I’m Jewish and I Don’t Want to Leave Again

I’m Jewish and I Don’t Want to Leave Again

We thought it wouldn’t happen here. Yet we knew it could. 

America was our promised land. For any American Jew alive now, America saved your family one, two, or three generations ago. Three of my four grandparents fled Ukraine (then Russia) and Belarus, sites of famous pogroms. My great-grandparents from my mother’s side fled Hungary. My father’s parents had accents so thick I could barely understand them. 

Wrightwood 659’s Fall Exhibitions Highlight the Expansive Cosmos and Same-Sex Desire

Discover works by Michiko Itatani in Celestial Stage and the history of queer identity in art in The First Homosexuals, now on view at the Chicago art space.

How Do We Free Those Who Are Already Free?

African scholars Felwine Sarr and Dorcy Rugamba seek to answer this question with the musical theatre performance Freedom, I’ll have lived your dream until the very last day.

Artemisia Gentileschi Painting Damaged in Beirut Blast Undergoes Restoration at Getty Museum

The previously unknown work was salvaged by a Lebanese artist and art historian, who first made the case for the painting’s authenticity.

Washington University in St. Louis Offers an Interdisciplinary MFA in Visual Art

Prospective students can meet faculty, tour studios, and learn more about the two-year residential program at a virtual open house on November 7.

Pierre Soulages, “Painter of Black,” Dies at 102

His oeuvre was an archive of his journey to understand black pigment’s primordial origins and its paradoxical role as a portal to light.

Lil Nas X’s “I Will Avenge U Mr Van Gogh” Meme Goes Viral

The rapper posted an image miming an attack on one of Andy Warhol’s tomato soup cans, and as usual, his fans ate it up.

Earn Your MFA in Studio: Printmedia at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Focus on experimentation at SAIC.

Rubens Painting, Lost for Centuries, Heads to the Auction Block

The work, whose whereabouts were unknown until a French family discovered it in their collection, could sell for up to $35 million.

The Art World Reacts to Ye’s Hateful Comments

A film studio scrapped its completed documentary on Ye, artists are denouncing hate speech, and LA’s Holocaust Museum says it received threats.

Why Is an Auction House Selling Works by Imprisoned Native Artists?

The Kiowa Tribe is urging Bonhams to halt the sale of the books, which they believe “may have been wrongfully acquired.”