Artists on antisemitism – Art review in the Jewish Standard
By Joanne Palmer, July 3, 2024
… “Yona Verwer is the Jewish Art Salon’s founding director, and she was another of the curators of “Artists on Antisemitism.”
“After October 7, so many artists turned to me,” Ms. Verwer said. “People wanted to connect. They wanted to know if there was anything they could do, or that we could do. I realized that we had to get everyone in the salon together — artists, and also scholars, art historians, art directors, curators, everyone. Everybody felt a sense of isolation, so our group had to connect more with each other.”
“And then, when the art world started to turn virulently antisemitic, we had to push back.”….
