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Virtual Exhibitions: Shema! and Global/Local

13, Nov 2011

  Jewish Art Now partnered up with the Jewish Art Salon to put together two exhibitions for the Global Day of Jewish Learning, Shema! and Global/Local. These virtual exhibitions are being projected at over 200 locations in 40 countries for the special event being held today. The Global Day of Jewish Learning was starting in […]

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Interview with a Pioneer of Contemporary Jewish Art, Archie Rand

9, Nov 2011

 “I had 2,000 years of commentary to draw on that no artist had touched.” Archie Rand, an established artist and pioneer for contemporary Jewish art, tells his story in an interview with Michael Stoler in “Building New York – New York Life Stories.” From the artist: “For the first 20 years or so that I […]

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Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’ Graphic Novel Released in Europe

25, Oct 2011

When last we reported on filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s long-gestating dream project Noah in February of this year, it seemed like the screen version would continue to languish in development hell. So Aronofsky, much as he did with his ambitiously religious The Fountain, began working on a graphic novel adaptation of he and frequent collaborator Ari Handel’s […]

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 […]

Yeshiva Art

13, Jul 2011

Drisha Arts Fellows Explore Shabbat By Richard McBee for the Jewish Press Drisha Institute for Jewish Education www.drisha.org   Who would have guessed that a yeshiva would have an Arts Program? If I had died and gone to heaven, surely the World to Come would look like this. And yet for seven years, on the […]

The Seventh Day: Exhibition Opening

31, May 2011

Drisha Arts Fellows Explore Shabbat Thursday June 2nd, 2011 Gallery reception 6pm Performance beginning promptly at 7pm $10 RSVP to jwynn@drisha.org Drisha Institute for Jewish Education 37 West 65th Street New York, NY 10023

The 42 Letter Name opens in DUMBO

5, Apr 2011

By SUDINmag | Tweet ROBERT  KIRSCHBAUM The 42-Letter Name APRIL 4 – JUNE 17 Opening Reception Thursday April 7 6:00 to 8:00PM MELVILLE HOUSE GALLERY 145 Plymouth Street Brooklyn, New York 718.722.9204 jim@mhpbooks.com

Had Gadya: Paintings by Archie Rand

16, Mar 2011

By SUDINmag | Tweet MARCH 6TH –MAY 8TH, 2011 OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, March 17TH THE BOROWSKY GALLERY 401 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 5:30-7:30pm FREE

Are We Living in a Golden Age of American Jewish Art?

6, Mar 2011

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 […]

Moving Talmudic Murals

17, Feb 2011

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 […]


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