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Jewish Art Now presents Jacqueline Nicholls Part One: Judaism & Art from Jewish Art Now on Vimeo. Jewish Art Now presents Jacqueline Nicholls Part Two: The Kittel Collection from Saul Sudin on Vimeo. Jewish Art Now presents Jacqueline Nicholls Part Three: The Mourning Kittel from Jewish Art Now on Vimeo. Find out more […]
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Temporary Shelter
19, Sep 2012Temporary Shelter is a collection of narrative panels that tell the stories of homeless New Yorkers in an installation that mimics the shape of a sukkah. Artist Heather Stoltz relates the homelessness found in New York City to that of the Jews in their journey in the desert following the exodus from Egypt and concepts found […]
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Biodidactic Designs’ Hive Honey Set
12, Sep 2012With honey on the mind as Rosh Hashanah quickly approaches, check out this innovative Hive Honey Set from Biodidactic Designs. The jars from this New York based designer come in both clear and frosted glass, and are shaped like a single honeycomb resting at a diagonal. The hive honey set is “informed by the complexities […]
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- Tags: Holidays, Industrial Design, NYC, Ritual Objects, Sculpture
From Cage to Kabbalah; How an Artist Bridges the Gap
19, Jun 2012By Rivka Nehorai Hamsa Dore, 2007. Printing on transparencies; metallic overprinting; handwritten text; gold, crystal, glass beading; moonofilament. 5 3/4″ x 4″ “Silence is not acoustic. It is a change of mind, a turning around… My responsibility (is) that of asking questions instead of making choices.” So were the words and approach of composer, artist, […]
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Freedom and Choice, the work of Efraim Moskovics
10, Apr 2012By Jessica White, Vienna Efraim Moskovics is a photographer who challenges form and structure in a peaceful and non-threatening way. He takes familiar rituals and traditions in Judaism, to look at them in abstraction, from a different viewpoint, one that is contemporary and full of rich influences from literature, film and contemporary art. In doing so, he reveals what is within a community, […]
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Money & Marbles, Dov Abramson’s ‘Open Up’
21, Mar 2012Open Up (‘Patoach Tiftach’) 194 glass boxes, 10x10x10cm each, 7147 marbles “כי ×™×”×™×” בך ×ביון… פתוח תפתח ×ת ידך לו והעבט ×ª×¢×‘×™×˜× ×• די מחסורו ×שר יחסר לו†“When any of your brothers is poor… open up your hand generously, and extend to him any credit he needs to take care of his wants.â€Â  (Deuteronomy 15:7-8) “Open Up (‘Patoach […]
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Video: Paper Tefillah – In the Artist’s Words
15, Feb 2012Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik is one of the most innovative Jewish artists working in traditionally papercut technique today. Through his Paper Tefillah series Bialik explores how we engage in prayer, how we connect to G-d, and to each other. “What I am doing with this series is trying to explore how we engage in prayer, how we […]
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By Elke Reva Sudin, Edited by Dena Schupper Divir and Devorah Crestone, Colorado, is an hour from nowhere and not even equipped with high-speed Internet access, but it’s where Shahna Lax has made her home for the last 23 years. She lives a life without television, though in another life she used to be a […]
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Miriam Stern, Mass Moca, 2011. Oil on canvas, 48 x 36 in. Explosive and multi-dimensional, Reflections, a new series by Miriam Stern, brings attention to internal and external forms that shine. Now exhibiting at the Johnsons & Johnsons headquarters in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in a building designed by I.M.Pei (the architect of the pyramid […]
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Virtual Exhibitions: Shema! and Global/Local
13, Nov 2011Jewish Art Now partnered up with the Jewish Art Salon to put together two exhibitions for the Global Day of Jewish Learning, Shema! and Global/Local. These virtual exhibitions are being projected at over 200 locations in 40 countries for the special event being held today. The Global Day of Jewish Learning was starting in […]
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