A Brush With Jewish Identity: The art world knows Tobi Kahn as a

From: The Jewish Week | Date: January 27, 1995| Author: Daniel Schifrin | Copyright information


The Jewish Week

01-27-1995

A Brush With Jewish Identity: The art world knows Tobi Kahn as a painter. and sculptor. Friends know him as an Orthodox Jew. Now he is drawing the two together.

In 1985, when Tobi Kahn was still trying to make a living out of his Long Island City studio, the Guggenheim Museum called to tell him his future had arrived.

One of a handful of artists selected for the museum's landmark "New Horizons in American Art" show, Kahn, nee...

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