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…arts&life exhibits Gates of Paradise by Miriam Schapiro Voyage Beneath The Surface Miriam Schapiro’s marrying of the domestic and the political at New York’s Museum of Art and Design. SANDEE BRAWARSKY SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS I n the 1970s, artist Miriam Schapiro invented the term “femmage” — combining the words feminine and collage — to describe her new approach. In spir- ited style, she brought the objects of women’s domestic lives...…
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