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FINDING THE GOOD STUFF: The work of Howard Lerner
20, Feb 2014Lerner uses these common remnants of our civilization to create human size constructions using a Biblical narrative.
- In: Featured Artists
- Tags: Asia, Mixed Media, New England, Sculpture
Hebrew Lettering and Jewish Mystical Art: A Look at David B. Wolk’s Scriptural Paintings
12, Feb 2014by Yehudis Barmatz-Harris What is it about the Hebrew lettering, and its written word, that makes it so dominant in Jewish mystical/abstract art today? In a parallel vein to artist Mel Alexenberg, who proclaims post digital art requires the inspiration of creative Judaic thinking, painter David Baruch Wolk believes that contemporary abstract painting has true […]
- In: Featured Artists
- Tags: Israel, Painting
Biblical Block Prints of Joyce Ellen Weinstein
9, Feb 2014A selection of works by Joyce Ellen Weinstein from the series “IN THE BEGINNING.” YACHOVED, linoleum block print. 29 x 29 in. Moses’s mother is wistfully and sadly saying good-bye to her child as she watches him float away in his basket of reeds. Her back is highly rounded and bent, emphasizing the burden of […]
- In: Featured Artists
- Tags: Art as Midrash, Printmaking
Artist Beit Midrash opens in Connecticut
5, Feb 2014“The Four Sons of the Haggadah: a textual and visual exploration†CT Artists’ Beit Midrash An artists’ critique group and workshop where we will create visual commentaries inspired by the Haggadah. Each session will include a textual study of the Haggadah, followed by a critique of work created outside of class. This is for Jewish […]
- In: Events
- Tags: Art as Midrash, New England
Tosafot Exhibition Engages Dialogue
2, Feb 2014Now on view at the Museum in Ein Harod Yonah Lavery-Yisraeli and Dvora Liss
- In: Exhibition Reviews
- Tags: Art as Midrash, Israel
Explore The Sacred
14, Jan 2014By: Menachem Wecker Originally published January 6th, 2014 for the Jewish Press Interfaith harmony, wherein religious lions sprawl peacefully alongside vulnerable lamblike colleagues, might be an appealing notion, but it doesn’t necessarily, or often, produce good fodder for an exhibit. It’s not difficult to curate an exhibit that celebrates different faiths and their collective tolerance, […]
- In: Exhibition Reviews
- Tags: Midwest US, Museums, Painting, Sculpture
‘Star Tours’ in the LA Diaspora
7, Jan 2014Side Street Projects: Star Tours: January 11, 2014 11am – 2pm On January 11 from 11 am to 2 pm Side Street Project visitors are invited to view the exhibition, learn micrography- an art form developed by 8th century Hebrew scribes that sculpts small text to form an image, and contribute to an artwork through […]
By Aaron Rosen for Hadassah Magazine On a sodden late autumn evening, I tromp through the byzantine streets of Spitalfields in the East End of London. A couple of wrong turns and drenched trouser legs later I find myself at the humble entrance to Sandys Row Synagogue, the oldest Ashkenazic synagogue in London. Sandys Row […]
- In: News
- Tags: Europe, Jewish Artist Groups, LA, Midwest US, NYC
Jewish Artists Pushing the Technological Frontier
17, Dec 2013By Talia Lavin NEW YORK (JTA) — Jazz music drifts from speakers down to the cherry wood tables of the West Cafe in Brooklyn as the Israeli artist Nurit Bar-Shai prepares to show examples of her latest work. With deft, freckled hands, she opens a manila envelope and slides three petri dishes across the table. […]
Snapshots: Art Basel Miami
16, Dec 2013Photos by Saul Sudin. Comments by Elke Reva Sudin. We traveled to Miami for Art Basel, one of the biggest festivals for the contemporary art market in North America. Here are some things we saw that made us question how people look at religion in contemporary art:
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