The work of Canadian artist Vida Simon has been presented in galleries, at performance festivals, and at other venues in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Italy, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, and Chile. Her installation/performance work combines forms, including drawing, writing, hand-made objects, sound, and gesture. She organizes projects for Souffles, an exhibition and performance space in Montreal.
Born in Córdoba, Spain, Esther Gabay Henriques married Daniel de la Penha, a Spanish merchant in Rotterdam. The family coat of arms appears above the epitaph. Beneath is a low relief of the couple’s…
This setting for Psalm 92 is one example of the innovative music composed by Louis Lewandowski, Samuel Naumbourg, and Salomon Sulzer (1804–1890) for the synagogues of the new Reform movement. Their…
To ward off depression while living as a refugee in France, Charlotte Salomon began telling the story of her life in the form of a drama, in hundreds of gouache paintings. This painting depicts her…