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“Not by Words Alone”: A Visual Beit-Midrash Evening with Yehuda Levy-Aldema

30, Oct 2015

Date: Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015 Time: 5:30 PM – 7 PM Location: 55 Lexington Avenue, Room 14-270, New York, NY A native of Jerusalem, Yehuda Levy Aldema has been working as an artist in a variety of media since 1982. A graduate from Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts, his first commissions were public murals in […]

The 2015 Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art: September 24 – November 5

21, Sep 2015

The second Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art (September 24 – November 5) will showcase the work of nearly 200 Israeli and international professional artists in 10 exhibitions hosted in seven city-center venues. Following the success of the inaugural Jerusalem Biennale in 2013, Biennale2015 will continue to explore the places where contemporary art meets the […]

Watch: Tile Installation Time Lapse from Siona Benjamin

31, Aug 2015

Indian-American Jewish Painter Siona Benjamin just posted a time lapse of the tile floor she designed being installed at the Central Reform Congregation in St. Louis, Missouri. Benjamin had worked for a year on a painting that would be transferred to ceramic tile and installed. The fifteen foot in diameter artwork takes us through the […]

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 […]

Looking for the spirit of Judaism, on the canvas

28, Feb 2014

Has the secular Israeli public’s growing interest in Jewish sources trickled down into the art scene? A new exhibition in Tel Aviv tackles the question. By Eitan Buganim | Haaretz What effect has the resurgent spirit of Judaism and Jewish studies being offered by pluralistic organizations in Israel had on the art scene in this […]

FINDING THE GOOD STUFF: The work of Howard Lerner

20, Feb 2014

Lerner uses these common remnants of our civilization to create human size constructions using a Biblical narrative.

‘Reflections’ by Miriam Stern—More Than Just Flash

5, Dec 2011

Miriam Stern, Mass Moca, 2011. Oil on canvas, 48 x 36 in. Explosive and multi-dimensional, Reflections, a new series by Miriam Stern, brings attention to internal and external forms that shine. Now exhibiting at the Johnsons & Johnsons headquarters in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in a building designed by I.M.Pei (the architect of the pyramid […]

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Prophecy of Place: Quintan Ana Wikswo

13, Sep 2011

  Triptych Panel: SS Forced-Sex Brothel at Dachau, 2011 Quintan Ana Wikswo Prophecy of Place: photographs, poetry, video and assemblage August 14, 2011 – February 15, 2012 Opening Event: Monday, September 12 | 6–9pm Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011 www.cjh.org/ www.quintanwikswo.com

Ex-Haredi Artists Grapple With Their Pasts

3, May 2011

By 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 […]

JTS Exhibits Artists in Residence

2, May 2011

By 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 […]


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