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Diane M. Bolz

Washington, D.C., United States

Arts Editor at Moment Magazine

Articles

  • 3 weeks ago | stljewishlight.org | Diane M. Bolz

    This story was originally published on Moment.com. Sign up for the Moment Minute. Editors Note: Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka was among the major Jewish artists the Jewish Light told you about last month as part of the new exhibition “Roaring: Art, Fashion, and the Automobile in France, 1918–1939,” at the St. Louis Art Museum, but her Jewish story runs much deeper.

  • 1 month ago | momentmag.com | Diane M. Bolz

    Enigmatic, glamorous and unapologetically ambitious, Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka took Paris by storm in the 1920s with her glossy portraits and sensual, stylized nudes, soon becoming one of the leading artists of the Art Deco era. A model of the “modern woman,” strong, savvy, bold and independent, Lempicka understood the power of personality, celebrity and reinvention. “There are no miracles,” she has been quoted as saying.

  • Nov 25, 2024 | momentmag.com | Diane M. Bolz

    It all began when two friends were chatting over a drink in the lobby of a Paris hotel. It was the fall of 2018, and American photographer Ralph Gibson and investment manager Martin Cohen, who share an interest in music and photography, were in the city to attend an international photo fair. Cohen, who is a longtime member of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and has made numerous trips to Israel, asked Gibson if he had ever been there.

  • Nov 22, 2024 | momentmag.com | Diane M. Bolz

    Calling it “Unmistakable, raw antisemitism,” CNN’s chief political correspondent Dana Bash spoke Sunday night of the harassment she has faced online and in person in the wake of her reporting on the Middle East since October 7. Bash spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, during Moment’s 2024 benefit and awards dinner where she received the Robert S.

  • Sep 30, 2024 | momentmag.com | Diane M. Bolz

    Afternoon sunlight reflects on the boat’s hull. The red and white flag behind its small wooden cabin flutters in a light breeze. From any vantage, it’s an undistinguished vessel—an ordinary workboat—but its history is anything but ordinary. It is, in fact, remarkable. In 1943, the boat was one of numerous small crafts that participated in Denmark’s exceptional and heroic rescue of its Jewish population during the Holocaust.