Painting Lives
Artist helps clients mark pivot points, from bar mitzvah dreams to a dying wish. Lisa Keys / JTA Tue, 06/12/2012Lori Loebelsohn enters other people’s lives at pivotal moments: a marriage, a milestone...
View ArticleSquandered Gifts and Fathers in the Sky: Eleanor Antin’s Performative Art
As one of the first artists to re-introduce autobiography to the art world during the late 1960s, Eleanor Antin created an imaginary theatre interweaving personal and political narratives.read more
View ArticleTwo Israeli Painters To Watch
This year’s MFA exhibition at The New York Studio School, which opened on Wednesday night, includes two Israeli painters working with specifically Jewish or Israeli themes. Leah Raab paints...
View ArticleA Showcase Of Arts And Texts
How does an Orthodox center for rich and rigorous Jewish learning reach out to self-styled artists who are often in the margins of communal life?read more
View ArticlePainting By Letter
“The beauty, meaning and form of Hebrew letters are the source of inspiration for Ric Pliego’s “Gematria” series, now on exhibit at El Taller Latino Americano. Based on the Hebrew numerological...
View ArticlePsalmic Muse
Keeping in mind the Chasidic custom of reciting Psalms during the days leading to Yom Kippur, now would be a perfect time to head up to the scenic Derfner Judaica Museum for Archie Rand’s visual...
View ArticleParsing The Unseen
Born in the United States, artist and teacher Leah Raab has twice gone on aliyah for extended periods, and twice returned to the U.S. Nevertheless, life in Israel, its landscape, religion and history,...
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