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Julia Weiner
Julia Weiner is Senior Lecturer in Art History at Regent's University, London and the JC art critic. #000d
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Obituary: Alicia Melamed Adams
Artist and survivor of the Holocaust who retained her belief in a loving world
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Frame and fortune: 18 decades of celebrating Jewish art
Since its first publication, the JC has ensured that the achievements of Jewish artists, designers, curators and collectors have been recorded for posterity
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Agathe Sorel
Experimental printmaker fascinated by natural and man-made materials
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Book review: Edith Halpert and Rachel Feinstein
Two books that tell the lives of two women who cracked the masculine world of art
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Book review: The Book of Sarah
An artist’s graphic and confessional biblical footnote
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Grayson Perry among star-studded line-up at Israel arts support dinner
Friends group raises £750,000 for educational projects at museums
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Art loving Israel supporters enjoy a brush with star
Marina Abramovic, 'the grandmother of performance art', is lunch guest of British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel - and donates a work as a raffle prize
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Making herself up: Was Frida Kahlo Jewish?
As a new exhibition about the Mexican artist prepares to open at the V&A we look into her claims of Jewish heritage
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Surface Work: the women who made abstract art
Julia Weiner introduces a new exhibition
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From Israel to Israel — artist’s gift helps raise £600k for museum friends
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Two painters, two Jews, two friends
Two exhibitions running from this month celebrate the art of two famous Jewish artists, Modigliani and Soutine
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The émigrés with designs on British icons
Jewish refugees dominated British graphic design in the 1940s, creating many of our most iconic symbols. Julia Weiner, co-curator of a new exhibition of their work explains how this came about
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Frank Cohen: Art in store
Art collector Frank Cohen has an exhibition at London's poshest grocer's. Julia Weiner had an exclusive tour.
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The Jewish artists who pushed the boundaries
Questions of gender and sexuality in the work of Jewish artists emerge in two major art exhibitions.
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Revolution at the Royal Academy
Jewish artists feature prominently in the RA's exhibition of art from the period after the Russian revolution.
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Friends of Art Museums of Israel put on a big show for 70th anniversary
Damien Hirst, Gilbert & George and Tracey Emin are among those who have figured in the British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel story
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