Museum
by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Oct 21, 2019 | Arts & Life, Museum
In the early years of the 20th century, Jewish immigrant Simon Pinckovitch delivered milk for a living on the hardscrabble streets of Southside Chicago. “On the way home from his deliveries, he would often pick up scrap metal and rags, and bring them to his backyard,”... read more
by Simone Ellin, Associate Editor | Sep 5, 2019 | Art, Arts & Life, Fashion, Film & TV, Fun, Museum, Music, Performing Arts, The Arts, Uncategorized, Visual Arts
We get it. The end of summer can be bittersweet. The days get shorter, the temps are cooler, school’s back in session and the pace picks up immeasurably. But fall is also a season of great beginnings. The High Holidays mark the beginning of the Jewish new year,... read more
by Simone Ellin, Associate Editor | Sep 2, 2019 | Arts & Life, Fun, Museum, Uncategorized
There’s no denying that Baltimore is a great museum town. With world-class museums such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, the American Visionary Art Museum and The Walters Art Museum, Charm City residents don’t have to leave town to see some of the finest artwork in the... read more
by Tony Glaros | Jul 18, 2019 | Arts & Life, Museum
Museums are treasure troves that curate and codify events through misty portals of the past. Regardless of the subjects on display, they have the collective power to make us confront ourselves. And if we are wise and willing, they provide the fuel to activate our... read more
by Aliza Friedlander | Apr 10, 2019 | Art, Arts & Life, Fashion, Museum, The Arts, Visual Arts
From Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour’s signature sunglasses to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s humble hoodies, what an individual opts to wear makes a crucial statement about their personality and identity. “There are many different ways that clothing signals one’s... read more
by Simone Ellin, Associate Editor | Feb 28, 2019 | Art, Arts & Life, Museum, The Arts, Visual Arts
Esther Nisenthal Krinitz and her younger sister, Mania, were the only members of their immediate family to survive the Holocaust. But Krinitz, a Polish Jew who died in 2001, kept the memories of her parents and siblings vividly alive in 36 hand-embroidered collages... read more
by Karen Chernick | Feb 12, 2019 | Art, Arts & Life, Museum, The Arts, Visual Arts
(JTA) — When French architectural historian Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey left Paris in 1842, his luggage weighed over 100 pounds and his three-year itinerary was ambitious. He was mesmerized by photography — invented just a few years before by a fellow... read more
by Peter Arnold | Jan 25, 2019 | Arts & Life, Museum, The Arts, Visual Arts
Owings Mills resident Yvonne Daniel says her parents, Hermann and Hetty Heuman, never forgot their time in Shanghai. The Heumans were newlyweds when they fled Nazi Germany shortly after Kristallnacht, the infamous “night of broken glass” on Nov. 9-10, 1938, viewed by... read more
by Stephen Silver | Oct 17, 2018 | Art, Arts & Life, Museum, The Arts, Visual Arts
When hearing the name Rube Goldberg, one notion instantly comes to mind: those fun machines that complete simple tasks in overly complicated and humorous ways. Think a ball rolling down a long ramp that hits a series of dominoes, which hits something else, so on and... read more
by Victor Wishna | Oct 5, 2018 | Art, Arts & Life, Museum, The Arts
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (JTA) – The scribbled, shorthand note is faded, but the formal origins of the first modern Jewish state are clear: “H(is) M(ajesty’s) G(overnment) accepts the principle that P(alestine) shld. reconstitute as the Natl. Home of the J(ewish) P(eople) …”... read more
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