Mitja Velikonja’s book The Chosen Few: Aesthetics and Ideology in Football-Fan Graffiti and Street Art was the subject of two art classes at Pasadena High School in a lesson about… Read more Teaching Mitja Velikonja’s The Chosen Few →
In an article highlighting 1920s architecture in Paris, The Royal Institute of British Architects Journal (RIBA) discussed the forgotten architect Jean Welz. The publication credits Welz’s design of the recently… Read more Jean Welz Identified in the RIBA Journal →
Boston-based publisher Academic Studies Press will be publishing a print anthology of 18 works of fiction from the Canadian online literary journal Jewish Fiction .net. Each story in the anthology is translated… Read more Peter Sichrovsky to be included in Jewish fiction anthology →
A second-generation Holocaust survivor weaves together fragments of her family’s history and witness testimony in narrative and collage, using her art as transformation and remembrance. Jana Zimmer’s Chocolates from Tangier: A… Read more Jana Zimmer Book Launch and Upcoming Events →
Dear Friends and Readers, We are saddened by the news that Adolfo Kaminsky has died last night at the age of 97. This brave man, survivor, defender of human rights,… Read more Adolfo Kaminsky Obituary and Tributes →
Extended through December 4, 2022! Curator Darrin Alfred writes, “Jacqueline Groag (British, born Prague, 1903–1986) was one of the most influential and versatile pattern designers of the post-war era. Whether… Read more Groag “Pattern Play” exhibition extended at Palm Springs Art Museum →
Cultural Historian JoAnn LoSavio (Washington State University) reviews the forthcoming book I Am Oum Ry: A Champion Kickboxer’s Story of Surviving the Cambodian Genocide and Discovering Peace with an eye… Read more “I Am Oum Ry” Strikes Hard →
DoppelHouse author Antoinette LaFarge gives the keynote talk at this all-day virtual symposium celebrating the life and legacy of Norman Daly, who “discovered” the fictional civilization of Llhuros in the… Read more Antoinette LaFarge to give the keynote at Llhuros Symposium →