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Culture writer for The New York Times from Amsterdam. Author of three novels and a forthcoming nonfiction book. Mom, dog owner, kickboxer
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Nina Siegal has been a regular freelance contributor for The New York Times since 2012. Based in Amsterdam, she covers museums, exhibitions, art restoration and attribution issues, art world discoveries and legal cases, profiles of conductors, filmmakers, dancers and other cultural figures, and culture in a socio-political context. An occasional general-news reporter, she has also written about migration issues, emerging political parties and legal cases in the Netherlands.

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This Artist's Face Is Her Canvas, and Her Calling Card

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By Nina Siegal Verified
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In the 1990s, French multidisciplinary artist Orlan submitted to a plastic surgeon's knife, fully conscious and with a camera rolling, to give her face the features of some famous women from art history: Mona Lisa, François Boucher's "Europa" and Botticelli's "Venus." She became an international sensation with that project, "The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan," which later included getting horn-like cheek implants in her forehead.
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Fewer Visitors, More Threats: A New Reality for Europe's Jewish Museums

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By Nina Siegal Verified
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AMSTERDAM -- In fall 2023, the Jewish Museum of Belgium was drawing crowds to its show of photographs by fashion portraitist Erwin Blumenfeld. Then came Oct 7. Attendance at the museum dropped precipitously in the days after the Hamas-led attack on Israel and Israel's subsequent bombardment of the Gaza Strip. Barbara Cuglietta, the museum's director, said the building was soon as empty as it had been during the COVID-19 pandemic. School groups stopped visiting, and the public stopped showing up.
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Menos visitantes, más amenazas: los museos judíos de Europa enfrentan una nueva realidad

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By Nina Siegal Verified
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El Museo de Arte e Historia del Judaísmo en París. Francia tiene la tercera población judía más grande del mundo, después de Estados Unidos e Israel (Foto: Jérôme Galland / NYT) En otoño de 2023, el Museo Judío de Bélgica atraía a multitudes a su exposición de fotografías del retratista de moda Erwin Blumenfeld. Luego llegó el 7 de octubre.
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