Ben Katchor, born in Brooklyn, New York, is a cartoonist. Best known for his strip and radio drama series based on the character Julius Knipl, Katchor teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His works appear in the Forward and the New Yorker. Katchor has received the Isaac Bashevis Singer Prize in Literature, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a MacArthur fellowship.
Hecker’s design for the Museum of the History of the Polish Jews (Polin) proposed a complex of two buildings: one a rectangular concrete block and the other a lighter metal and glass structure. The…
The title of this painting, Flight into Egypt, refers to the story in the Christian Gospels in which Joseph and Mary flee with the infant Jesus to Egypt to escape the wrath of King Herod. Rabin, born…
In late 1897, Camille Pissarro, the noted impressionist artist, known for his many landscapes and cityscapes, came to Paris and rented a room in the Hôtel du Louvre, which gave him a good view of the…