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Magazine / Summer 2018

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Essay
Art in a State of Emergency
What is the artist’s responsibility in a time of political crisis?
Arielle Angel
Conversation
Please Go To My Country and Say Salaam
An interview with Gazan painter Malak Mattar.
Emily C. Bell
Conversation
The Sharpness Comes Later
Multimedia artists Hadassa Goldvicht and Jacqueline Nicholls discuss self-censorship, labels like “Jewish” and “feminist” art, art as prayer, and more.
Hadassa Goldvicht and Jacqueline Nicholls
Excerpt
Prisoners of the Occupation
An excerpt from a play written with former Palestinian political prisoners and attacked and suppressed by Israel’s Ministry of Culture.
Einat Weizman and Anonymous Political Prisoners
Art
What People in Solitary Confinement Want to See
A collection of images from the participatory art project Photo Requests From Solitary.
Photo Requests From Solitary
Comic
Dziga Vertov: The Man Behind the Movie Camera
A comic about the Soviet father of 20th century documentary filmmaking.
Julia Alekseyeva
Comic
Kapo, Kapow
Artist Eli Valley wrestles with our history, the Trump administration”s crimes, and the word “kapo.”
Eli Valley
Art
From the Aftselakhis Spectacle Committee
Essay
A Homeland in Siberia
Nailebn magazine and the dream of Jewish self-determination
Eddy Portnoy

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