- Artist/Maker:
- Cary Leibowitz
- Bio:
- American, b. 1963
- Title:
- Stonewall Yarmulke (Shalom Independence: July 4, 1776 - June 27, 1969)
- Date:
- 1994-95
- Medium:
- Satin
- Dimensions:
- Diameter: 8 in. (20.3 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the artist
- Accession Number:
- 1995-99
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Cary Leibowitz ordered these custom-made "designer" skullcaps from a supplier on the Lower East Side. A symbol of traditional Jewish observance, the yarmulkes become a canvas for the expression of various social and political ideas from domestic politics to Holocaust remembrance to gay pride.
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