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Tikkun Ha-Olam (Repair of the World) is from Benjamin’s Finding Home series, in which the Bombay-born Jewish artist raises questions about what and where “home” is, while addressing issues such as…
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Siona Benjamin
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2000
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In 2001, Nathanson decided she wanted to explore points of connection between abstract art and Jewish ideas. She and Arnold Eisen (then a professor at Stanford University; later chancellor of the…
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Jill Nathanson
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New York, United States of America
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2005
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Poster of Houdini’s escape act from a galvanized-iron milk can filled with water and secured by massive locks.Harry Houdini (1874–1926) was born Erik Weisz in Budapest and immigrated with his family…
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Harry Houdini
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1908
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Cabbalistic Sphere, a sculpture made from polished aluminum, is one of Kaish’s many works inspired by ancient Jewish texts. Some of her works with spiritual and metaphysical themes are abstract…
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Luise Kaish
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New York, United States of America
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1975
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Bruskin explored the intersection of his Jewish and Soviet identities in art that took the Soviet Union’s obsession with iconography and slogans in a different and subversive direction. In a series of…
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Grisha Bruskin
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New York, United States of America
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1988