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Jessica Seigel

  • Journalism Faculty, New York University
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Science, media, myth, women. Award-winning @NYTimes @washpost @chicagotribune @theAtlantic @Smithsonianmag, @NPR +. NYU adjunct journalism prof @deadlineclub-VP

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The towering Jewish critic who taught me to grok art and hate Picasso

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By Jessica Seigel
| Forward Verified
When I was a young teen in the 1970s, my artist mother told me that the dad who walked me home after I'd babysat for his son was a "famous Marxist critic." I was 13 and had no idea what that meant - and was too intimidated to ask. Only decades later at Max Kozloff's memorial after his death in April at age 91, did I grasp his significance for American art, the Jewish connection to his "Marxist" analysis and his work's unexpected meaning for my own life.
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One House, One Homeowner and More Than 100 Shades of White Original

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By Jessica Seigel
| The New York Times Verified
As a newbie on my first renovation, I had no idea what I was getting into when the contractor asked for wall color. "White," I said. "Which one?" he asked. In the world of paint, there are hundreds of shades of white that differ from one maker to the next, from Benjamin Moore's Chantilly Lace and Bavarian Cream to Behr's Swirling Water and Wind's Breath. How do you make sense of such frothy monikers, and how do you choose?
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Lifting a glass to closing David’s Shoe & Watch Repair

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By Jessica Seigel
| The Village Sun Verified
BY JESSICA SEIGEL | My father always told me: “Go to funerals. People don’t forget.” And then came my father’s funeral — and there was our beloved shoemaker from around the corner, Raphael Davidson (a.k.a. David) paying a shiva call for my dad’s 2021 passing. And I will never forget. I already adored David as my sole consigliere, watch fixer and zipper whisperer working out of his homey shop, David’s Shoe and Watch Repair, at 460 Hudson St., at Barrow Street, since 1982.
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