“There is something admirable about a society whose highest values include such works of daring and imagination”
Pressed to an extreme, inequities, both visible and symbolic, become a source of social...
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“Like the ancients, we experience far more than we understand”
…we denizens of the third millennium ce make constant recourse to specialists whose art has no...
“Images make us think of other images”
Images make us think of other images. Photographs remind us of other photographs, and...
“The dazzle of art and the bitterness of life are yoked to each other”
A photograph can’t help taming what it shows. We are accustomed to speaking about...
“Nudity in art was not ubiquitous in Eretz Yisrael and America, and it is not surprising that we woke up in the 20th century in American and EY and found these things surprising”
In response to the email from the Lakewood scholar, S. commented as follows: Another...
“The Jewish community doesn’t care about art. … The art world doesn’t care about religion.”
The Jewish community doesn’t care about art. Not real art, anyway. The art world...
“Pressed to an extreme, inequities, both visible and symbolic, become a source of social outrage even if they are no worse than older inequities”
Pressed to an extreme, inequities, both visible and symbolic, become a source of social...
“…many scholars of illuminated Haggadot have been victims of interpretive paralysis, and that their work is often disappointing”
…Marc Michael Epstein calls attention to a problem in art history scholarship that he...