Bay Area
North Bay artists built a sanctuary, then fire wiped it out
Caryn Fried’s home wasn’t just a home. “We taught classes there, we had a gallery there where we sold our work, we had studios there,” she said,…
Art
Jewish artists contribute to East Bay in-person art show
Several Bay Area Jewish artists are part of a juried group show at the Abrams Claghorn Gallery in Albany through Sept. 30. The show, which can be seen in…
Art
Hope for Jewish artist’s historic work at UCSF
A clock that’s been ticking down on historic murals at UCSF Medical Center by the Jewish painter Bernard Zakheim has been paused temporarily, as widening…
Art
Tawonga staffer's coloring book encourages you to color 'Outside the Lines'
Sometime during this unprecedented year, Bay Area illustrator Meg Adler decided that what the world needed most was a coloring book. Not just any coloring…
Art
Now online: Magnes exhibits of works by Vishniac and Szyk
Two large exhibits that had just opened at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley when the coronavirus pandemic began can now be…
Bay Area
S.F. Asian Art Museum to remove bust of founding donor with antisemitic views
San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum plans to remove a bronze bust honoring Avery Brundage, a founding donor whose well-documented antisemitic and racist…
Art
Threads of memory: Survivor embroiders pain into beauty
My Ukrainian grandmother came to the U.S. at 17, fleeing the early 20th-century pogroms, then toiled as a seamstress for all her working years. But even…
Art
Jewish muralist’s historic work faces demolition at UCSF
How does a significant piece of public art go from being the “jewel of the University’s art collection” to a work designated for the wrecking ball in just…
Culture
‘Long road’ for CJM and Magnes to be fully operational again
Two months ago, the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco faced a big decision. Museums around the world were shutting their doors in response to…