Art
How I Became a “Jewish” Artist
Pin It Once upon a time I was an artist in New York City. I lived in a fifth floor walk up with one bathroom that I shared with three... Read More »
Video Travel Diary: A Road Trip Across Israel
Pin It Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg of The Atlantic captures the essence of this fast-paced emotional travel diary of Israel, “This IsReal”.  In her subsequent interview of the director, Filmmaker Matthew Brown brings... Read More »
REVIEW: Herb & Dorothy
Pin It A cute elderly couple coming from very minimal means + a love for art = one of the world’s greatest collections of modern minimalist art Read More »
The Symbolism of a Diamond Dreidel
Pin It Last Monday, Mervis Diamond Importers unveiled the world first ever Diamond Dreidel. When I saw this piece of Judaica, I first thought about what a Dreidel meant to... Read More »
My End-of-Summer visit to Valmadonna at Sotheby’s by Menachem Butler
Pin It [Note: I highly recommend watching the Sotheby's video about the exhibit ~DW] Several months ago I mentioned at the Michtavim blog about the Valmadonna Trust Library, its custodian,... Read More »
Ambiguity in Art vs Ambiguity in Torah
A discussion of ambiguity in Torah and in Art- and whether or not it works completely Read More »
Art Show at the Museum of the Underground Prisoners
Pin It Just when you think you’ve seen all that Jerusalem has to offer, along comes a surprise in the most unusual of spaces. For weeks, the Jerusalem municipality has... Read More »
Art of the Week – Candlelighting
Pin It Mother and Daughter “They light the candles and focus together One guides one learns Two burn&# Read More »
Happy Birthday Marc Chagall
Pin It Moshe Shegal (latter changed to Chagall)l was a Russian-Belarusian-French painter of Jewish origin, who was born in Belarus on July 7th 1887. Chagall took inspiration from Belarusian folk-life,... Read More »
Waltz with Bashir: A non-review
Pin It A challenge is to talk about a movie without divulging any information about said movie. That is the problem with “Waltz with Bashir”, an animated movie I saw... Read More »
Mapping the Holy Land
Pin It With the Spertus Museum‘s recent “censorship” of its exhibit of Holy Land maps, it is especially nice to see that famous (and autistic) artist Stephen Wiltshire has drawn... Read More »
The Blessing of a Broken Heart Hits the Stage
Pin It Award Winning Book by Terror Victim’s Mother Comes to NY and DC Stage Seven years ago, Koby Mandell, the 13 year old son of Sherri and Rabbi Seth... Read More »
Haman’s Cup Found Under 70 Year Old Briton’s Bed
Pin It OK, that headline was just to grab your attention. I have no way of proving the Cup belonged to Haman from the Purim story in Megillath Esther (or... Read More »
Crunching the Jewish Art Numbers
Pin It For those of you who haven’t stumbled across the great toy in Google Trends, I highly recommend it. I’ve crunched the numbers below to try to illustrate where... Read More »
What Jews Should Know About Brazil’s Entry From This Year’s Academy Awards
Pin It There was a lot of buzz around this year’s Academy Awards. One of the films that was generating a significant amount of buzz because of its unusualness was... Read More »
Stained Glass Windows, More Than Just a Work of Art.
Pin It Art has been a constant in my life for as long as I can remember in many different mediums. Stained Glass was introduced when my grandfather retired and... Read More »
Thoughts
Pin It I have a revelation to make I wouldn’t tell this to just anybody most people would find this ridiculous and think me either mad or joking Read More »
Chag Sameach
Pin It Chag Sameach (Happy Holidays) from all of us at [*picture drawn by Talya Weinberg on Facebook's graffiti application Read More »
