by Sue Eisenfeld

More than a hundred paintings that debuted on the salon walls of the world’s first impressionist show in 1874 found each other again at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC in September 2024. I went to see the show on October 6, the day before October 7, which was the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s murder of 1,139 people in Israel and the hostage-taking of 250 people, and it was roughly halfway between the two holiest days in the Jewish year, during the Days of Awe. Continue reading “People of the Sand” →