By Tablet Magazine | Tweet Type designer Scott-Martin Kosofsky explains the creation of Le Bé, his new digitization of a beautiful 16th-century Hebrew typeface. It debuts in The Selected Poems of Yehuda Halevi, a Nextbook Press e-book published this week. Letters lost and found from Tablet Magazine on Vimeo. When type designer Scott-Martin Kosofsky set […]
By Yitzchok Moully originally posted on The Algemeiner | Tweet Maurycy Gottlieb/Yitzchok Moully This is a question any self respecting Jewish artist – and others- ask from time to time. In a time where art is going in many different directions, what is defined as Jewish art? What are the parameters that define Jewish art? What guidelines does it need to adhere to, to qualify? What rules does it need to embrace or throw […]
By SUDINmag | Tweet Illustration by Diane Noomin February 17 to April 17, 2011 Koffler Gallery Off-Site at the Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St W Originated by Michael Kaminer and Sarah Lightman Vanessa Davis, Bernice Eisenstein, Sarah Glidden, Miriam Katin, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Miss Lasko-Gross, Sarah Lazarovic, Miriam Libicki, Sarah Lightman, Diane Noomin, Corinne Pearlman, Trina […]
Academy Award-nominated Director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Wrestler) has had a dream project boiling for several years now that would feature his take on Noah and the flood. There is still no word on when, if ever, the film would be made, but it has now been revealed that Aronofsky is currently producing a […]
By Matthue Roth | Tweet Jerusalem’s Association of Planning and Conservation posed the question to the world: What will Jerusalem look like in 100 years? A bunch of filmmakers, both amateur and professional, entered the Assocation’s “Jerusalem 2111″ competition. Here’s the winning entry, “Secular Quarter #3,†by David Gidali and Itay Gross. It’s bizarre and disturbing […]
By Liana Finck on Tabletmag | Tweet Illustrator Liana Finck has started a visual question and answer blog on Tablet Magazine. Read the first installation here.
Over two hundred Jewish presenters gathered at the City Winery in New York on January 11-12 to network and celebrate Jewish culture. One of the main discussions centered around branding Jewish culture: organizers of four successful international Jewish cultural festivals discussed their unique strategies and dilemmas. Even though festival organizers think visual representation is key, there is a growing need to connect with visual artists, who truly understand the concept of their project and are able to bring Jewish concepts to mainstream audiences.
By SUDINmag | Tweet Cover of Shulayim The publication “Fringes – Jewish Art as an Israeli Periphery” is a continuation of a series of publications published under the auspices of the Leiber Center of Bar-Ilan University. The series focuses on research and documentation of contemporary Jewish art discourse in Israel. The series in general, and […]
By Uri Finty on JTA | Tweet NEW YORK (JTA) — What was Elisabeth Moss, star of the AMC hit series “Mad Men†and an avowed Scientologist, doing hanging out with a Lubavitcher Jew? They were making a movie together to promote “tikkun olam,” the Jewish value of repairing the world. Filmmaker Marc Erlbaum with […]
Menachem Wecker Posted Oct 27 2010 on the Jewish Press Art Through Time: A Global View A 13-part series produced by Thirteen (WNET) for Annenberg Media Premiered Oct. 10 Jill Peters (exec. producer), Suzanne Rose (series producer), Jennifer Hallam (managing editor, writer producer), and Eva Zelig, Arash Hoda and Gail Levin (producers) http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/ Jewish art […]