As NJCF Director Maia Ipp wrote in her widely shared 2019 essay Kaddish for an Unborn Avant-Garde: “Making art, like Jewish practice, is premised on the belief that careful attention to process itself is necessary to imagine and ultimately reach an unknown, but a desired outcome. Artmaking and Jewish life both demand surrender and determination; precision and wild abandon; patience and urgency; solitude and community. And at the very center of both Judaism and experimental artmaking is a generative tension between modernity and tradition; between a commitment to the lineage that formed us, and the desire to see and represent the world anew.”

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https://www.artforum.com/slant/toward-an-alternative-future-for-jewish-art-88879