Boyle Heights’ Jewish history celebrated with exhibition in the neighborhood
Eitan Arom
June 14, 2017
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Artists wrestle with own visions after studying story of Jacob’s Ladder
Jewish Journal
February 17, 2016
Struggles aren’t necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes they can even provide inspiration.
Artists from inside the concentration camps
Tom Tugend
January 9, 2013
The Nazis gassed and murdered 1 million prisoners at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex, but they could not kill the human urge to create and leave behind a sign of their existence for future generations. Some 20 examples of the prisoners’ artistic legacy are on display in the exhibition “Forbidden Art,” continuing through Jan. 31 at UCLA Hillel and the neighboring St. Alban’s Episcopal Church.
Artists Converge After ‘The Passion’
David Finnigan
March 31, 2005
Christian children wearing their Sunday best for last week\’s Easter services understandably could forget, amidst their Easter egg hunts, that the Last Supper of Jesus was a Passover seder.
But in this season of Easter and Passover, connections between the holidays has inspired an art exhibit showcasing Christian and Jewish artists motivated by religious themes. The exhibit is housed in downtown Los Angeles at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Its aspirations and the artworks themselves are impressive, though the effort has suffered from uneven presentation of the artwork.
The \”Passion/Passover\” exhibit could be viewed as a positive response to Jewish-Catholic tensions surrounding last year\’s \”The Passion of the Christ\” by filmmaker Mel Gibson. His film was praised by Catholic church officials, though many Jewish leaders said the film unreasonably cast Jews as villains.
Esther Netter: A One-Woman Dynamo
Marc Ballon
June 3, 2004
Time is running out for Esther Netter. On June 6, the Zimmer Children\’s Museum will unveil its most ambitious art exhibit in its 14-year history to an expected sellout crowd of 300. As if that wasn\’t enough, the Zimmer\’s executive director must simultaneously ready her organization for independence from the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Los Angeles (JCCGLA), an outfit that for years has provided important services to Zimmer at heavily discounted rates.
Seated in a conference room with two Zimmer executives, Netter gave a progress report on the last-minute preparations for \”Show & Tel: Art of Connection,\” which will feature 179 telephones transformed into artworks by the likes of musician Alicia Keys, actress Elizabeth Taylor and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The funky phones, up for auction, will benefit youTHink, an art-based social issues program for third- to-12th-graders (see sidebar below).
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