talmud
Jewish Journal
June 4, 2013
Last August, in conjunction with the beginning of a new seven-and-a-half year cycle of “daf yomi”—the daily study of a double page of the Babylonian Talmud that is observed by tens of thousands of Jews worldwide—Nicholls inaugurated an online “Draw Yomi” project that day-by-day results in a hand-drawn response to what she has studied.
Sculpture in San Diego sun
Jewish Journal
May 29, 2013
Downtown San Diego is home to plenty of famous attractions — including the San Diego Zoo and The Old Globe Theatre — but, for art lovers, the city also boasts an impressive collection of post-World War II works by internationally recognized Jewish artists like Sol LeWitt, Louise Nevelson and Richard Serra.
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