Sitemap - 2021 - Rough Sketch

Will a Great Awakening follow covid?

In memoriam

Museum labels elevate some religions over others

Degas is not too big to cancel

First vice-presidential mezuzah leaves doorpost open to many unanswered questions

The loneliest Jewish day for aesthetes

Imitatio artis

West Norway recognizes first official Jewish organization since WWII

Art history sheds light on professor’s reference to student’s hooked nose

In Smithsonian show, some girls are more equal than others

Extra-virgin post-Impressionism

Fee-free library

Conservative graphene

This Yom Kippur, many Jews washed their hands of a certain injunction

The problematic Red Cross logo

Painting behind Taliban fighters in Kabul presidential palace is worth 1,000 words

Petite Bourgeois

Give peace museums a chance?

The 19th-century painter who preached a lesson of shared humanity

The last year and a half may have incubated a new generation of ‘self-taught’ artists

Gum for art’s sake

Jewish ➡️ interfaith museums

Negative and positive (outer) space reviews

Eyesore espaliers

Game changer

A load-bearing painting

On a July 4 visit to the National Archives

Flipping someone the (17th century) bird

Gain-of-function writing

Simon Rockower award

It’s not ‘All aboard’ in the art world

Kamikaze cicadas

Some ‘Old Masters’ aren’t getting any younger, exhibit suggests.

In art, untidiness is next to godliness

Chassidic Jewish television writer has learned to accept religious institutionalism “warts and all”

Federally-funded D.C. museums still distrust the science.

The National Gallery says its new branding is welcoming. So why does it hang a violently-homophobic slur on its walls?

Should only artists report on art?

Shavuos synaesthesia

One way →

The best art found in attics, basements, garages

Stop the podcast!

Adult show-and-tell

To sleep: no chance to dream

Maternal pelicans

Art history baby

I trust the science, but...

View from on high

Passover reading

The sound of silence

Don’t scratch but do sniff

COVID bureaucracy

Hidden check

Fetishized movement

Leading scientists

Queen Esther: the legal thriller

Modern classicism

White House art

Lorem ipsum

Chesspionage

Drawing spirit

Objective news

On Jewish weather dominion

Godforsaken churches are able teachers

Amid the pandemic, give yourself “permission to explore art”

The Ark (curtain) de Triomphe

“Online museum” or website?

Wrestling with Jewish identity

Confessions of Ed Ruscha

Smithsonian ’Asian religions’ project gives some faiths the cold shoulder

Empathizing with iconoclasts

Biblical surprise

A hopsy RBG