What’s Your Gangster Story?

Ron Aron’s motivation for writing his book, The Jews of Sing Sing: Gotham, Gangsters and Gonuvim was the experience of learning that his own great-grandfather, Isaac had been an inmate at Sing Sing– something he didn’t learn until after his own parents had died and he was investigating his family history. In talking about his research he has found many people willing, even proud to boast of their own family connection to the Jewish gangster past.

Which begs the question… got any gangsters in your family.

Opening Tuesday: Albanian Muslim Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust

The faces that confront you in Norman Gershman’s photographs have seen suffering, experienced suffering. They are faces you look at and know, life has not been easy for them. At the same time, these portraits do not communicate bitterness, but rather extraodrinary warmth and pride etched in the lines of their faces. These are rescuers [...]

This Week at the 16th Street J

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Session II Begins Monday, June 30
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The Annual [...]

Differing (L)attitudes–Chicago and DC

It was both interesting and sad to see our worst fears for this past spring’s Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery exhibition (L) attitudes, a show about mapping Israel/Palestine, realized in a similar exhibition at Chicago’s Spertus Museum which closed their exhibit Imaginary Coordinates early. What never happened in DC came to pass in Chicago: a controversial [...]

Nikolas Schiller: Mapping From 16th and Q to Artomatic

Artist Nikolas Schiller, whose work Israel/Palestine 1993 appears in the current Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery Exhibition L (A) T T I T U D E S has an installation opening this Friday at Artomatic. Below is a time-lapse video of his preparations for that work:

L (A) T T I T U D E S on Smithsonianmag.com

A great write-up on Smithsonian Magazine’s Articulations blog of our exhibit in the Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery.
On the surface, I expected a historical survey of the area’s cartography, giving perhaps a sterile, graphical representation of the boundaries and as they moved to and fro with the political winds. Happily, this was not the case. The [...]

Creating “Orange Map” by Avner Bar Hama

“L (A) T T I T U D E S”–an exploration of maps of Israel and Palestine created by ten contemporary artists, opened last week in the Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery. You can view elements of the entire show at their virtual gallery.
Unquestionably the boldest piece of work on display, both for its physical [...]