The artist Jackie Ferrara, who died last week in Basel, Switzerland, at the age of 95, liked to describe herself as a methodical drone. A sculptor of graceful wooden structures and architectural ...

While others made sleek metallic sculptures, she favored humble materials like lumber and glue. The Times called her “one of our most gifted and inventive sculptors.” Jackie Ferrara in 2025. Whether ...

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Exiled Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had fled to Italy translated Hebrew bible into their common language In 1553, a community of exiled Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had found refuge and ...