This is the Forward’s coverage of the visual arts, including painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, and crafts.
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The Schmooze Slideshow: Comics, Papercuts and Prayer
That’s not just vibrant color peeking out through artist Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik’s papercuts — that’s Flash Gordon, the Green Lantern, Spiderman and Wolverine. Brynjegard-Bialik, whose “Paper Tefillah” exhibition opens January 10 at Temple Israel in Memphis, Tenn., combines the traditional art of papercutting with the power of comics to explore prayer and the human striving for…
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The Schmooze Lynne Avadenka’s Jerusalem Calendar
Detroit-based printmaker and book artist Lynne Avadenka, whose previous projects have dealt with Hebrew and Arabic typography, exhibited recent works this week at the Jerusalem Print Workshop in the city’s Musrara neighborhood. The works are a culmination of her fellowship at the American Academy in Jerusalem. “I’d originally considered a project connected to the names…
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The Schmooze Are Bob Dylan’s Asia Paintings Stunningly Unoriginal?
The Bob Dylan fan world has been abuzz recently about the musician’s exhibit of paintings at the Gagosian Gallery in New York, and whether those paintings are copied from historic photographs. In a discussion on the Dylan fan site Expecting Rain, similarities have been noted between paintings in the show and pictures by photographers such…
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The Schmooze Looted Paintings Returned to Poland
Two oil paintings stolen by the Nazis 67 years ago from the walls of Poland’s National Museum in Warsaw were returned Thursday night to the people and government of Poland in a ceremony held at the Polish consulate in New York. Polish artist Julian Falat painted the works, “The Hunt” and “Off to the Hunt”…
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The Schmooze How Felix Lembersky Smuggled Jewish Motifs Into Soviet Art
The Ukrainian Jewish painter Felix Lembersky (1913-70), whose works are currently on view through December 23 at the Rubin-Frankel Gallery at Boston University, offers ideas and issues to contemporary viewers aside from the simple beauty of his work. As I will explain in a lecture this evening, Lembersky came of age and spent his career…
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The Schmooze In the Beginning There Was Abstraction
It may be a miracle: A biblically themed exhibit has opened in Brooklyn without any mention of Adam and Eve. This month the new “Genesis” exhibit opened at the Hadas Gallery in Fort Greene. The absence of the imagistic leaf-clad duo on the white walls of the intimate space was a welcomed departure from typical…
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The Schmooze Impressionistic Paintings With a New York Kick
The rhythm and verve of working-class New York street life is vividly displayed in artist Dena Schutzer’s new solo show at the Bowery Gallery in Chelsea. In almost two dozen drawings and oil paintings — on view through October 1 — Schutzer gives an impressionistic glance into daily urban life: a woman braids a man’s…
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The Schmooze Slideshow: Leon Bibel’s Artworks for Social Justice
The Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration is well known for having supported artists such as Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston and Mark Rothko, and for having helped produced some of the most significant American artworks of the 20th century. One of the less-known WPA artists was Leon Bibel (1913-1995), a painter, printmaker and…
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