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(Secular Icons) Poster Protest Art (Liberal Israel)

Posted on March 23, 2023 by zjb

An article here at Ha’aretz about a group of graphic art and design people creating posters against the regime coup in Israel. The activists formed a group whose work is offer at this Hebrew language FB page: Democracy Will Win” … Continue reading →

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(Democracy) Red Line (Jerusalem)

Posted on March 16, 2023 by zjb

Artist-activists draw a red line in Jerusalem connecting the Russian Compoun and the Supreme Court The organizer released this startement in Hebrew which I google-translated: A red and pink stripe will be painted along the way, marking the inseparable connection … Continue reading →

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Red Sunset on the Dnieper (Dnipro) (1905-8)

Posted on August 3, 2022 by zjb

In solidarity, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has put up in “Gallery 800” this painting by Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi. “This scene shows a sunset over the river Dnieper, which originates west of Moscow and runs south into the Black Sea. … Continue reading →

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Light Object Held in Place (Helen Pashgian)

Posted on December 23, 2021 by zjb

I especially liked the two large lenses at the recent show by Helen Pashgian, an early member of the 1960s Light and Space Movement. Instead of the more diffuse light effect in the Light Art of Turrell and others, the … Continue reading →

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(Franz Marc) Fox (Holocaust)

Posted on May 3, 2021 by zjb

Thinking about Laura Levitt’s The Objects That Remain after seeing this news article here about the return of this lost property. It’s an amazing painting by German expressionist artist Franz Marc. The legal details are a little complicated and of … Continue reading →

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(Jacob Lawrence) Black Americans & the American Revolution (Struggle)

Posted on February 4, 2021 by zjb

  This richly illustrated article here by Rachel Himes at Jacobin about Struggle: From the History of the American People, the 1954-1956 series of 30 panels by Jacob Lawrence illuminating the place of Black Americans in the American Revolution. The … Continue reading →

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What Was Was Was (Gal Cohen)

Posted on July 29, 2020 by zjb

[Gal Cohen, What Was Was Was (2020)] The shredding of memory into strips seems apropos to both the current moment and to Tisha b’Av

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(Anti-Monument) Lives & Deaths of Racist Images

Posted on June 11, 2020 by zjb

. Idols and icons lead complex lives, they enact suffering and they suffer violence when screws turn. Historian and theorist of art and architecture and post-Holocaust memorialization, James Young writes here on memory and counter-memory, monuments and counter- or anti-monuments, … Continue reading →

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(Talmud & Art) Cats at Seder Behold I Bite the Mouse (Illuminated Haggadah)

Posted on April 14, 2020 by zjb

Pesach is almost done with this year but I wanted to share with my Talmud, art, and animal friends this charming little post from the amazing blogsite here at the Bodleian. These medieval illuminated images from the Haggadah are the … Continue reading →

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(Art Puppets & Middle East History) Cabaret Crusades (Wael Shawky)

Posted on February 17, 2020 by zjb

Puppets from Wael Shawky’s three-part video series Cabaret Crusades are here on view at the Met Breuer. I’m wondering about the relation between visual art and history (it could just as well be about religion and history) in a body … Continue reading →

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