By The Jewish Art Salon | Tweet After ten years, eight journals, tons of open mics and performances, the 2010 edition of Mima’amakim will be the last. Help them go out with a bang at their journal release party. Poets from journals past and present, music from old friends Rashanim, special guest Karen Alkaly-Gut (all […]
By SUDINmag | Tweet Thursday, January 27, 2011 5pm-1am at 320 Studios 320W 37th st, 14th floor New York, NY, 10018 The second installation of the Contrast Art Show; an art exhibition which puts together a variation of artists, artistic movement groups, and several upcoming galleries in an attempt to show the rising trend of […]
By Punk Jews | Tweet A celebration of the upcoming Punk Jews documentary series. Four breakthrough Jewish artists take the stage who exemplify this new movement of smashing stereotypes and breaking down boundaries. Be our guest for dancing, screenings, and raffles to help us kick off the project with an evening you won’t soon forget. […]
By Saul Sudin | Tweet Eve Annenberg, USA, 2010; 91m The Jewish film world is starved for new ideas to emerge. Just as Ava (The film’s writer/director Eve Annenberg) is tasked with updating an early-20th Century Yiddish version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet for a modern Yiddish-speaking audience, so too it seems that Jewish cinema […]
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.
Tonight, the 92Y debuts In Plain Sight, photographic works by David Akiba, 5-6:45p.m.
Weill Art Gallery at the 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue New York, NY.
By Saul Sudin | Tweet Percy Adlon & Felix Adlon, Austria/Germany, 2010; 97m Inexplicably the opening night film of this year’s New York Jewish Film Festival, Mahler on the Couch contains no Jewish content whatsoever beyond the tangential fact that its main character was in fact born Jewish and discarded his religion, something not even […]
By Richard Mcbee originally posted for the Jewish Press | Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam currently at the New York Public Library at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, explores parallel and divergent trends in illuminated manuscripts and books, from the last 1500 years, which are in the Library’s vast permanent collection. Most importantly, on the […]
By SUDINmag | November 30, 2010 | Tweet The Art Installation Initiative presents Art of Seeing Artwork by Tanya Fredman http://tanyafredman.com/home.html Please join us at 520 Eighth Ave. New York Suite 1500 Thursday, December 9th 5:30 – 7:00pm for an opening reception with the artist as we rededicate our space and reimagine our vision for creating a […]