The Making of Kehinde Wiley's Wallscape

The Making of Wiley's Wallscape; Video by Our Man In Havana

Jewish Art Salon Board Member Ahron D. Weiner's ad agency, Our Man In Havana, recently completed a video. In 2.5 minutes it documents the making of a 35' tall handpainted wallscape on Houston and Mott Streets to promote The Jewish Museum's Kehinde Wiley The World Stage: Israel exhibit.

View the video here: http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/kehinde-wiley-video 

Jewish Exponent March 19: Holocaust / Slavery Exhibit

Hillel to Display Slavery-Holocaust Art

March 19, 2012 - Deborah Hirsch, Jewish Exponent Staff

A traveling art exhibit that examines slavery and the Holocaust opens this week at Temple University's Rosen Hillel. The project, "Transcending History: Moving Beyond the Legacy of Slavery and the Holocaust," was organized by the Idea Coalition, a group founded in 2009 to unite the black and Jewish communities through dialogues, social networking and other events.

Broadway -- The Divide by Elke Reva Sudin

 

 

 

 

After a broad-based art call late that year that drew 150 submissions from as far as Argentina and Montreal, a jury selected 40 paintings, watercolors, prints, sculptures and other mixed media for the exhibit. Since opening February 2010 at Vivant Art Collection in Old City, it has appeared at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture in Baltimore, the I.P. Stanback Museum at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg and, most recently, at the Center City law offices of Blank Rome LLP.

About 25 of the pieces will be on display at Temple, including works by nationally-acclaimed artists David Wander, Susan Shulman, Ahron Weiner and Yona Verwer, as well as by local University of the Arts sophomore Kate O'Hara.

A public opening will be held on Wednesday, March 21 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Hillel building, 1441 Norris St. 

Hillel staff are also planning additional events and guest lectures in conjunction with the exhibit, which will remain on display through the end of April. So far, those include a March 29 talk on "God and the Problem of Evil: Black and Jewish Answers" by professor Elliot Ratzman, and an April 19 Holocaust remembrance event organized by the AEPi Jewish fraternity. 

Viewers can stop by to see the art  from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the week. For additional hours, call 215-777-9797.

Silent Witnesses - Ahron D. Weiner

The spotlight on artists participating in our latest exhibit

Silent Witnesses: Synagogues Transformed, Rebuilt, or Left Behind - Artists Respond to History falls on Ahron D. Weiner.

  

A Collaborative Art Exhibit organized by the Cultural Heritage Artists Project, the Jewish Art Salon,  JWalks and the Holocaust Memorial Center. February 22 - April 14 in Metro Detroit.

THE SHOW MUST GO ON

A well-preserved Baroque-style synagogue–built in 1780–is the central feature of Luze, a small town in the Czech Republic. The building, which hosted religious services until the Nazi occupation, was converted to a leather tannery under Soviet rule. After the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the synagogue became what it remains today: a theater, and museum of regional theater, showcasing sets, costumes, and props from past productions. "Roman" helmets and armor, swords and shields, hang on the walls. A white, angel-winged cello dangles from the ceiling, above a poster advertising a 1966 performance of The Golem. 

Ahron D. Weiner at Klompching Gallery

Klompching Gallery presents FRESH, an exhibition that features the work of four new voices in contemporary photography. The smart assemblages by Ahron D. Weiner, 'Bible Adinfinitum', are colorful, bold and graphic, drawing upon the language of advertising and alluding to a mind's eye vision of the Old Testament.

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, JULY 21, 6pm—8pm
EXHIBITION DATES: JULY 20—AUGUST 13, 2011
11 Front Street, Suite 206, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (DUMBO).