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St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Gateway Arch photo by Brittany Moore/Pexels

The land can serve as the stuff of great art

NANCY KRANZBERG, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished July 16, 2021

Walking through nature’s work of art in parks all over during these crazy times, I started thinking about artists and how they interpret the beauty and grandeur of it all in their own ways. Landscape art is the most obvious, but land art or earthworks...

Hannah Wilke with Ponder-r-rosa 4, 1975 Photograph © 2021 Scharlatt Family, Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

New exhibition explores work by Jewish artist Hannah Wilke

ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEFPublished June 13, 2021

Earlier this month, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation opened “Hannah Wilke: Art for Life’s Sake," the first major presentation of this unconventional Jewish artist’s work in more than 10 years. Wilke, who died in 1993 at the age of 52 from lymphoma,...

Gateway Arch photo by Brittany Moore/Pexels

Retiring leaders of local museums, arts groups deserve community’s thanks

NANCY KRANZBERG, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished June 7, 2021

I’m usually giving a warm, welcoming hello to art directors, curators and others who are coming to St. Louis to head our art institutions. I’m always telling them how culturally rich St. Louis is and how I know they will be happy here. Today, I’m...

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Choreography: Alvin Ailey
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Photo: Paul Kolnik

2021 Summer Arts Guide

ELLEN FUTTERMAN and MIKE SHERWINPublished June 4, 2021
While this summer might not quite be a complete return to how things were pre-COVID — many arts organizations are maintaining social distancing precautions and performing outdoors or waiting until fall to open — there’s no shortage of fun arts and entertainment activities for all of us to enjoy this summer.
Israeli artist Dana Levy brought rescue birds to north St. Louis and shot video of them at and around abandoned buildings for her new exhibit at the St. Louis Art Museum.

This Israeli artist found inspiration in north St. Louis for new exhibit

BY ERIC BERGER, ASSOCIATE EDITORPublished March 4, 2021

Before artist Dana Levy came to St. Louis, she didn’t think the city would provide an “extreme” enough setting for her work. But when the Israeli-born artist traveled in 2019 to north St. Louis, she had never seen a place like it, she recalled.If...

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