Front Cover: The cover illustration shows a detail from Danger Lurks in Forgetting: Katrina, exhibited in artist Janet Braun-Reinitz’s most recent solo show, “Danger Lurks in Forgetting” (Venice 2013), as one of nine large-scale painted panels showing flight and destruction from natural and manmade disasters and wartime tragedies. Katrina takes on myriad references beyond New Orleans, especially in the Venetian context. The artist says, “The psyches of both cities are shaped by their often precarious relationships to water. In this painting, everyone and everything is sinking, as is the entire city of Venice, a mantra heard for the last 100 years or more. Jim Crow created segregation in New Orleans just as the ghetto created segregation in Venice. There the buildings were erected to six rather than the usual five stories in order to contain the Jewish population, a fact that still impacts the Venice cityscape. (And then there is the issue of both sites having become tourist “attractions.”) The bugs in Katrina are an ongoing image in my work, signifying the idea that as humans and their habitats are destroyed, whether by manmade or natural disasters, the descendants of the much older insect populations continue to survive.”

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Judith Margolis

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Elisheva Baumgarten
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Sylvia Barack Fishman
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Tova Cohen
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Blu Greenberg
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Kathryn Hellerstein
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Laura Levitt
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