In Search of Sugihara - Lecture by Hillel Levine at Derfner Museum

Kovno by Jonathan Hammer

In Search of Sugihara will take place June 4, in conjunction with the exhibition, "Jonathan Hammer: Kovno-Kobe," on view in the Derfner Judaica Museum through July 29.

The exhibition includes pastels, drawings, etchings and a bifold screen inspired by events during World War II, when the Japanese Consul in Kovno, Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara, issued 2,140 handwritten travel visas in the summer of 1940 to mostly Polish refugees in the city allowing them to escape from almost certain death.

Aaron Roller's Yeshiva High School Poetry Slam

Aaron Roller, previous editor of Mima’amakim, an intercollegiate Jewish poetry journal, with whom the Jewish Art Salon has collaborated on several projects, founded the Yeshiva High School Poetry Slam.


“I know that kids interested in the arts are frequently in the minority in their schools, and could benefit from meeting kids in their interest group from other schools,” Roller said. Working with a teacher at YUHSB and the assistant principal at Rambam Mesivta, his alma mater, Roller organized a test slam at Rambam last year. In 2011-2012, there have been three poetry slams. He and Dena Weiss, a Frisch graduate and former co-editor of “Mima’amakim,” serve as judges.


Read article here

Brooklyn Museum Invites Brooklyn Artists - Opportunity

The Brooklyn Museum Invites Brooklyn Artists to Open Their Studios for Community Members and Curators to Collaborate on an Exhibition.

May 18, 2012, Brooklyn,---The Brooklyn Museum is launching a borough-wide initiative in which Brooklyn-based artists will be invited to open their studios, allowing community members to visit and nominate artists for inclusion in a group exhibition to be held at the Museum. Brooklyn Museum curators will visit the studios of top nominated artists to select works for the exhibition. The open studio weekend for GO: a community-curated open studio project will be held September 8 and 9. The exhibition will open during Target First Saturday on December 1, 2012, and will be on view through February 24, 2013. 
 

My Jewish Art Criticism Dénouement by Menachem Wecker

I am very sorry to hear that Menachem Wecker is leaving the Jewish Press. He and Richard McBee took turns writing the art column each week.

I could usually tell just by the title of the piece whether it was Menachem's or Richard's: if it provoked a burst of laughter, it was guaranteed Menachem's. (And I mean that in the most positive way!). The Jewish Art Salon fervently hopes he will continue his incisive art observations elsewhere.

Read his final article here

Yona Verwer

Howard Lerner's Myth & Metaphor

Lerner's exhibition focuses on his work with found object sculpture incorporating Scripture and Midrashic tales.  New paintings deal with similar themes including his focus on Yoga.

Reception: Thursday June 7, 5:30-7:30 PM


Synchronicity Fine Arts
106 West 13th St. (Btw 6th & 7th Ave.)
New York, NY 10011


June 6 through July 7, 2012

International Jewish Artist of the Year Award Exhibition

Creating Adam & Eve

London's  Ben Uri Gallery opened May 9th with its IJAYA exhibit. Ruth Schreiber is showing a new animation video called "Creating Adam and Eve", based on Midrashim concerning the Creation of Man. It can be seen on her website  under Digital media/Videos. Dov Abramson has work in the exhibit as well.

108A Boundary Road, St. John's Wood, London NW8 0RH 
May 9 - May 27, 2012. Hours: 10-5pm M-F

Skirball's Artists Beit Midrash Exhibit opens June 5