Visual Arts
by Elizabeth Heubeck | Aug 30, 2018 | Art, Arts & Life, Books, Film & TV, Museum, Music, Performing Arts, The Arts, Visual Arts
Charm City’s autumn arts lineup offers something for everyone. There’s a lot to love about the fall. The oppressive heat and the you-can-cut-it-with-a-knife humidity ease up; summer getaways have left folks feeling recharged and ready to socialize again; and the... read more
by Elizabeth Heubeck | Jun 1, 2018 | Art, Arts & Life, JBiz, The Arts, Visual Arts
Some of these profiled artists received highly specific training to pursue their endeavors. Others fell into them. For those who earn their living from their art, most agree it’s getting increasingly harder to do so. Nevertheless, all feel passionately about their... read more
by Liz McMahon | Jun 1, 2018 | Art, Arts & Life, JBiz, The Arts, Visual Arts
Like mother, like daughters: An eye for art is in the genes. When Rachel Rubin was 12, her mother added one more piece of business to their already-bustling household. Joanie Young, single mother of two daughters, cut hair in the kitchen of their Pikesville townhouse.... read more
by Simone Ellin, Associate Editor | Jun 1, 2018 | Art, Arts & Life, JBiz, The Arts, Visual Arts
One of Baltimore’s most successful nonprofits turns 18! Randi Pupkin keeps a copy of “The Little Engine That Could” on the coffee table in her spacious, art-filled office. The classic kids’ book reminds her of how far Art with a Heart, the nonprofit she started out of... read more
by Josefin Dolsten, JTA | May 4, 2018 | Arts & Life, Books, The Arts, Visual Arts
NEW YORK (JTA) — In 2008, famed comic book artist Neal Adams and Holocaust historian Rafael Medoff teamed up to create a comic about Dina Babbitt, a Czech Jewish artist forced by the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele to paint watercolors of Roma prisoners in Auschwitz. They... read more
by Lisa Shifren | Apr 25, 2018 | Art, Arts & Life, The Arts, Visual Arts
When he was 11, in the midst of World War II and all of the bleak reports trickling out about the fate of European Jewry, Jordan B. Chadrow says he heard breaking news on the radio about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He never forgot it. The incredible courage involved... read more
by JTA | Mar 21, 2018 | Art, Arts & Life, Museum, The Arts, Visual Arts
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen NEW YORK (JTA) — I have roamed the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Egyptian wing many times, marveling at sarcophagi, statues of Horus and Ra, and portraits of young men on ancient panels who gaze back at visitors, looking shockingly familiar and... read more
by Martha Thomas | Mar 5, 2018 | Arts & Life, Film & TV, The Arts, Visual Arts
A Westminster native, Brian Levin is an independent filmmaker who recently returned to the Baltimore area after working for more than a decade in the entertainment industry in New York and Los Angeles. Levin has produced and written for film (“Flock of Dudes”), TV... read more
by Alex Holt | Feb 8, 2018 | Arts & Life, Museum, The Arts, Visual Arts
What kind of courage and fortitude compels some individuals to stand up to evil even when it means placing themselves in grave danger? A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Maryland honors a group of diplomats from nine countries who risked everything to save... read more
by Josefin Dolsten, JTA | Jan 25, 2018 | Art, Arts & Life, The Arts, Visual Arts
NEW YORK (JTA) — This city bears a special significance to Israeli-Belgian cartoonist Michel Kichka. A visit here in the early 1980s helped launch a career in which he would draw political cartoons that appear in newspapers around the world. Kichka was living in... read more
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