The Sexuality Spectrum at the HUC Museum

The Sexuality Spectrum offers a groundbreaking exploration of sexual orientation through the creativity of over fifty international contemporary artists. Artists including Judy Chicago, Joan Snyder, Arthur Tress, Archie Rand, Albert Winn, Trix Rosen, Joan Roth, and Mark Podwal explore a broad range of subjects: the evolving social and religious attitudes toward sexuality; issues of alienation, marginalization, and inclusion; the impact on the family, child-rearing, and life stages; violence and persecution; AIDS/HIV; and the influence of the LGBTQI community on the Jewish and larger world.

Opening Reception October 10, 5:30 - 7:30 pm. Program at 6:30 pm. Exhibit on view October 10, 2012 – June 28, 2013

Some of the other artists in the exhibit: Heddy Abramowitz, Andy Arnowitz, Helene Aylon, Siona Benjamin, Carol Hamoy,  Susan Kaplow, Trix Rosen, Linda Soberman, David Wander and Joyce Ellen Weinstein.

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Inside Out: Paintings by Robert Bunkin

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 8, 2012, 2:00-5:00 p.m.

The Painting Center, 
547 West 27th Street, Suite 500, 
New York, NY 10001

Main Gallery: Inside Out: Paintings by Robert Bunkin.

Project Room: Thirty Portraits: New Works by Donna Festa

Exhibition Dates: September 4-29, 2012

Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11-6

Events:

Artists’ Dialogue: Festa and Bunkin will talk about their work, Saturday, September 15, 2012, 3:00 4:30 p.m.

Ken Goldman in Lillith Magazine

Postmodern House Rings
The Old is New Again

With women at the wall just arrested for wearing a tallit, it seems like the perfect time for Ken Goldman to be to be included in Lillith Magazine's current issue:

lilith.org/pdfs/LILSu12FINAL_HouseRings.pdf

A story about reclaiming a forgotten Jewish ritual: the medieval and pre-modern custom of grooms giving their brides “house rings” under the huppah. We’re re-purposing said house rings by means of a new wedding “justice vow” to shout out under your huppah—do it!

Who knew that two Judaica artists are still making house rings (with a post-modern twist) today? 

Deborah Ugoretz in GOBrooklynart Open Studios

GOBrooklynart Open Studios
Sept. 8 - 9th
461 Van Brunt Street, door 14
11am - 7 pm

Deborah Ugoretz is participating in the GObrooklynarts project run by the Brooklyn Museum. Come visit her studio during Saturday or Sunday where you will be able to view her work based primarily on Jewish texts. For more information go to the website; www.gobrooklynart.org

Exhibition reunites biblical art and maps development of adoration - by Richard McBee

"Exhibition reunites biblical art and maps development of adoration"

National Catholic Reporter

By Richard McBee

The Museum of Biblical Art in New York has mounted a remarkable exhibition with Bartolo di Fredi's 14th-century masterpiece, "Adoration of the Magi." This small but powerful exhibition, one of many in the seven-year history of the museum, is an exploration of exactly how a "painter of faith" narrates adoration.

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Helène Aylon: Fall Readings/Screenings 2012

Sunday, September 9, 2 p.m.
Hudson Opera House
327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534

Wednesday, October 10, 7:30 p.m.
Rose Art Museum
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Thursday, October 25, 7:30 p.m.
Rockland County JCC
450 West Nyack Road, West Nyack, NY 10994

Friday, November 9, noon
JCC San Diego, La Jolla, CA

TBA - Joint reading with Flora Biddle

To order: visit the Museum of Modern Art bookstore, the NY Jewish Museum, the Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco, The Feminist Press, or Amazon.com.

Batya F. Kuncman's Infinite Flux

We Wanted To Be Safe and Nullify the Decree
oil on canvas 2011 60" x 48"

"Infinite Flux"

Martine Chaisson Gallery
727 Camp Street
New Orleans, LA

Aug 4-Sept 29, 2012
Opening: August 4, 2012

Batya F. Kuncman is showing "Infinite Flux," a series of paintings as an investigation into corruption/beauty, destruction/renewal, and utopia/dystopia.

http://www.martinechaissongallery.com/

Mark Podwal's High Holiday Curtain at the Altneuschul

Prague's monthly journal Rosh Hodesh mentions renowned artist Mark Podwal's new High Holidays white curtain for the Altneuschul.

Photo credit: Dana Cabanova, photographer of the Jewish Museum in Prague.

"During the High Holidays, a white curtain adorns the ark.

White symbolizes purity, humility and renewal. The white ark curtain is reminiscent of the famous verse: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they will be white as wool" (Isaiah 1:18).  The Talmud recounts that on Yom Kippur when the scapegoat reached its destination in the wilderness a thread of crimson wool tied to the Temple entrance would turn white, a sign that the people’s sins had been forgiven.

The Altneuschul’s new High Holidays white curtain is embroidered with the Hebrew letters kuf lamed, an abbreviation for “Holiness to the Lord.”  Decorating the lamed is the flag of Prague’s Jewish Community.

A crown symbolizes “Ha Melech The King!” - the word, which begins the morning prayers on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

The curtain was designed by Mark Podwal, embroidered by Penn and Fletcher and funded by the Plotkin Foundation in memory of Norma and Benjamin Plotkin.

The curtain will be installed for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur".

Shlomit Dror's Exhibition at the Newark Museum

In Her Eyes: Women Behind and in Front of the Camera

Opens September 12, 2012 (Runs through April 2013)

This exhibition features photographs by women who examine female identity in their work. Representing a wide range of styles and interpretations, the images on view suggest an intimate collaboration between artist and sitter. The photographs also evoke a range of ideas related to acts of veiling, masquerade and role-play. Drawn from the Newark Museum’s collection, many of these works have never before been on view. Artists include both historical and contemporary practitioners such as Cindy Sherman, Sally Mann, Dorothea Lange, Lalla Essaydi and Ana Mendieta.

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Call for Art by WCA: Diaspora

DIASPORA – a scattering, a dispersion, a migration, a loss of homeland. Artists are asked to create original works that examine what it means to be separated from your roots, your center, your power, your ancestors, your community, your culture, your land, your home, your people – real or imagined, physical or metaphorical. Is repatriation or reconciliation possible? Desired? Wide interpretations are encouraged.
 
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: “Diaspora” is part of WCA's national WCA Conference that takes place from February 13-16, 2013 in New York, NY. The Women’s Caucus for Art Conference is held in conjunction with the College Art Association (CAA) Conference. WCA is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization and an affiliate society of CAA.
 
JUROR: Laura Kruger, curator at Hebrew Union College Museum.

Portraits Of Remembrance: Paintings by Diana Kurz

By Richard McBee

Reaching back in time to reclaim a family for herself and, in a yahrzeitmoment, to rekindle lives snuffed out, Diana Kurz’s paintings stand as testaments to victims of the Holocaust. After a successful 20 year career as an artist and teacher, (with a strong feminist bent), in 1989 Kurz happened upon a few surviving photos of her own relatives “who disappeared during the war.” Suddenly her past opened up and possessed her. This spring (April 4 – May 2, 2012) a series of these paintings was shown at the Art Gallery at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY. Article continues here.

Wraithworld - new paintings by Michael Hafftka

Opening Reception Saturday, September 8th, 6- 10pm

September 8th- September 26th, 2012.

Vaudeville Park, 26 Bushwick Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11211
347-725-4399 www.vaudevillepark.org

Vaudeville Park is pleased to present Wraithworld, a solo exhibition of new paintings by artist, musician, and writer Michael Hafftka. Comprised of ten figurative paintings on stretched and unstretched canvas, all created within the past year, the exhibition draws from the full repertoire of themes and characters that Hafftka developed over three decades.