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Something ‘Fishy’ going on at Shalhevet with mural honoring community leader
Jewish Journal
June 21, 2017
Making Judaism radiate with color
Kylie Ora Lobell
September 7, 2016
Hillel Smith believes art has the power to transform Judaism, and he hopes his latest creation — a 25-foot-tall mural in Pico-Robertson featuring text from ha-Motzi — can prove it.
Filling a Gallery With Faith
Jewish Journal
September 12, 2012
As you approach the Barbara Mendes Gallery on South Robertson Boulevard, you know you’re in for an experience. The brightly colored, psychedelic exterior of the little gallery in the SoRo neighborhood doesn’t cry out Jewish art, and neither does the gallery’s proprietor at first glance. Barbara Mendes looks every bit the ex-hippie, from her tie-dyed clothes to her funky glasses, but when she opens her mouth and starts chattering about kashrut and the Tehillim, you realize that you’re speaking to a woman who’s been on a journey to finding her very Jewish self and her Jewish art.
Picture looks bleak for mural adorning former JCC
Rachel Heller
August 7, 2008
The mural was meant to be a collaboration: A public arts agency led the bid for its creation, the surrounding community approved its design and Chicago artist John Pitman Weber stayed in the homes of local residents while he and a team of volunteers painted it during the summer of 1993.
Feminist ‘Scroll’ unfurled for Weisberg retrospective
Robert David Jaffee
May 4, 2007
Fifteen years since it was last exhibited at the Spertus Museum in Chicago, Ruth Weisberg\’s \”The Scroll,\” a 94-foot mixed-media painting that encompasses the Jewish feminist narrative in mural form, will be displayed at the Skirball Cultural Center as part of a mid-career retrospective of her work titled \”Ruth Weisberg: Unfurled,\” opening Tuesday, May 8.
A Boil is Lanced in Boyle Heights
Sheldon Teitelbaum
March 8, 2001
The call came in last Wednesday from one J.R. Durrer, an Encino resident who works in Boyle Heights. Durrer had been heading west up Seventh Street, where he caught a red light at the corner of South Boyle.
Mural, Mural on the Wall
Jewish Journal Staff
December 21, 2000
A new mural joins the A-list of great Jewish murals in Los Angeles.
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