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Lipstick on Torah Scroll Part 2

3, Feb 2011

By David Sperber | Tweet 38 Dov Abramson, Ner Mitzvah, 2003, digital print on paper 613 Candles In this same spirit, the three artists whose work is displayed in the Zimmun exhibition were trained as graphic artists or industrial designers, yet are active on the art scene. For a long time, graphic design was perceived […]

Lipstick on Torah Scroll Part 1

27, Jan 2011

By David Sperber | Tweet It is commonly believed that the Jewish world of the past was devoid of aesthetics, and that visual creation was not an integral part of it, at least until the modern period. This claim is partially true, but the sweeping generalization distorts the real picture. In fact, the assumption derives […]

New York Jewish Film Festival: Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish

18, Jan 2011

By Saul Sudin | Tweet Eve Annenberg, USA, 2010; 91m The Jewish film world is starved for new ideas to emerge. Just as Ava (The film’s writer/director Eve Annenberg) is tasked with updating an early-20th Century Yiddish version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet for a modern Yiddish-speaking audience, so too it seems that Jewish cinema […]

Quiet Moments ‘In Plain Sight’

12, Jan 2011

Tonight, the 92Y debuts In Plain Sight, photographic works by David Akiba, 5-6:45p.m.
Weill Art Gallery at the 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue New York, NY.

New York Jewish Film Festival Opening Night: Mahler on the Couch

12, Jan 2011

By Saul Sudin | Tweet Percy Adlon & Felix Adlon, Austria/Germany, 2010; 97m Inexplicably the opening night film of this year’s New York Jewish Film Festival, Mahler on the Couch contains no Jewish content whatsoever beyond the tangential fact that its main character was in fact born Jewish and discarded his religion, something not even […]

Hadas Gallery Opens on Myrtle Ave in Brooklyn

10, Jan 2011

By SUDINmag | Tweet *Artist talk January 25th see below for details* The Hadas Gallery located on Myrtle Avenue alongside the world renowned Pratt Institute opened its doors yesterday with an exhibition titled “Depth, Balance, Surface.” The exhibition features nature photography by Brooklyn artist Richard W. Golden who finds beauty in the abstraction found in […]

Jerusalem Design Week “Time 02”

13, Dec 2010

Ancient City and Modern Issues Explored with Design By Core77 | Tweet The “Time 02” exhibition, currently on show in a decommisioned leprosy hospital, is intended as a platform for young Isreali design talent to explore the historic legacy and present realities of the city. The “Jerusalem Clock”, pictured above—by designers Atar Brosh, Merav Schnaps […]

Kiefer’s Other Land

26, Nov 2010

The German artist’s new show, ‘Next Year in Jerusalem,’ tackles the Bible, Kabbalah, and the Passover Seder By Jeannie Rosenfeld, originally posted by TabletMag | Tweet If geography is indeed destiny, then the German Neo-Expressionist Anselm Kiefer could be deemed the saying’s poster child. Many accounts of his work begin with the simple facts of […]

Size Matters: Notes on the Triumph of Feminist Art

25, Nov 2010

By DANIEL BELASCO, originally published by Lilith Magazine | November, 25, 2010 Tweet The Jewish Museum has focused its collection of contemporary art since the 1980s on works with strong themes of social consciousness: race, anti-Semitism, assimilation, identity, sexuality, and family. Within the collection, there is a strong grouping of well over 100 works that address critically […]

Line of Fire: Hanukah Sculpture as Pedestal for Antiquities

17, Nov 2010

BY SUDINmag | November 17, 2010 Tweet On November 19th, 2010, the Jewish Museum will present to the public “A Hanukah Project: Daniel Libeskind’s Line of Fire,” an exhibit featuring a modern sculptural work by renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, in conjunction with select pieces from the Museum’s prized menorah collection. Menorah display atop The Line […]


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