Leonard Bernstein
Maestro Who Made 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
The Painter Who Treated a Second Career as Serious Work
Herb and Dorothy Vogel
Modest Salaries, Major Art Collection
Herbert Lust
The Collector Who Bought What He Loved
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
Shalva Band
How an Israeli Ensemble Turned Inclusion Into Pop Culture
The Broad
The Broad tested whether a free contemporary art museum built from private collecting...
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 Museum matters because it treats American Jewish history as part of the...
Yemenite Jews in Israel
Ancient Traditions, Mass Migration, and a Living Musical Legacy
Aaron Copland
Composer and America's Sound
Alex Katz
Painter Making Flatness Feel Alive
Alexander Rosenberg
Glass Artist Beyond Blown Away
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 Who Made Pharmaceuticals Look Beautiful and Dangerous
Billy Crystal
Jewish Comic and a Broader Act
Bob Iger
Executive Who Remade Disney for the Franchise Era
Charlie Kaufman
The Screenwriter Who Turned Anxiety Into Film Structure
Clive Davis
Executive and Rewriting Popular Music
David Geffen
Mogul Behind Labels, Studios, and Cultural Institutions
Doris and Donald Fisher
Gap Founders and SFMOMA Art Patrons
Drake
Rap Star Keeping Jewishness in the Frame
George Gershwin
Composer and Modern American Music
Helen Frankenthaler
Painter Who Let Color Change Shape
Ida Applebroog
The Artist Who Made Power Look Cartoonish and Cruel
Itzhak Perlman
The Violinist Who Made Classical Music Feel Personal
Jason Gould
Singer Who Refused to Stay Only Somebody's Son
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 Beyond The Dinner Party
Julie Schumer
The Painter Who Came Back to Abstraction
Julie Taymor
Director, Stagecraft, and World-Building
Ken Goldberg
Roboticist Treating Automation as a Human Problem
Kenny G
Smooth Jazz, Soprano Saxophone, and a Global Habit
Lawrence Weiner
Artist and Language Do the Work of Sculpture
Mandy Patinkin
Performer With Jewish Music Still in the Frame
Michael Tilson Thomas
Conductor Making American Music Feel Central
P!nk
The Pop Star Who Turned Defiance Into Arena Art
Paul Kolker
Surgeon, Artist, and the Problem of Perception
Peter Max
Pop Artist, Cosmic Color, and Mass Culture
Philip Glass
Composer Who Made Repetition Feel Vast
Philip Levine
Poet and Giving Work Its Own Music
Polly Apfelbaum
The Artist Who Let Color Sprawl
Riva Lehrer
The Artist Who Made Disability Portraiture Answer Back
Roy Lichtenstein
The Pop Artist Who Made Reproduction Look Strange
Scooter Braun
Artist Management, Catalog Power, and HYBE
Susan Sontag
Critic and Interpretation Fight With Experience
Tony Schwartz
Ghostwriter Who Argued With His Own Bestseller
Victor Borge
The Pianist Who Made Classical Music Safe for Laughter
What Is a Cantor? The Prayer Leader Whose Work Joins Music,...
A cantor leads synagogue prayer through voice, melody, and liturgical knowledge.
What Is a Ketubah? The Jewish Marriage Contract and
A ketubah is often admired as wedding art.
What Is a Shofar? The Ram's Horn That Turns Jewish Time Into a...
A shofar is not background music.