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A Beastie Boy’s Ode to Jewish Brooklyn—In Wallpaper Form

Mike D: founding member of the Beastie Boys, Jewish kid from NYC, and interior decorator specializing in Jewish themes? Michael “Mike D” Diamond, who rapped, sang, and played drums for everybody’s favorite hardcore-punk-turned-hip-hop trio, is multi-talented, so it’s no surprise his foray into wallpaper design is the stuff of dreams—so long as your dreams take […]

By Molly Tolsky

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Co-defendant in French art heist says he tossed masterpieces in the trash

Investigators reportedly believe that Yonathan Birn, one of three people on trial for the theft of artworks worth more than $100 million, sold them in Israel.

February 2, 2017 4:29 am

The Online Holocaust ‘Selfie’ Art That Set the Internet Ablaze

You may have seen it: YOLOCAUST, a short-lived online gallery that transformed Holocaust-themed glamour selfies into historic scenes of horror, complete with corpses. Shahak Shapira, the Israeli artist behind the project, wanted to draw attention to the unsettling phenomenon of young people mugging for their iPhones at Auschwitz and at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial. But if you haven’t seen the […]

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