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Kansas City Jewish Art Fund
24, Jul 2011The Jewish Community Foundation of Kansas City is reviving its Jewish Art Fund to develop arts in the Jewish community, as well as promote Jewish art in the general community. Michael Klein is leading this initiative. “The fund’s original purpose was two-fold: to purchase Judaic items for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and to bring […]
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31st San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
20, Jul 2011The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is hosting their 31st annual fest July 21st – August 8th, 2011. The festival, one of the largest and best in the world, will be featuring a wide range of Jewish and Israeli films with both contemporary and historical subject matter. The festival has a long standing reputation of […]
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G-d Bless Jewish
12, Jul 2011Juxtapose Magazine recently posted this photo of the word “Jewish” grafittied with the stars and stripes of the American flag. You must be patriotic everyday and get over all your “1st world problems.†While photographed in front of his work, the artist is proudly displaying an American flag on his t-shirt, a sign of the relationship […]
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Eli Valley was recently noted on The Big Jewcy list for his graphic novel interpretations of Jewish culture. Jon Reiss writes, “As Jews, we are to question and challenge ourselves. To some degree this doctrine is the cornerstone of comic writer Eli Valley’s work. Valley’s work exists in a world all its own, a far cry […]
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Melville House show extended
21, Jun 2011Update: The 42 Letter Name at the Melville House Gallery exhibition is extended until July 1st.
International Museum Designer Patrick Gallagher Chosen to Design the New Museum of the Jewish People By Beit Hatfutsot Patrick Gallagher, President and Founder of Gallagher & Associates, a leading, international professional design firm, has been chosen by Beit Hatfutsot’s Board of Directors and International Steering Committee to lead the planning and the renovation of Beit […]
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Anne Hromadka makes the The Big Jewcy list 2011
17, Jun 2011Congratulations to Anne Hromadka, recognized on The Big Jewcy list 2011 for her work in contemporary Jewish art! The Big Jewcy: Anne Hromadka – SEDER As Art By Margarita Korol for Jewcy In an interview with graphic design god Milton Glaser, he discussed art as a survival device, something that persisted through human culture as […]
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Female artists from the religious community face innumerable barriers to joining the art world; one project in Jerusalem aims to give them a warm home and a push out of the nest. By Tamar Rotem for Haaretz The sailboat knitted in red wool, which appears to be chained to the hole-studded wooden board, isn’t going anywhere. […]
The Cannes Film Festival Awards Jewish Film, Bans Director Who Made Anti-Semitic Remarks
23, May 2011Plus, the Coen Brothers were in Israel By Saul Sudin Much has already been said about Lars Von Trier and his outrageous statements at the Cannes Film Festival, having infamously stated “I really wanted to be a Jew and then I found out that I was really a Nazi, because my family is German. And […]