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Ex-Haredi Artists Grapple With Their Pasts
3, May 2011By Shulem Deen for the Arty Semite A photo of a woman wrapped in phylacteries might not seem very bold after Leonard Nimoy’s “Shekhina†project. But to many of the artists at the opening of a new art exhibit called “All in the Eye,†a photograph of a woman adorned with tallit and tefillin, eye to […]
- In: Exhibition Reviews
- Tags: Hassidic, Mixed Media, NYC
JTS Exhibits Artists in Residence
2, May 2011By SUDINmag The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) presents Volumes II, an exhibition by JTS artists in residence that is now open at the JTS library in New York. From books to fabric sculptures, graphic novel illustrations, and cereal box aprons (!?), this second exhibition of work by JTS artists in residence is as diverse as […]
VOLUMES II An Exhibition of Art Curated by Tobi Kahn
27, Apr 2011FEATURING ARTWORK BY JTS STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND STAFF PARTICIPATING IN THE JTS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM, INCLUDING: Leah Schechter Bennett • Abby Cohen • Aryeh Davidson • Sarah Diamant • Sara Figueroa • Gregory Gilbert • Jennifer Gersch • Sonia Gordon-Walinsky • Nina Gordon • Tamara Kohn • Jonathan Kremer • Ilana Sassoon • Jennifer Stern • […]
Gary Baseman: Walking Through Walls
31, Mar 2011By Josh Sky – Read the full article on HEEB | Tweet Like Gary Panter before him and Banksy and Shephard Fairey after, Gary Baseman blurs the line between fine art and commercial art. Illustration, vinyl toys, painting, animation; no medium is off limits. Past projects include campaigns for brands like Nike and Mercedes-Benz, designing […]
- In: Exhibition Reviews
- Tags: Hebrew, Illustration, NYC
By SUDINmag | Tweet A call for innovation in the arts was discussed this week at The Orthodox Forum, an academic conference hosted by Yeshiva University. The mission of this year’s conference was to come to terms and innovate art and cultural trends not inherently understood in the community. The discourse reflected the Modern Orthodox […]
- In: News
- Tags: Jewish Art Education, NYC
Contemporary Art Trends and What This Means for Us
15, Mar 2011By SUDINmag | Tweet The Armory Show in New York is one of the largest and most prestigious annual exhibitions for contemporary and modern art. Recently, the airy warehouses on piers 44 and 42 on NY’s Hudson River housed galleries from all over the world for this high end display of industry excellence. The industrial […]
- In: Exhibition Reviews
- Tags: NYC, Painting, Sculpture
By Tom Johansmeyer on Luxist | Tweet There were breaks in the rain, but the day ended with small rivers flowing through the gutters in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood. It was the last day of Armory week in New York City, an event consisting of art fairs all over the city, ranging from colossal reputations and […]
- In: Featured Artists
- Tags: NYC, Photography
Dirty Jew
8, Mar 2011By Dreyfus Amadeus Diallo for SUDINmag | Tweet POBE is an alias. It hides the name and identity of one of New York’s most notorious graffiti artists. It obscures definition. POBE fill-in on Manhattan’s Lower East Side
- In: Featured Artists
- Tags: Graffiti, NYC
By Matthew Baigell for the Arty Semite | Tweet Most people do not know that we are living in a golden age of Jewish American art. But, as I will explain in a lecture at the Jewish Museum on March 7, we are. Siona Benjamin Since around 1975, there has been an incredible but largely […]
- In: News
- Tags: Art as Midrash, Jewish Artist Groups, Museums, NYC
Moving Talmudic Murals
17, Feb 2011By 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 […]
- In: Exhibition Reviews
- Tags: Art as Midrash, Feminist Art, New Media, NYC, Video Art