Tag: art

A chabura of Baltimore's Yeshivas Ner Yisroel's Kollel Avodas Levi, recently had the unique opportunity of having the hilchos toloyim they were learning about in Shulchan Aruch come to life-literally!

The road one chooses in Art, much like life, does not necessarily determine the final destination.

Swastikas have been popping up lately in the most unusual places.

When an artist creates, intention - elementary to the creative process - is paradoxically secondary to the finished work.

Ludwig Schwarz's 2000 assemblage of seven altered thrift store-bought paintings, "Untitled (Born to Be Mild)," can be said to evoke Piet Mondrian's abstract works, which rely heavily upon a simple palette and the grid.

Art criticism is often a messy business that has a lot to do with passing judgment.

When Mark Godfrey first stumbled across Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered European Jews in Berlin, he did not recognize it.

Much like the Jewish people themselves, the legacy of Jewish Art has miraculously survived seemingly endless assaults over the past two centuries.

One of the greatest insights Jacques Derrida laid out in his conceptualization of Deconstruction was that a thing can coexist with its opposite, and in fact, neither can be properly understood without the other.

The L.A Story, a selection of works from 10 contemporary Los Angeles Jewish artists currently at the Hebrew Union College - Institute of Religion Museum, poses the question of what exactly constitutes Jewish Art and what is its condition today on the West Coast.

In a 1972 study, Stanley Milgram found that "familiar strangers" who share a repeated experience (like riding the same bus every day) are likelier to communicate when cast into an unfamiliar setting, than are two strangers with no such shared experience.

Last week, Mr. Sigmund Rolat visited his birthplace in Poland, the city of Czestochowa. As he does on every trip, he took time out to pay his respects to the local Jewish cemetery.

Could there be such a thing as Women's Art? From my liberal modernist perspective such a notion is foreign, threatening and, indeed, heretical.

When Mark Podwal showed the galleys for his book "Doctored Drawings" to a former culture editor at The New York Times (he has drawn for the op-ed page for 35 years), he suggested Podwal remove eight drawings with Jewish symbolism.

Something is blooming in Brooklyn that promises a dramatic revitalization of Jewish visual culture.

They say the best way to watch a baseball game is with food in one hand and a soft drink or beer in the...

One of the advantages museums hold over galleries is that their exhibits need not focus on one theme.

This summer, from June 23 to July 1, the city of Krakow will play host to the 17th annual Jewish Cultural Festival, which as usual, is expected to be a resounding success.

Cartoonists often draw the short straws at posh cocktail parties.

Oftentimes, the art world functions like an ecosystem, whereby certain artist-producers generate innovative, new content, and artist-consumers readily borrow from those raw materials and shape them into new products.

Holocaust art has dominated the news lately for all the wrong reasons.

"Am I a Jewish artist? A woman artist? A Jewish woman artist? Of course!

Shabbat Chess, Lighting The Torah, A Hidden Synagogue, And Ketubah Collage

Was Rembrandt a Jewish artist because he painted the Jewish wedding?

The notion of a foreground and a background in a painting is an illusion.

Is it a book, is it art, or is it both?"

It is a little known fact in the Jewish world that Poland is famous for its artistic posters.

Richard Michelson is an existential, yet guilty, sort of poet.

Ever since artists created berry juice paintings of buffalos on cave walls, seeking to offer the hunters mastery over their prey, artists have used limited, physical materials to create transcendent, idealized art.

"Take a sock at Hitler! Sock your dough in bonds and stamps!" says one comic.