By Cheryl Kaplan
Looking at Avigdor Arikha’s impressive body of work, it’s important to ask why realism fails to frame his art. He objected to using biography to clarify his work.
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By Cheryl Kaplan
It sounds like a bad joke: “What do you get if you put a kibbutznik in a stable?” The punch line, however, is anything but bad or, for that matter, a joke. For two years, the kibbutznik in question, Ofri Cnaani, has questioned the Talmud through the lens of contemporary art, and the result has transformed a former horse stable into an artistic meditation on adultery in the Talmud.
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