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A surrealist 1937 WPA mural (left) by Reuben Kadish (right) has been restored and is on view in San Francisco.
Posted inCulture

A surrealist WPA mural in S.F. by Jewish artist Reuben Kadish has been restored

by Julie Zigoris and San Francisco Standard April 28, 2023
Daniel Altman. (Photo/Berkeleyside-Courtesy Altman family)
Posted inFirst Person

Remembering Daniel Altman, Israel-born architect who painted Bay Area scenes

by Megan Davis and Sharon Davis April 12, 2023
The “California Modernist Women: Groundbreaking Creativity” exhibit at SFO (Photo/Courtesy SFO Museum)
Posted inUncategorized

Before your flight, catch this SFO exhibit of midcentury art by California women

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten March 22, 2023March 29, 2023
Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of Alios Itzhak, a young Jewish Israeli man of Ethiopian descent. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy The Jewish Museum)
Posted inCulture

Kehinde Wiley, who has a new show at the de Young, drew upon a 19th-century mizrah in portrait of Ethiopian Jew

by Cathryn J. Prince and Forward March 17, 2023March 17, 2023
Rabbi Gordon Freeman wearing the tallit his daughters gave him, which has the names of all his grandchildren on it. He is standing by a painting from The Sh'ma Project, which he and two friends put together.
Posted inJewish Life

Why this local rabbi is embracing his 80s with a second bar mitzvah

by Liz Harris February 15, 2023
Susan Duhan Felix in the first episode of “Art Beat,” a series Felix hosted on Berkeley public television. (Screenshot/Berkeley Community Media)
Posted inNews

Ceramicist, ‘welcomer’ and klezmer ‘impresario’ Susan Felix dies at 85

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 8, 2023January 15, 2024
Artist aleXsandro Palombo painted several images of characters from "The Simpsons" on the outside of Milan's central train station. (Photo/Courtesy Palombo)
Posted inWorld

Pop artist paints ‘Simpsons’ characters as Holocaust victims outside Milan Holocaust memorial

by David I. Klein and JTA January 30, 2023
"Angels of Mercy Embrace the Dead" by Karen Benioff Friedman
Posted inArt

Where Jewish lives end, this East Bay artist’s work begins

Laura Pall by Laura Paull January 23, 2023February 1, 2023
A mural honoring women of the Iranian protest movement in the Talpio neighborhood of Jerusalem.
Posted inCulture

Iranian protest mural in Jerusalem has ties to Bay Area radio star

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman January 18, 2023
"Two Work Tools," 2005 by Rina Kimche (Photo/Courtesy BAMPFA)
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Archaeology-inspired Israeli ceramicist Rina Kimche gets first U.S. solo show in Berkeley

by Dan Pine January 11, 2023January 11, 2023

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