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The artist whose work now gets a canvas Rembrandt could never have imagined is a substitute teacher from Allentown, Pa., who has made art for over 30 years but never had the backing of a major museum or gallery. Her creation will loom over Times Square because she won an online contest in which users of a Web site gave her more votes than 35,000 competitors.
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Inside Museum, a collection of “strange artifacts and objects removed from their narratives.”
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Reasserting and Redefining Jewish Culture in Poland
Her mother told her casually over lunch one afternoon that Ms. Ziolkowska’s father, with whom she has no contact, was Jewish. Though she was a bit shocked by the news — and her mother’s offhanded mention of it — she said even as a young girl she had been keenly interested and felt a connection to Jewish history and literature.
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Marcus Jonson A hut in the forest near Skinnskatteberg, Sweden; 44 euros at welcomebeyond.com.‘Escape From Camp 14,’ by Blaine Harden
When Blaine Harden wrote his shocking 2008 profile of Shin Dong-hyuk for The Washington Post, Mr.