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Gray Fox Walks by Isaac Peterson

 Isaac Peterson finished a children's book and wants to fund its publication through Kickstarter. His is a poetic children's story all in black and white.  

 You can see the project at the link below:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2032587160/gray-fox-walks



David Sears' Solo Exhibit in the Catskills

The opening, replete with live klezmer music and watermelon, will be on the Sunday May 26th, from 12-5. The exhibit will be on view until the end of June. 
Zoom Gallery, 1164 Main Street, Fleischmanns, NY. 

Sears will be showing a number of paintings and illustrations, both representational and abstract, and over 40 photographs. The village is about a 30 min. drive west of Woodstock on Route 28 and about 45 min. from Kingston. More info on the artist here. 



Opening of Ben Uri's Permanent Collection Gallery

View recent acquisitions in Ben Uri's permanent 
collection gallery on Thursday 23rd May from 6:30-8:30pm 
Ben Uri Gallery and Museum: Art, Identity, Migration.
108A Boundary Road (off Abbey Road), St John's Wood, London NW8 0RH
Current Exhibition:
'Boris Aronson and the Avant-garde Theatre: Costume and Stage Designs, c.1917 Kiev - 1929 New York'
Hours: Monday 1-5:30, Tuesday - Friday 10-5.30, Sunday 12-4. Free Entry to all Ben Uri exhibitions. www.benuri.org.uk




Touched by the Holocaust

An exhibit featuring 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation artists related to survivors of the Shoah.

May 19- August 15, 2013

Presented by: Synagogue for the Arts

Opening Reception and Curator's Talk:
Sunday, May 19 6:00-9:00pm

49 White Street, New York, NY 10013
East Meets West


Paintings by international portraitist Laurel Sternberg

Olam Einan, Canion Azrieli Modiin


May 26-June 26, 2013  
hours: 18:00-21:00
Info here




Rocketchair Media's New Ipad App: The Tell-Tale Heart

 The Tell-Tale Heart follows up the success of Rocket Chair Media's debut app, The Metamorphosis for iPad, as an interactive, illustrated and pageless version of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story.
Highlighting its iconic imagery, but not literalizing its action—with the complete, original text embedded throughout— this presentation of a man's journey evaluating his own madness invites a reader to experience narrative with a richness and tactility only possible through multimedia touch screens. To unfold the story, readers gesture through an expansive illustrated environment. By pinching, swiping and rotating in all directions, The Tell-Tale Heart animates in both space and time – adding new layers of meaningful metaphoric content to Poe's world. More info: http://rocketchairmedia.com/


Noaj Sauer's Five Months in New York at Aish NY

Opening Reception May 20, 6 PM

 Aish Center, 313 West 83rd Street
New York, NY

 May 20-June 20, 2013

http://israelnoajsauer.tumblr.com




Above The Standard

Solo art show created by  Ari Hauben, artist and Boston Public School art teacher, which responds to the detrimental effects of the increasingly standardized and mechanized worlds of education and society.
Hauben investigates this theme through installations and artwork created from the very things we usually associate with standard education: desks, tests, grades, etc. In addition this examination  leads through different styles of Hauben’s multimedia works covering a broad spectrum of topics that reflect his creative response to working “above the standards”.
May 5th-June 1st
 Thurs & Fridays 5 – 10PM  Sat 12-6PM  Sunday 12-5PM

50 Melcher Street, Boston MA, 02210 (Corner of A & Melcher st.)

More info here



NY Times article on Marisa Scheinfeld's photography
"They were the grand palaces of her childhood, the fortress hotels where her family celebrated Jewish holidays, where a girl from the Catskills could run wild or hear stories about how her grandparents met. She learned to swim in the pool at one hotel and worked as a summer lifeguard at another. Then, when she left for college on the West Coast, Marisa Scheinfeld, 32, found herself “grappling with homesickness.” Continue article here.

 Sh'ma Journal's Covenant issue features Judith Joseph's art  
Chicago-based artist Judith Joseph, who currently has an exhibit at New York's Kraft Center, organized by the Jewish Art Salon, has an online exhibit of her unique ketuba art at http://shma.com/

 More about her Kraft Center exhibit here.



Invitation to launch for Neil Folberg's new book, "Serpent's Chronicle"
Monday, May 20, 2013 18:30-21:00 at Vision Gallery, Jerusalem.
(the gallery is open from 1 - 9 PM Monday, May 20, 2013) 

Opening of Serpent's Chronicle Exhibition at the Rubin Museum in Tel Aviv, July 18, 2013. More info here.



It's All About Energy with Tamar Hirschl, Haim Elisha & others

May 8–21, 2013
Onishi Gallery: 521 W. 26th Street, New York, NY 10001
Opening reception: May 9, 6–8pm
Curated by Stefania Carrozzini. 
The exhibition is composed of 26 artworks; photography, sculptures, installations and paintings by 11 international artists.
For more information: http://onishiproject.com/exhibits/ 
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Shanee Epstein, Off the Wall
May 16 - June 23, 2013
Opening Reception: Sunday May 18, 4-7pm

440 Sixth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215


Love Paintings by Robert Bunkin

is coming to the LGBT Community Center, Staten Island,
25 Victory Blvd, 
May 11-June 3, 2013. 
(M-F, 1-8pm. Please call 718-808-1360 to confirm opening times.)

Opening Reception is part of Second Saturdays: May 11, from 6-9 PM.



Siona Benjamin in South-East Women Exhibit

Text Embodied: Transformation of Text into an Experience of Art 

Twelve Gates Arts

51 N. 2nd St.

Philadelphia, PA 19106
Tel:215 253 8578





Barbara Freedman's solo show in Sag Harbor, NY

 The John Jermain Library will feature Freedman's art work from May 2 till June 3.
Mixed media combining paint, photography and text.

 Opening reception May 11, 3-5 PM.
Jac Lahav's Gwyneth Paltrow triptych in Berlin 

The work is on view at the group show “Dismantling” at Gallery Jarmuschek+Partner.
April 27-June 15, Tue–Sat 12:00–18:00


Halle am Wasser
10557 Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 50/51






Neil Folberg's book Serpent's Chronicle is available now.
Festive book launch in Jerusalem, May 20, 2013, 6 - 9 PM

The story of Adam and Eve powerfully retold in photographs, from an unexpected viewpoint.
Seen through the eyes of the Serpent, Folberg presents Adam and Eve as Everyman and Everywoman, in a time and place at once archetypal and contemporary and shows us that the story of Eden is the true prototype of every human relationship and endeavor. For this ambitious exercise in pictorial storytelling, acted by modern dancers and set in a wild Mediterranean valley, Folberg draws upon the full range of his artistic resources as a photographer in color and black and white, and of the landscape, the human figure, and even the night sky; the result, according to ARTnews, is a series of “lush depictions” that use “subtle anachronism, metaphor, and theatricality to memorable effect.” More info here.



Susan C. Dessel a 2013-2014 Frankel Institute Fellow


Each year, the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan invites scholars to Ann Arbor to pursue research projects on a general theme. For 2013-2014, the group - led by U-M History Professor Deborah Dash Moore - will gather around the theme of “New Perspectives on Gender & Jewish Life.” Included among the 2013-2014 invitees is NYC visual artist susan c. dessel. During her fellowship Dessel will create conceptual art based on her research of Martha Gruening (1889-1937): suffragette, journalist, and civil rights activist. 
        “This year, the Frankel Institute plans to extend questions stimulated by gender to traditional aspects of Jewish studies, such as bible, rabbinics, politics, literature, and history as well as to new areas of Jewish studies, such as diaspora, cultural, performance, and migration studies,” explains Dash Moore. “Not only women but also men and masculinity, sexuality and the sexual politics of Jewish identity are topics for study. We see this year as a chance to build on existing scholarship as well as to move research on Jews and gender into relatively unexplored areas, such as the senses, emotions, and new media.” More info here. 



The Herbert & Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica in NYC features a Spring exhibition called The Writing on the Wall: Early Modern Broadsides from the Valmadonna Trust Library. 

 It will be on view from May 1 - September 30, 2013.
Location: One East 65th Street, Second Floor (between Fifth and Madison Avenues)Telephone: (212) 744-1400, ext. 259. Hours: Open Sunday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

 Albright Knox acquires second Tobi Kahn painting

  


Susan Schwalb on the J Art Blog



The J Art Blog features Susan Schwalb: Art Emerges from Jewish Identity.

Though Susan Schwalb says she has never thought of herself as a religious person, she identifies with her Jewishness, even if her artwork doesn’t carry specific Jewish themes.

But some of her work emerges from personal experience. Creation #6 (left) covers a theme that has fascinated artists for hundreds of years. Clear references to the tablets of Moses are central to the artwork. As her inspiration, she points to the illuminated medieval manuscript known as the Sarajevo Haggadah, which was composed in Barcelona and carried into exile by a Jewish family in 1492 until it reached its final home in the Bosnian capital.
For rest of blog post


Blue Like Me Film- The Art of Siona Benjamin

Blue Like Me is a documentary that will profile Siona Benjamin, an artist, who was raised in a near mythical 2000 year old Jewish community in India.

For trailer
Facebook page


 Siona Benjamin's Passage from India
Asian Arts & Culture Center

Center for the Arts, Room 2037 
Towson University, Towson, MD 21252
Phone: 410-704-2807 
Hours: Monday-Friday, 11- 4; Saturday, 1-4 
Works by Siona Benjamin and Maureen Drdak. Both are global artists and 2011 Fulbright scholars. Benjamin's exhibition, Blue Like Me, features a mosaic work inspired by both Indian miniature paintings and Sephardic icons that reflect her Indian and Jewish backgrounds. Drdak's exhibition, The Flying Nagas, incorporates the first synthesis of ancient metalwork of Nepal and contemporary painting. 
Artist Talks and Reception on Saturday, April 13, 2 - 4 p.m. 
Benjamin will also present a pre-exhibition dance performance entitled Color Me Blue at the University Union PAWS on Friday, April 12 at 8 p.m.

Ruth Weisberg
Weisberg’s Visions - Review by Richard McBee
 
There is a special class of Jewish artists who toil in the rich fields of Tanach and Jewish practice for years and years, quietly establishing a foundation of visual and intellectual markers for generation of artists to come. Ruth Weisberg is clearly one of these founders. Her seminal work articulates an approach to the Jewish narrative deeply informed by a Jewish feminism.



Siona Benjamin is ARTNews Critics Pick for April 2013
Sasha Andrea's documentary on Jewish poverty is reviewed on the Huffington Post blog here.



Some Things Seen in Israel: Photographs by Burt Allen Solomon

 On view April 14 – July 28, 2013

 Opening Reception and Artist’s Talk at the Derfner Judaica Museum
Sunday, April 14, 3:30 - 5 p.m.

The Hebrew Home at Riverdale announces its latest exhibition in celebration of the 65th Anniversary of the State of Israel. 

Please R.S.V.P to 718.581.1596 or art@hebrewhome.org mail to: art@hebrewhome.org.



Ellen Holtzblatt

Jewish Cultural Aspirations, USC Casden Institute Annual Review, Volume 10.

Matthew Baigell, Emeritus Professor of Art History at Rutgers University, wrote about Holtzblatt's series, Hamabul, in his essay, "We Are Living in a Golden Age of American Jewish Art and Don't Really Know It"



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