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  • Detail, Felix Nussbaum, 'Self-Portrait in a Shroud (Group Portrait),' 1942
    Detail, Felix Nussbaum, 'Self-Portrait in a Shroud (Group Portrait),' 1942
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    A Painter of the Holocaust for Our Times

    Three self-portraits by Felix Nussbaum, at New York’s Neue Galerie

    byPat Lipsky
  • Lucian Freud, 'Benefits Supervisor Sleeping,' 1995
    Lucian Freud, 'Benefits Supervisor Sleeping,' 1995
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    Lucian Freud’s Fat Lady Sings

    Flesh, set free by a ‘despicable genius,’ or ensnared in the male gaze?

    byJeremy Sigler
  • Alexander Turetsky.
    Alexander Turetsky.
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    Red Army Veterans

    May Day: Portraits of the Jewish soldiers who fought in World War II under the flag of Communism

    byJonathan Alpeyrie
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    The Secrets of John Singer Sargent’s Jewess, Lady Adele Meyer

    How the American master came to this living portrait, true to life—but what life?

    byJeremy Sigler
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    Larry Sultan’s Porn Stars, Mezuzahs, Migrant Workers, and Jewish Mothers

    In the late photographer’s first career retrospective, the ‘aroma of daily life’ lives forever

    byAbby Margulies
  • "Chayla in Shul," by Laura Pannack, winner of the National Portrait Gallery's 2014 John Kobal Award. (Courtesy of Laura Pannack)
    "Chayla in Shul," by Laura Pannack, winner of the National Portrait Gallery's 2014 John Kobal Award. (Courtesy of Laura Pannack)
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    Portrait of Orthodox Girl in Synagogue Wins International Photography Award

    ‘Chayla in Shul’ will be displayed in London’s National Portrait Gallery

    byMaya Benton
  • David Dawson, Albie Sitting for his Grandfather, 2004.(Courtesy of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, © The Bridgeman Art Library)
    David Dawson, Albie Sitting for his Grandfather, 2004.(Courtesy of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, © The Bridgeman Art Library)
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    Sigmund Freud’s Sicko Grandson: Cruel Lover, Terrible Father, One Hell of a Painter

    Two new biographical studies and dual exhibits in Vienna plumb the psychodrama of the great Lucian Freud

    byVladislav Davidzon
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