Anish Kapoor has spent a six-decade career exploring the universe’s voids, but last week, he was contemplating what it means to be Jewish. The British conceptual artist’s striking pigment sculptures and depth-defying small forms are on view in the exhibition “Anish Kapoor: Early Works” at the newly expanded Jewish Museum. At a preview, Kapoor, who was raised in a Hindu-Jewish household in Mumbai before moving to a kibbutz in Israel, then leaving for London in the 1970s, acknowledged that embracing one’s Jewish identity while opposing Israel’s catastrophic destruction of Gaza in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 attacks evoked complicated feelings. “The sad truth is with the contemporary reality of the war in Palestine, it’s very hard to properly step up to both Jewishness and say I’m deeply against what’s going on, but it’s important that it happens,” Kapoor told Hyperallergic. “It mustn’t be misinterpreted as anti-Jewishness or antisemitic. It’s anti-war and pro-human.” To read t...