In 1960, when Mossad agent Peter Zvi Malkin led a team to capture Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, Malkin’s cover was as a tourist. As part of the cover, Malkin brought his own pastels, colored pencils, dry watercolors and oils. He also carried a South...
By Stephen Cohen, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 7, 2018
The works of Mona Hatoum, an internationally renowned artist who was born to a Palestinian family in Beirut, give powerful expression to feelings of dislocation, upheaval and confusion that can be experienced on a personal as well as a collective level.Hatoum,...
“Fabric of Survival: Images of the Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz” will be the next exhibition at the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center, 12 Millstone Campus Drive. It opens Nov. 3 and remains on view until Nov. 30. In 1977, at the age of 50,...
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published October 26, 2016
The moment the Chicago Cubs clinched the National League Championship Series Saturday night to advance to the World Series against the Cleveland Indians, my husband left the room and went outside. He stayed there for more than a half-hour while I gleefully...
By Sarah Weinman, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published August 17, 2016
The art of Bunny Burson and Roy Strassberg in the upcoming exhibition “Between the Lines” at Craft Alliance in the Delmar Loop appears very different on the surface but shares major themes. Burson, a local printmaker, and Strassberg, a ceramic artist,...
By Sarah Weinman , Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 20, 2016
Petruta Lipan, director of St. Louis University Museums & Galleries, has high praise for the late St. Louis painter Linda Skrainka.“Linda Skrainka is a powerful artist. Her power sneaks up on you when you look at her work,” said Lipan, who curated...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published September 28, 2011
Dr. Michal Artal is living proof that getting older can provide an opportunity to pursue our passions to the fullest. If we're lucky, time and good health will be on our side. And who knows, perhaps by age 66, we'll enjoy the personal equivalent of a...
