Posts Tagged: jewish art
Art Exhibition: Kehinde Wiley at The Jewish Museum of New York
Kehinde Wiley is a New York-based portrait painter, who is known for his highly naturalistic paintings of contemporary urban men in heroic poses. Wiley will be having an exhibition of...
Adolf Hitler’s Lost Paintings Uncovered in Czech Republic
As a former artist, Hitler was an art lover and collector and countless paintings, many done by major European painters, were seized by the Nazis...
Pop Art Rabbi on Oprah’s Next Chapter
As a departure from what I usually do on this blog I would like to share some personal art news. The show that I curated in Brooklyn...
Dror Karta’s Play With Visual Pun
Until the advent of surrealist art around the turn of the 20th century, it was rare to see visual artists meaningfully engage with the...
Why a Jewish Artist Recreated the Charity Box
Being Jewish and an artist for me is following a family tradition that is now somehow part of Art History. To be the...
Netherlands to Return Stolen World War II Art, Seized by Hitler’s Appointed Successor
Based on a recommendation from the Dutch Restitutions Committee, the Netherlands announced on Thursday that it will be returning two paintings to a Jewish antiques...
Jewish Art: From Venice with Soul
This past summer I had the pleasure of meeting David Ariel De Guglielmi in his charming gallery in the Jewish ghetto in Venice, Italy. Batsheva...
Art Inspired by the Shtettle
What drives an artist to adopt a particular style, theme or pallet? Growing up in post war Europe to survivor parents of the Holocaust...
Street Art Meets Spiritual Practice in ‘RITUAL’
On a steamy July evening in the heart of Williamsburg Brooklyn, urban contemporary artists hailing from 7 different countries explored the subject of religious practice...
Bringing Letters to Life
Truth be told, I knew this would happen at some point - interviewing a non-Jewish artist who makes Jewish art, but I didn't think it...
Chossid + Fender
There is old school Jewish art; we all know what that looks like - an old man bent over fixing a shoe, or a dark...
Bridging the Institutional Gap: The Jewish Art Salon at the CAJM Conference
This week the Conference of American Jewish Museums was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania uniting museum directors, curators, and artists from across the country. The Jewish Art...
What is Jewish art?
This is a question any self respecting Jewish artist - and others- ask from time to time. In a time where art is going in many different directions, what is defined as Jewish art? What are the parameters that define Jewish art? What guidelines...
