Journal
The day devoted to Jewish music and visual art collaboration at “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture” showed how cultural meaning can move between an…
The exhibition presented through Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture offers a close look at how contemporary Jewish artists use images, objects,…
A walking tour can make cultural history feel less like a sequence of dates and more like a set of relationships between streets, buildings, memories and daily…
A conference talk at Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture reconsidered the familiar story of Jewish Abstract Expressionism by placing women artists at…
The opening-night keynote at Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture established the intellectual and emotional direction for the week in Madison,…
During “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture,” Madison’s synagogues took on a role that reached beyond regular worship. For one week, familiar communal…
A kiddush cup is a ritual object used to bless wine or grape juice on Shabbat and Jewish festivals. It may be modest or ornate, inherited or newly made, but…
A conference can be more than a sequence of lectures. When artists, academics and community members spend a week exchanging ideas, showing work and testing…
The session on Jewish art and the aging community formed part of Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture, a week-long conference in Madison, Wisconsin. The…
A chuppah can be both a sacred structure and a work of visual culture. Its four open sides traditionally suggest hospitality, while its roof marks a shared…