Visual Art
An artist in exile talks Tu B’Shvat tarot and working from her childhood home
“Fairy tales are also helpful in this time,” Deutsch said. “Imagination is a really important tool for hope.”
When LA locked down, he started taking photos.
“People have a sense of the significance of the time we’re living through, and with that comes a need or desire to document it for posterity.
Instagram Influencer Elizabeth Sutton Talks Judaism, Divorce And Art
After her divorce, Sutton took her art into consumer product.
A Holocaust Art Exhibit Was Vandalized, Again And Again. But Vienna Is Fighting Back.
On May 26, a public art installation in Vienna featuring portraits of Holocaust survivors was slashed with a knife. It wasn’t the first attack.
The Art Of The Steal: How Trump’s Plot To Destroy The NEA Robs America
George Will writes that the public should not fund art. The Torah begs to differ.
Mystical Gardening and Digital Art
Allen Hirsh, a biophysicist and artist, studied Jewish mysticism as a young neurophysiology student at Columbia University. Today he generates digital art using mathematical formulas.
Susan Bee Paints the Spaces Between People
In many ways, “Criss Cross: New Paintings,” Susan Bee’s current exhibit at Accola Griefen Gallery, has its origins in her 2006 exhibit, “Seeing Double: Paintings by Susan Bee and Miriam Laufer.” “Seeing Double” was a mother-daughter dialog between Bee and Laufer, who died in 1980. “Criss Cross” also begins with Laufer, through a painting titled “Ahava, Berlin.”
Jewish Art or Jewish Kitsch?
‘Jew York’ is a treasure trove of beautiful work by 75 artists at two galleries. It’s a shame that the show chooses to be glib rather than insightful.
Drawing London Before and After Gentrification
“London seems to be in my bloodstream,” said artist Leon Kossoff. “It is always moving — the skies, the streets, the buildings. The people who walk past me when I draw have become part of my life.”
Artist Channa Horwitz Dies at 80
Channa Horwitz, who died last week, went out with a flurry of laurels. For a woman who worked in relative isolation until her 70s, it is a considerable achievement.