Louise Nevelson designed a work of art and of worship. Now, as its congregation downsizes, it is seeking a museum home.
Louise Nevelson, the storied American sculptor, created “The White Flame of the Six Million,” a 50-foot-long, 11-foot-high bimah sculpture incorporating a Torah ark and serving as a Holocaust memorial, for Temple Beth-El in Great Neck,…
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The deconsecration ends half a century of ritual use for Nevelson's bimah sculpture at Temple Beth-El. Demographic change on Long Island shrank the congregation from 1,500 families, forcing the Torah scrolls out after Yom Kippur. The work, also a Holocaust memorial, will be disassembled and stored. Its next home, museum or otherwise, determines whether it stays public.