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Museums and galleries tend to abide by the “no-touch” rule to safeguard the artworks they display.

Artist Daniel J. Martinez provokes religion, politics to incite insight

Daniel Joseph Martinez has a question, or, rather, he wants you to have one. Well-known as one of the art world’s favorite provocateurs, the Los Angeles native and resident has brought his unique brand of art-as-conversation-piece to Culver City’s Roberts & Tilton Gallery for his first L.A. gallery exhibition in a decade, “I Am a Verb.” But why is Martinez, a non-Jewish artist, getting coverage in the Jewish Journal? Well that’s simple, really; one of the works he made for the show is a series of photos of a hunchbacked, masked man with the Shema tattooed on his chest, along with a Muslim prayer inscribed in Arabic on one arm and a Catholic prayer in Latin on the other.

Dung and Sympathy

Art has a wonderful way of bringing us back to our roots. Take that controversial modern-art exhibit now showing at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. It\’s making monkeys out of everyone concerned.

Chasing Stolen Art

Henry Bondi, a Princeton, N.J., biochemical engineer, has spent much of his adult life chasing after a painting that he says Nazis stole from his aunt. Now, at 76, he\’s finally getting close.

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