Educated in architecture in Italy during the 1930s, Romanian-born Saul Steinberg became an extraordinarily popular American artist after World War II through his regularly featured drawings, cartoons, and covers for The New Yorker magazine. Steinberg’s inventive enigmatic modernism found expression in masks, drawings, collages, and watercolors that incorporated letters, text, and self-reflections. He exhibited his work in European and American galleries, in a traveling retrospective that began at the Whitney Museum in 1978 and another that opened at the Morgan Library and Museum. He also published more than a dozen compilations of his drawings, beginning with All in Line (1945) and ending with The Discovery of America (1992).
During the holiday of Sukkot, four plant species are used in rituals in the synagogue. One of these is the etrog (citron). While containers to protect the etrog later became more common, they were…
Simeon Solomon’s Carrying the Scrolls of Law, like other pre-Raphaelite paintings, explores the themes of spirituality and religious devotion. Solomon also explores the beauty of the young man…
Passover is coming soon and I ask you to invite me to the seder. Let me in!
I won’t cost you very much. I don’t eat kneydlekh! Don’t serve me maror, the bitter herbs—I was born with them!
Do not ask…