Leonard Bernstein
Maestro and Classical Music Public
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Artists, Music & Performance
Writers, musicians, performers, and cultural figures whose work shaped Jewish and public culture.
Bette Midler
The Divine Miss M and the Art of Being Larger Than Life
Carole King
Songwriter, Private Feeling, and Public Music
Mel Brooks
Comic, Parody, and Major American Art
Capital Jewish Museum
How Washington Put Jewish History in the Civic Center
Eric Sanders
Painter and the Serious Second Career
How Orthodox Jewish Music Built a Crossover Lane
Orthodox Jewish music did not break into wider culture through one style or one ideology.
Jewish Artists Who Changed Modern Visual Culture
Painting, Photography, Cartooning, and the Public Life of Images
Klezmer Explained
The Wedding Music That Became a Global Jewish Sound
Moroccan Jewish Music
How a Shared Sound Survived Dispersal
Paul Azaroff
Teacher Keeping Yiddish Warm
Shalva Band
How an Israeli Ensemble Turned Inclusion Into Pop Culture
The Broad
The Broad and the Bet That a Free Museum Could Anchor Downtown LA looks at the people,...
The Coen Brothers
Joel and Ethan Coen did not become major filmmakers by inventing new genres.
Why the Weitzman Museum Matters for American Jewish History
The Weitzman's reopening was never the main story why the United States needs a museum...
Aaron Copland
Composer and America's Sound
Alex Katz
Painter Making Flatness Feel Alive
Alexander Rosenberg
Glass Artist Bringing Serious Craft to Reality TV
Art Rosenfeld
Physicist and Energy Efficiency in Public View
Art Spiegelman
Cartoonist and Comics Answer to History
Barbara Kruger
Artist and the Turn Toward Advertising Against Power
Ben Shahn
Painter Treating Art as a Form of Dissent
Beverly Fishman
Artist and Pharmaceuticals in Beautiful and Dangerous Form
Bob Iger
Executive Who Remade Disney for the Franchise Era
Clive Davis
Executive and Rewriting Popular Music
David Geffen
Mogul Behind Labels, Studios, and Cultural Institutions
Drake
Rap Star Keeping Jewishness in the Frame
George Gershwin
Composer and Modern American Music
Helen Frankenthaler
Painter and Letting Color Change Shape
Ida Applebroog
Artist and Power in Cartoonish and Cruel Form
Itzhak Perlman
Violinist Making Classical Music Feel Personal
Jerry Saltz
Critic Making Looking at Art Feel Urgent
Jerry Stiller
Comic Father, Exasperation, and an Art
Jim Dine
Artist Who Made Ordinary Objects Feel Personal
Judy Chicago
Feminist Artist and the Refusal to Be Reduced to The Dinner Party
Julie Schumer
Painter and Coming Back to Abstraction
Lawrence Weiner
Artist and Language Do the Work of Sculpture
Louise Glück
Poet Who Made Severity Sing
Mandy Patinkin
Performer With Jewish Music Still in the Frame
Michael Tilson Thomas
Conductor Making American Music Feel Central
P!nk
Pop Star, Defiance, and Arena Art
Paul Kolker
Surgeon, Perception, and an Art Experiment
Peter Max
Pop Artist, Cosmic Color, and Mass Culture
Philip Glass
Composer Making Repetition Feel Vast
Philip Levine
Poet and Giving Work Its Own Music
Polly Apfelbaum
Artist and Letting Color Sprawl
Riva Lehrer
Artist and Disability Portraiture Answer Back
Roy Lichtenstein
Pop Artist and Reproduction in Strange Form
Victor Borge
Pianist and Classical Music Safe for Laughter
What Is a Cantor? The Prayer Leader Whose Work Joins Music,...
A cantor is not just a good singer.