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When Gershuni Paints there is a God

28, Apr 2011

By David Sperber Translated from the Hebrew by Elisheva Sperber It would not be an exaggeration to say that the retrospective exhibition of Moshe Gershuni, displayed at the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, is one of the museum’s most important exhibitions as of late. Gershuni became a groundbreaker since the days of political and conceptual art, […]

Art for Arzei: A Melding of Jewish Traditions

6, Apr 2011

By Elana Amminadav | Tweet On Feburary 27th Art for Arzei opened in Teaneck, New Jersey, showcasing work drawing on strong biblical, religious, and Judaic influences. Artists featured include David Abecassis, Ksenija Lea Pecaric, Natalia Kadish, and Andrew Cotton, also acting as curator. The four artists come from different countries and are varied in their […]

Gary Baseman: Walking Through Walls

31, Mar 2011

By Josh Sky – Read the full article on HEEB | Tweet Like Gary Panter before him and Banksy and Shephard Fairey after, Gary Baseman blurs the line between fine art and commercial art. Illustration, vinyl toys, painting, animation; no medium is off limits. Past projects include campaigns for brands like Nike and Mercedes-Benz, designing […]

Insights Into the Lives of Jewish Women

29, Mar 2011

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Last Generation Women of the Book

22, Mar 2011

By Chava Evans | Tweet “Women of the Book” is an exhibition of books by Jewish women at the Park School, a private preparatory school outside of Baltimore. At first glance, the show is a bit of a puzzle. What is a fairly major show of Jewish art doing in a non-Jewish school ten minutes […]

Contemporary Art Trends and What This Means for Us

15, Mar 2011

By SUDINmag | Tweet The Armory Show in New York is one of the largest and most prestigious annual exhibitions for contemporary and modern art. Recently, the airy warehouses on piers 44 and 42 on NY’s Hudson River housed galleries from all over the world for this high end display of industry excellence. The industrial […]

Shabbat Gallery Hop

14, Mar 2011

Old City Jewish Art Center (Philadelphia, PA) By An Art Museum a Week | Tweet On the first Friday of every month, the epicenter of the Philadelphia art scene in Old City plays host to “First Friday”. Many of the superb little galleries in Old City (Philadelphia’s historic section) keep their doors open until 9 […]

Moving Talmudic Murals

17, Feb 2011

By Eszter Margit | Tweet The Sota Project by Ofri Cnaani The image of two beautiful Israeli women kissing, the emblem of Ofri Cnaani’s Sota Project, is certainly an attention grabber. But the exhibition that opened yesterday at the Kunsthalle Galapagos has so much more to offer than a LGBT-friendly, feminist sisterhood interpretation of a […]

Lipstick on Torah Scroll Part 4

7, Feb 2011

By David Sperber | Tweet 53 Arik Weiss, Ye Shall Cleave, 2008,  photograph, detail Adherence and yearning Photographs showing what looks like a mummy or golem wrapped all around in white masking tape (fig. 55), and a photograph of a hand similarly wrapped with the same white tape, reminiscent of phylactery thongs (fig. p. 53), […]

Lipstick on Torah Scroll Part 3

4, Feb 2011

By David Sperber | Tweet 27 Ken Goldman, Torah Mantle, 2006, mixed media Well-versed yet subversive It is interesting to observe how the “Judaica Twist” draws contemporary Jewish art closer to themes and patterns of thought already familiar to us from modern Jewish literature, cinema and theater. Scholars have pointed out that modern Jewish creativity […]


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