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5 DAYS ONLY. Oct 15-19.
Will Deutsch’s drawings collectively titled ‘Notes From The Tribe’ cover the spectrum of the modern American Jewish Experience.
As the culmination of this 2 year project through the 6 Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists we’re showing over 200 original pieces along with five days of not to be missed programming:
THE NITTY GRITTY:
NIGHT ONE: OPENING PARTY
Tuesday October 15, 7-11pm
Special programming starts at 8pm.
FREE
Food Trucks, drinks, a DJ, a dance floor and a photo booth where you can take your very own bar/bat mitzvah portrait!
COMPLIMENTARY TIX: https://secure.jewishla.org/page/signup/notes-from-the-tribe
Co-hosted by YALA & JCC Without Walls.
Let us know your coming by signing up on the “get tickets” link.
- In: Events
- Tags: Illustration, LA
From a modern-day spin on ‘Chicken Little’ to works by Haredi women artists, the Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art presents various displays of cutting-edge Jewish creativity.
By Danna Harman for Haaretz
Andi Arnovitz’s beads, on view in Jerusalem. Photo by Avshalom Avital
Jewish art is not hip. It can be beautiful, sure. It can be meaningful, of course. It can be valuable, no doubt. But cutting-edge? Current? Cool? Meh.
If you believe that, you clearly have not yet been to the first-ever Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art, which opened this week at five venues around town, with the participation of more than 50 artists showcasing a panoply of visions of what contemporary Jewish art can be.
“Don’t get me wrong,†begins Ram Ozeri, the 33-year-old mastermind behind the biennale and one of its seven curators. “It’s not that I don’t love menorahs or Torah scrolls,†he says, referring to the kinds of images that, along with pomegranates, dancing Hasids and the walls of Jerusalem, often come to mind — and with good reason — when the words “Jewish†and “art†combine.
“But this is something different.â€
- In: News
- Tags: Israel, Jewish Artist Groups
If Jewish community institutions continue to offer only second-rate klezmer bands and clichéd cantorial concerts as their cultural attractions, we may as well put a sign on the door saying the culturally Jewish are not welcome here.
by Joey Baron for EJPhil
Since the beginning of the Boston Jewish Music Festival (BJMF) four years ago, I have heard endless conversations about the future of the Jewish community, about the importance of day schools and about Israel and about interfaith families. I have listened to countless talks about synagogue life, inclusiveness, young adult engagement and Jewish identity. But with all too few exceptions, I have not heard any great outcry about or advocacy for is the critical importance of Jewish art and culture, and the role it can play in all those other concerns.
In fact, while many have rambled on about Jewish vitality, we have watched as JDub, the Six Point NYC Fellowship, and, now, the Foundation for Jewish Culture all cease operating.
Let me be perfectly clear. Our community needs great rabbis and teachers, scholars and entrepreneurs. But we also need great poets and musicians. We need to support Israel politically and charitably. But we also need to experience the great artistic accomplishments in music, dance, and literature that are part of contemporary Jewish life there, here, and just about everywhere. Along with thriving religious and educational institutions, a vibrant cultural life is essential to a vibrant future for our community.
- In: News
- Tags: Jewish Artist Groups
September 11, 2013 11:17am
(JTA) — The board of directors of the New York-based Foundation for Jewish Culture reportedly has voted to close its operations next year.
The 53-year-old foundation, a resource and advocacy group for Jewish culture and the arts in the United States, will announce the closing this week, according to the New York Jewish Week.
Foundation President and CEO Elise Bernhardt told the Jewish Week that over the next year she and her staff will work to find organizations willing to take over some of the foundation’s successful programs.
- In: News
- Tags: Jewish Artist Groups
Familiar with big Jewish communities in the United State, Europe, or Israel? Ever wonder what it is like on the other side of the globe?
Over in Melbourne, Australia, screenwriter Ted Janet and illustrator Edward Rocha are producing a comic that not only tells you about the Jewish community down under, but gets into atheism and cultish behavior.
Balaclava Junction is an Australian comic book anthology intimately portraying the culture and identity of its titular suburb, famous for being the centre of Melbourne’s Jewish community.
The book combines a graphic telling of local history with biographies of noted residents such as singer-songwriter Shelley Segal, whose ‘An Atheist Album’ took unbelievers by storm, and Raphael Aron author of five books including ‘Cults: Too Good to be True’ (Harper Collins 1999) and ‘Cults. Terror and Mind Control’ (Bay Tree 2009).
- In: News
- Tags: Australia, Graphic Novels
Solo show and reception of the new series “Post Pop” by Yitzchok Moully, the Pop Art Rabbi.
Thursday, August 29, 2013
7:00pm
Hadas Gallery
541 Myrtle Ave
Brooklyn, New York 11205
Wine and cheese tasting sponsored by Royal Wine and Natural & Kosher. Live music by Craig Judelman.
Bring your friends and enjoy!
The Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art provides a stage for the creative forces that are active today and relate, in one way or another, to the Jewish world of content. Once every two years, all those interested in art, Judaism or both, will gather from around the world to enjoy a wide range of unique and revelatory works art.
The Biennale’s first event will open on the 12th of Tishrei (September 16th) just before the coming of Sukkot . Different exhibitions by different curators, in different venues around the city, all seeking to grasp “Contemporary Jewish Art”.
Why Biennale?
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- Tags: Digital Art, Israel, Jewish Galleries, Painting, Photography
How Jewish was Jew York?
28 Jul2013
by Leah Caroline
Libi bamizrach vaanochi bsof maarav.
“My heart is in the East, and I am at the ends of the West.†Yehuda Halevi (c. 1141)
We are a people of memories; standing in one place and time, remembering another. We walk, we move- without and within ourselves. Jew York, showing at Untitled and Zach Feuer galleries in New York, is an experience of distances; from the Lower East Side to Chelsea on the Western border of Manhattan. It is an experience of past, present and future.
Jew York includes an impressive list of artists; Hannah Wilke, Leon Golub, Marc Chagall, Eva Hesse, Roy Lichtenstein, Sol Lewitt and 81 others. They are all Jews who have lived at some point in New York. Select works have overtly Jewish content, but the vast majority does not. Is the identity of the artist and the name of the exhibit enough to define it as “Jewish�
The gallery Untitled proudly advertises Jewish-ness. Located on Orchard Street in The Lower East side, it is a memory of the past within the present. There are old tenement buildings, trendy modern restaurants, and stores operated by immigrants; some new to this country, others who have been in the same location for over a hundred years. The gallery has a mezuzah on the doorpost and one of the most recognizable signs of contemporary Jewish New York prominently visible through the tall front window: Casual Friday, by Isaac Brest and Louis Eisner. Casual Friday is an installation of six archival B&H Photo employee vests hanging high up on a clothesline. B&H is the iconic New York photography store owned and operated by Hasidic Jews. This piece is funny and ironic, and more importantly uses text and language. The B&H logo is like the Bet-Hei (acronym for baruch Hashem, bless G-d) we put on top of our written papers; effectively making this piece the Bet-Hei of the gallery.
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- In: Exhibition Reviews
- Tags: Hebrew, Installation, Jewish Galleries, NYC
Rome-born photojournalist Federica Valabrega has spent the last several years traveling the world photographing the unseen side of Orthodox women’s lives for her series Bat Melech (Daughters of the King). As she winds down her time in New York, Jewish News One caught up with her for a filmed interview where she discusses the project, what she has seen, and where she is headed next.
View a tremendous gallery of images from her series at this link, and be sure to visit her homepage here. View the video after the jump.
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- In: Featured Artists
- Tags: Brooklyn, Europe, Israel, NYC, Photography, Videos
Eruv Exhibit Extended Through Oct 13
17 Jul2013
extruded (an eruv project), Timeline and Map of Manhattan Eruvs from 1907 – 2012, R. Justin Stewart, New York, 2012, Nylon upholstery thread, jewelry hardware, brass hooks in masonite
It’s a Thin Line: The Eruv and Jewish Community in New York and Beyond.
Curated by Zachary Levine.
Yeshiva University Museum
15 W. 16th Street, NYC
212-294-8330
Tue – Thurs 11-5, Fri 11-2. Free Mon & Wed 5-8 pm
http://www.yumuseum.org/index.php?pg=3
http://yumuseum.tumblr.com/ItsAThinLine