Arthur Rothstein knew how to find the heart of a story. The son of Jewish immigrants, the late, great photographer used his lens to focus on the human element, both in the U.S. during his Depression-era New Deal work and abroad during World War II and highlighting the plight of refugees. “Dad’s own family immigration…
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Art
Hanukkah
Pop Art Rabbi’s take on Pittsburgh
Check out the stunning, evocative art on the cover of this week’s Hanukkah issue of J. The Jewish News of Northern California by Yitzchok Moully. It…
Art
They migrated to paradise: painted photos animate stories of four families
San Francisco artist Heidi Hardin had serious problems with her family when she was growing up in Oklahoma in the ’50s and ’60s. So as soon as she…
Photography
Vishniac archive lands at Magnes, including unseen Israel images
In a development that will add gravitas to the Bay Area art world and lead to a greater understanding of 20th-century Jewish history and culture, the…
Kids & Family
Artist’s first kids’ book is a yawner — in a good way
So you think falling asleep is a grown-up problem? Not so, says Rebecca Whipple Silverstein, 37, author of an artful new children’s book that approaches…
Art
Oaklander’s Anne Frank collage hangs in Pittsburgh Holocaust center
Bay Area artist Mitzi Trachtenberg was born in 1929, the same year as Anne Frank, in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Squirrel Hill where 11 Jews were…
Art
The Jewish and Israeli story through Islamic art on exhibit in S.F.
Alexander the Great, who created one of the largest empires in the ancient world, has been a popular subject of books, novels, poems and plays. But the…
Art
Ceramics and mosaics show at Reutlinger
Renée Powell, an art appreciation instructor at the Reutlinger Community in Danville, is the featured artist in an exhibit of ceramic and mosaic art…
Art
Putting a silky finish on spiritual text-iles
Few people actually make a living at art, says Catherine Stern. But making a more meaningful life through art — that is something she can do. “I’m often…