In the stark black-and-white photo, two small children play in and around water, as children anywhere might do on a hot day. But there\’s something odd about the image: it isn\’t the shore or a recreational pool they\’re playing in, but a concrete irrigation canal.
Created in 1973, \”Caught in the Act\” juxtaposes a 36-minute video with accompanying still photography and stars Eleanor Antin as a prima ballerina performing a series of ballet poses for the camera.\”Caught in the Act\” is one of Antin\’s signature video works to be included in the Getty Center\’s \”California Video\” survey exhibition, March 15-June 8.
Calendar Girls picks, clicks and kicks for February 16 – 22
A woman of biblical beauty, a dark-eyed Ethiopian gazing directly at the camera, appears on the cover of a new book of photographs, \”Transformations: From Ethiopia to Israel\” by Ricki Rosen (Reality Check Productions, $45). She\’s wearing white embroidered robes, her hair covered with a kerchief. Flip to the back cover and fast forward 13 years, and the woman, with the hint of a smile, is dressed fashionably in an orange sweater, her hair falling loosely in tiny braids.
Shortly after famed photographer Roman Vishniac died in 1990, his daughter Mara checked through his New York apartment. In the bottom drawer of a file cabinet she found a bundle of folders and envelopes labeled \”Berlin.\”Some 40 of the Berlin photos, first curated by Aubrey Pomerance at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, are now on exhibit through Dec. 14 at UCLA Hillel\’s Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts.
\”It\’s terrible being far away,\” said Israeli-born photographer Elinor Milchan, about watching the news of last summer\’s Israel-Hezbollah war on CNN or Fox. \”They only show you brief moments of terror. They don\’t show you in-between moments that give you strength.\”
Leonard Nimoy became one of the staunchest advocates of the landmark\’s mammoth renovation and expansion project, along with his wife, Susan Bay Nimoy, donating $1 million toward its new Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon theater.
\”Passages Between the Past and Future: Photography by Bedouin Children of Abu Kaf, Israel,\” at the Venice Arts Gallery.
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