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1 month ago | 
momentmag.com | Frances Brent |Dan Freedman |Megan Naftali |Rachel Rosenfield
Arts & Culture, Highlights, Latest Of course, every heartthrob is unique, and they each appeal to different fans in their own way, but overall, it has never been a better time to be a hot Jewish man in the public eye. Continue reading
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1 month ago | 
momentmag.com | Frances Brent
What did Esther look like? That’s what we wanted to know as we concocted costumes for the Purim fair when I was a girl. The illustrated stories we read in religious school were useless, with their flattened renderings.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
momentmag.com | Frances Brent
Franz Kafka’s niece Věra Saudková, the daughter of Ottla, the youngest and favorite of his three sisters, began her recorded Shoah testimony with a simple family history: “My mother was the fourth child of the Kafka family.” When the interviewer asked if there was any chance she was related to the famous German-speaking Jewish-Czech writer, she answered in a soft, mellifluous voice and with a glint in her eye: “Yes, but he became famous only after his death and, actually, only after the death...
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
momentmag.com | Frances Brent
After the Israeli curator, gallery founder, sculptor and peace advocate Chaim Peri finished writing Yarena, his children’s book about a grandfather and his granddaughter who go out to look for the moon, he asked the well-known Israeli artist Ophra Eyal if she would do the illustrations. He knew she would bring her poetic vision to his simple story, an encomium to nighttime and the night sky, as well as an unsentimental look at the bond of caring between a grandparent and grandchild.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
momentmag.com | Frances Brent
Whenever Chagall’s work is exhibited in Eastern Europe, it produces feelings of sad sweetness for those who know his life story. So much of his art was an expression of longing for his home, Vitebsk, in the northwestern region of the former Russian Empire. Chagall mythologized Vitebsk and escaped from it twice. The first time was in 1910, when he was 23 and went to Paris in order to develop his talent. In 1914, he returned home because his sister was getting married.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
tabletmag.com | Frances Brent
Many critics have talked about Sonia Delaunay’s work as an art of surfaces. When I was growing up in the 1950s and early 1960s, you could still find her block-printed and hand-finished scarves in some of the Chicago department stores. I remember her patterned sequences of circles, half-circles, diamonds, and zigzags, some in striking black and white and others with bold color contrasts—for instance, juxtaposing lilac, aquamarine, and cream.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
momentmag.com | Frances Brent
The long stem of a wilted flower in a tall glass bottle, a bowl of artichokes covered with a folded napkin, an old encyclopedia of plant life bookmarked with forgotten, curling strips of paper. These were some of the Israeli photographer Osnat Ben Dov’s still-life images that hung on the walls of Kibbutz Be’eri’s art gallery, torched by terrorists on October 7.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Frances Brent
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
momentmag.com | Frances Brent
Meteorology was the first science we studied when I was in middle school in the Chicago area during the early 1960s and I was mesmerized by clouds. Whether we were keeping a record of feathery wisps of cirrus or densely packed, almost volcanic cumulonimbus, Chicago with its erratic and changeable weather patterns and the expanse of Lake Michigan, which situated the city, was the perfect laboratory.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
momentmag.com | Frances Brent
Fans, gowns, beaded dress pumps, even a French hat ornament constructed from the stuffed body of a bird-of-paradise, complement the 50 paintings assembled for “Fashioned by Sargent” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, currently on view through January 15, 2024. The exhibition focuses on American expatriate artist John Singer Sargent’s relationship to fashion, demonstrating how he used costumes and textiles to frame his subjects and show off his artistic virtuosity.
