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The Graphic Novel by JT Waldman JT Waldman’s Megillat Esther is brash, loud and groundbreaking.  Created as a graphic novel it is the first time the megillah has been illustrated in this radical late 20th century art form.  Nonetheless, the question remains; can a comic…
Feinsmith Quartet at Merkin Concert Hall Daniel David Feinsmith To encounter God is an elemental quest of mankind.  And yet for Jews it is paradoxically impossible and immediate.  In any physical sense we know that “…no human can see My face and live” (Exodus 33:20) even…
Paintings and Objects by Lynn Russell Lynn Russell’s current exhibition at the Chassidic Art Institute challenges us with a piety that resists all easy answers.  First there are the Baruch HaShem pieces, highly unusual collaged texts combining letters, images and objects that somehow lead us…
Bible Scenes “And the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.”  Rabbi Tarphon said: That fish was specially appointed from the six days of creation to swallow up Jonah… He entered its mouth just as a man enters the great synagogue, and he…
The Passion of Leah Ashkenazy “…There is just something about that little girl that I can’t get out of my mind. How does she face those fire-breathing beasts?”  Four and a half years ago I wrote about Leah Ashkenazy’s painting, The End of Childhood as a…
Terna's Touch Frederick Terna has a soft touch.  His images are neither strident nor angry.  The horror behind many of them is paradoxically softened by symbols and metaphors.  He is not an illustrator; indeed much of his work over the last sixty years is abstract. …
Chava Roth's Meanings Pleasure and Meaning.  In the visual arts they are equally essential.  The pleasure of looking at an object, its contours, colors, texture and subsequent visual excitement is fundamental to engaging the viewer.  Lacking visual enjoyment and complexity a painting, drawing or print…
Eisenberg’s Space Space is created in the visual arts in a multitude of ways.  Illusionistic space was invented in the Renaissance and continues to be depicted in contemporary realism. This method creates the impression of looking through a window and seeing an ordered progression of…
Lynn Russell: A Growing Unease Lynn Russell's work presents a vexing aesthetic problem. She insists on treading the murky line between photography and painting; between mechanical reproduction and handmade creation. Hardly alone, her quest is in fact one of the major discourses of Modern Art.…
Shoshana Golin’s Windows Shoshana Golin’s cycle of etched glass windows at the Young Israel of Hillcrest fill the fifty year old sanctuary with light and textual meaning that transforms the synagogue space, illuminating a new environment for the congregation. Women’s Section, 2005, etched glass windows by…
Paintings by Lloyd Bloom Perspective is crucial to understanding.  When Jews greet one another with “vos macht a yid?” it means something entirely different than the jeers of "yid" in the streets of Berlin.  The one point perspective in early Renaissance painting defined an individualistic…

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