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frank gehry
Will Frank Gehry build an architectural icon for Tel Aviv?
Last Thursday night, about 100 well-heeled Jewish philanthropists milled about the airy Venice studio of architect Frank Gehry. They posed for selfies beside models of buildings soon to go up in Asia and studied his newest plans — for the World’s Jewish Museum in Tel Aviv.
Oh, Canada? Jews you didn’t know were Canadian
Do you find yourself ending sentences with the sound, “eh?” Do you pronounce “about” “a-boot?” Do you feel a little smug and superior watching coverage of the American presidential election?
Moving and shaking: Helen Mirren at the IFF; LAMOTH gala; Frank Gehry is honored and more
The opening night of the 29th Israel Film Festival (IFF) drew nearly 2,000 people to the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills for a star-studded gathering of Hollywood celebrities and Jewish community leaders.
A Gehry biography with in-depth detail, but lacking in passion
I generally approach a new biography by attempting to shut out competing noise.
How the Talmud helped shape Frank Gehry
From his Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles to his Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Frank Gehry is an architect people think they know — until he surprises them again.
Calendar: October 11-17
Yeehaw! Shelley Fisher’s Hollywood journey begins in Memphis, Tenn. — and growing up Jewish in the Deep South with dreams of performing can make for a colorful childhood. This one-woman musical show, with 14 original songs by Fisher, Kenneth Hirsch and Harold Payne, is a deeply personal and hilarious ride. Directed by Chris DeCarlo.
New design set for Jerusalem tolerance museum
Architectural designs for a trimmed-down Museum of Tolerance in the center of Jerusalem, featuring massive top-to-bottom glass walls facing the city’s Independence Park, have been unveiled by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Shlub to Hero: Film Sketches Gehry Life
Gehry\’s creative solution — his psychoanalytic victory — was to embrace the delight of free-form design, while making sure that his buildings met the needs of his clients. His freedom in designing what appear to be purely sculptural objects that subsequently win rapturous praise must make him the envy of all architects who secretly wish they could find such willing clients.