This exhibition of work by Amadeo Modigliani (1884–1920) aimed to throw his far-reaching primitivist sympathies into focus by casting them through the lens of his Jewish identity.
At the opening of Florine Stettheimer’s Museum of Modern Art retrospective in 1946, her sister, Ettie Stettheimer, reportedly said, “I feel that this is the beginning of something.” For a while, it…
“The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin,” an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, is a heady romp around the mind of Walter Benjamin, the Jewish philosopher associated with the…