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Adolph Gottlieb, Untitled. 1973. Monotype in ink on paper, plate size: 18 x 24” ©️Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation/ Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY   A first-generation Abstract Expressionist, Gottlieb produced the works included in “A Painter’s Hand” after a stroke he suffered left him […]

Tucker’s Grocery, Selma, Alabama, 1994. Jerry Siegel, Black Belt Color. Siegel was born in Selma in 1958. He became interested in photography while taking a night class at the University of South Alabama, and spent a lot of time at a Selma art gallery owned […]

Surrounded by pastors and ministry leaders, Tom Bradford presents check for $111,745 to Donald Hess, chair of the Birmingham Jewish community’s security enhancement capital campaign, and Levite Jewish Community Center President Allison Weil.  On the eve of Passover and the start of the Christian Holy […]

On view through Dec. 31, the series is made up of more than 40 black-and-white portraits of iconic American Jews, staged at Ellis Island. Among those included are Roy Lichtenstein, Betty Friedan, Arthur Miller and Ralph Lauren. Now in his 50s, the Paris-born artist has […]

Photograph likely taken around the turn of the century,  courtesy Gadsden Public Library, Historic Scarboro Photograph Collection.  Nadler Store at Chestnut St and 4th St in Gadsden, Alabama  Although it may seem odd that an infant buried in what was the Jewish section at Forrest […]

Breaking ground on the Uptown Jewish Community Center expansion in New Orleans on Sept. 29. Pictured are Richard Buchsbaum, JCC president; Brian Katz, chair of the JCC Capital Campaign; Latoya Cantrell, New Orleans City Councilperson; Edward Soll, president of the Jewish Federation of Greater New […]

Interior, Mississippi Museum of Art Roy R. Neuberger lived to 107, and was described by the New York Times as a stock trader who “built up one of Wall Street’s most venerable partnerships and one of the country’s largest private collections of 20th-century masterpieces.” It’s part […]

Around the South: Week of September 18, 2016 NECHAMA Jewish Response to Disaster announced that it will continue operations in Baton Rouge at least through the end of October. Thus far, NECHAMA has welcomed over 300 volunteers, provided over 6,000 hours of service and assisted […]