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Artist Gets Out the Vote at ‘Official Unofficial’ Exhibition
“The Official Unofficial Voting Station,” artist Aram Han Sifuentes has another goal in mind: raising awareness and generating discussion of issues around what is considered a fundamental American democracy.
New Initiative CANVAS Offers Funding to Jewish Artists
$180,000 in immediate emergency relief will go to Jewish artists and creatives whose performances, exhibits and events were canceled because of COVID-19.
Give Until They Ask You to Stop – a poem for Torah Portion Vayakhel-Pekuei
Let it shine with these unique menorahs
Artists and designers in the United States and Israel are broadening and updating the ways in which we pay tribute to Judah Maccabee through the emblematic menorah, commemorating the miraculous endurance of the fabled lighting oil and the resilience that keeps Judaism’s fire lit, so to speak.
Do artists intuit scientific truths?
Jonah Lehrer\’s book, \”Proust Was a Neuroscientist,\” is based on a misunderstanding. Nonetheless, it is engaging, informed, wide ranging and altogether worth reading. At times it has the whip-smart feel of the best term paper you\’ve ever read; if only one could adjust the thesis a bit, it would settle in to what is its real nature — a provocative meditation, not a genuine discovery.
A Super ‘Schmooze’ Move
The unforgettable superheroes of comic strips became the stuff of endless Hollywood big-budget sequels. But more often than not, they began in the fevered imaginations of struggling young Jewish guys, whose wildest dreams could be hemmed in only by four panels and black ink.