Houses in an Imaginary Landscape

This wall hanging by Saul Borisov depicts Adam and Eve, naked but for fig leaves, not separate beings but still attached to one another, possibly hiding from God after eating the fruit from the…

Micha Bar-Am took this intimate photograph of Golda Meir soon after she became prime minister of Israel. She was the world’s fourth female prime minister and, as of 2022, the only woman to hold the…

This ad for an exhibition at California State University Fullerton was intended as a manifesto. The artist Judy Gerowitz announced that she was divesting herself of “all names imposed upon her through…

Moses Feigin painted both realist and abstract paintings, sometimes mixing both styles in one painting. In the late 1960s, he became fascinated by the world of the carnival, seemingly evoked by the…

Leon Levinstein, widely admired for his street photography, held himself at a distance from the art world and never produced a book of his work. He kept his day job as a graphic designer and went out…

German Chancellor Willie Brandt went down on his knees at the monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on a trip to Poland. He was there to sign the Treaty of Warsaw, a key element of his “Ostpolitik,”…