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Sunday March 6th
Opening Reception 2-5pm
After-party 8pm
Hadas Gallery
541 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, NY
(across from the Pratt store)
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- In: Events
- Tags: Brooklyn, Jewish Galleries, Mixed Media, Painting
Drawing On Tradition: The Book of Esther
2 Mar2011
Now on view through April 29th, 2011 at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
Drawing On Tradition: The Book of Esther
Original drawings from Megillat Esther by JT Waldman
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- Tags: Baltimore, Graphic Novels, Illustration
This week the Conference of American Jewish Museums was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania uniting museum directors, curators, and artists from across the country.
The Jewish Art Salon gave a special presentation for the members of the conference hosted at the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art. The panel, “A New Creative Spirit” was inspired by the contemporary experience of Jewish artists forming partnerships with American Jewish museums, synagogues, and institutions.
- In: News
- Tags: Jewish Artist Groups, Museums, Philadelphia
Jewish Art Study Tour in Israel
28 Feb2011
Israeli and Jewish ART – Study Tour: July 19 – 28, 2011
At the end of the 19th century there were only a handful of Jewish artists – a prominent minority that stands out in contrast to the thriving world of Hebrew literature. One reason for this was the prohibition on Jews being accepted to art academies in many European countries. In addition, the ban represented by the statement, “thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image” also carried weight in the decision-making process of these young artists. The Jewish artists who were active at the time were more engaged in issues of Jewish identity, and thus spent less time dealing with issues of personal expression.
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- Tags: Art History, Israel, Jewish Art Education
Letters Lost and Found
24 Feb2011
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 out to create a new digital typeface of Hebrew characters, he and type legend Matthew Carter reached far back into history. The result is Le Bé, and it’s based on one of the first Hebrew movable types, a famously beautiful typeface—Kosofsky calls it exuberant and confident—that first appeared in 1569 in the Plantin Polyglot Bible. Its newly digitized version, still in development, will debut in The Selected Poems of Yehuda Halevi, an original e-book from Nextbook Press with translations and commentary by Hillel Halkin. Tablet Magazine visited Kosofsky’s workshop in Lexington, Mass., to see how he adapted a 16th-century calligraphic type for the digital age. In this audio slideshow, Kosofsky shows off his work and explains what drew him to the font, the particular challenges the Hebrew alphabet poses to typographers, and why he sees Le Bé as Hebrew’s equivalent to the elegant and ubiquitous Garamond.
The Selected Poems of Yehuda Halevi is available from Nextbook Press here.
Produced by Are Daniel Shapiro. Photography by Amanda Kowalski.
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- Tags: Typography
M’dor L’Dor Exhibit Opening
23 Feb2011
- Self Portrait As My Grandfather by Alan Falk
Exhibition Opening
Thursday, February 24th, 6-8pm
Closing and Live Auction
Thursday, March 24th, 6-9pm
Bidding will begin promptly at 7:30pm
What is Jewish Art?
22 Feb2011
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 off to express itself?
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- 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 Robbins, Racheli Rotner, Sharon Rudahl, Laurie Sandell, Ariel Schrag, Lauren Weinstein, Ilana Zeffren
Graphic Details is a groundbreaking touring exhibition, providing the first in-depth look at a unique and prolific niche of graphic storytelling – Jewish women’s autobiographical comics. While the influential role of Jews in cartooning has long been acknowledged, the role of Jewish women in shaping the medium is largely unexplored. This exhibition of original drawings, full comic books and graphic novels, presents the powerful work of eighteen Canadian and international artists whose intimate, confessional work has influenced the world of comics over the last four decades, creating an entirely new genre.
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- Tags: Canada, Illustration
Moving Talmudic Murals
17 Feb2011
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 controversial Talmudic text about jealousy, deception, guilt and ultimately death. Cnaani’s aesthetically appeasing video installation, a spatial narrative that surrounds the spectators by placing simultaneous images on every wall, succeeds in making an ancient tale of societal judgment and ritual humiliation relevant to our lives today. “I wanted to evoke the tradition of murals and medieval tapestries, that were the visual storytelling techniques in the Middle Ages,†Cnaani said, speaking to JewishArtNow.
At the 20-minute screening, the Israel-born artist successfully merged two conventional storytelling techniques; panoramic pictures and episodic, sequential narratives. Each wall-sized projection is visually rich and complete, creating separate landscapes without cuts, zooms or fades. Cnaani tells the story by putting these images in a beautiful, self-reflexive cross-commentary, synchronously moving along one another.
- In: Exhibition Reviews
- Tags: Art as Midrash, Feminist Art, New Media, NYC, Video Art
Call for Entries – Ketuv
16 Feb2011
Ketuv is an organization established by artists Arielle Angel and Maya Joseph-Goteiner in an effort to re-imagine the traditional ketubah (a Jewish marriage contract, signed at the wedding to unite a couple by law) and establish a new market for contemporary artists to create revenue. Ketuv is equally committed to providing couples with original fine-art ketubahs via editions and custom made works, as to promoting the work of emerging and established artists.
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- Tags: Calligraphy, Graphic Design, Illustration, Marketing, Painting, Ritual Objects