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8 Nights 8 Windows: Public Hanukkah Art In Boston

7, Dec 2015

By Olga Khvan for Boston Magazine To celebrate Hanukkah this year, windows at eight establishments throughout Boston will be illuminated with installations by local artists—one to represent each night of the Festival of Lights. “8 Nights, 8 Windows” is the city’s first Jewish public art project, organized by the New Center for Arts and Culture […]

Video: “Sjnoder, Anatomy of Tzedakah” by Billha Zussman

30, Nov 2015

The story “Anatomy of Tzedakah” depicts the life of a Sjnoderbook, transformed into a magic, self- consuming hand disguised as a glove, representing the Rambam’s Eight Levels of Tzedakah. The selfless, self-devouring, self-regenerating hand, the magic hand that reaches its heart and disappears. View this new work from the Israeli-born, Dutch artist Billha Zussman:

“Articulating Koheleth” from Sarah Friedland (Interactive Video)

17, Sep 2015

By Sarah Friedland, for Laba Journal During her recent residency at the MacDowell Colony, filmmaker Sarah Friedland engaged in a deep visual meditation of Ecclesiastes (Koheleth in Hebrew). Her tools were the text, a camera and a couple of packets of articulating paper that she found outside a dentist office back in New York City. […]

Nina Paley’s Chad Gadya “Embroidermotion”

16, Sep 2015

After over a year of work, animator Nina Paley has finished the stunning “embroidermotion” of Chad Gadya as an intermission piece for her still in production feature length Seder-Masochism project. The exhaustive process used newly developed software by Theodore Gray to bring it to life, which you can read about in detail here. Every frame […]

Traversing Tradition: Transformation in and of Contemporary Jewish Life

7, Sep 2015

The JTS Arts Advisory Board Presents Traversing Tradition: Transformation in and of Contemporary Jewish Life Exhibition Curator: Rebecca Pristoop Participating Artists: Tamar Ettun | Jake Levin | Angela Strassheim | Silvio Wolf | Gil Yefman | Sarah Zell Young September 10, 2015, through May 19, 2016 3080 Broadway (at 122nd Street) New York City Traversing […]

Playing Word Games With Sacred Texts

31, Jul 2014

In addition to a priest, mannequins depicting a Jew, a Buddhist, a Hindu and a Muslim greet visitors. Gordon M. Grant for The New York Times The artist Nina Yankowitz is known for projecting words in glass houses, and oh how they can shatter the place. For “Criss-Crossing the Divine,” her current exhibition at Guild […]

Jewish Artists Pushing the Technological Frontier

17, Dec 2013

By Talia Lavin NEW YORK (JTA) — Jazz music drifts from speakers down to the cherry wood tables of the West Cafe in Brooklyn as the Israeli artist Nurit Bar-Shai prepares to show examples of her latest work. With deft, freckled hands, she opens a manila envelope and slides three petri dishes across the table. […]

Noah Meets Katrina in “Watershed”

7, May 2012

Premiering at the LABA Festival 2012 in New York By Elke Reva Sudin How difficult  is it to imagine a truly devastating catastrophe? Will calamity come from an instantaneous, even violent change in the landscape, or a slow transformation that could have been prevented? Will we suddenly realize the terrifying future  when the prevention is attainable or […]

Call for Entires: Ben Uri Gallery International Jewish Artist of the Year Award

28, Feb 2012

The International Jewish Artist of the Year Award (IJAYA) is one of the most prestigious international event of its kind showcasing artists from around the world at the Ben Uri Gallery in London, England. Standards are high with over 500 submissions from 18 countries across the world expected to submit. Artists selected for the final exhibition will […]

LABA FELLOWS APPLICATION 2011-2012

15, Jul 2011

LABA is a beit midrash, or Jewish house of study, for culture makers held at the 14th St. Y in New York City. Through the LABA fellows program, around 10 artists, writers, dancers, musicians, actors, and directors, partake in a yearlong study of classical Jewish texts in a non-denominational, non-religious setting, and incorporate these ancient […]


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