Who Will Write Our History? At the entrance to the Yad Vashem Art Museum are inscribed the following words: “As I stand on the border between life and death, certain that I will not remain alive, I wish to take leave from my friends and my works…. My works I bequeath to the Jewish museum to be built after the war. Farewell, my friends. Farewell, the Jewish people. Never again allow such a …
Israeli Art Series at the Pardes Institute
In honor of Israel's 70th birthday, a series on Israeli Art at the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem, 2019. …
“Therefore choose life…” Hadassa Goldvicht at the Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale for Art has been in existence since 1895, when it opened with one main pavilion in the area known today as the Giardini. Since 1980, when the large space of the Arsenale was added, the Biennale has been attracting close to 500,000 visitors every two years (in alternate years the Venice Biennale for Architecture is held). The Biennale has become a brand, and has served as a …
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“La Belle Juive et La Belle Arabe” Jewish Women’s Cultural Capital under Islam
Listen to a lecture I gave at a conference at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University in June 2017 entitled: “La belle Juive et la belle Arabe” — Depictions of Jewish Women in Nineteenth Century Art." …
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Interview on the Tel Aviv Review on Candlelighting
Interview with Gilad Halpern on Candlelighting in Ashkenaz https://tlv1.fm/tel-aviv-review-full-show/2015/05/22/the-beneficiaries-and-victims-of-ashkenazi-privilege-in-israel-the-tel-aviv-review/ …
Threatened Beauty
Threatened Beauty Works by Andi Arnovitz L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem March 16, 2015 through May 15, 2015 Like a flying carpet, Andi Arnovitz’ latest works transport us to a world of gem-like color, where aesthetics and destruction meet in a deceptively beautiful dystopia. Her current show, “Threatened Beauty,” which opened March 16, 2015 at the L.A. Mayer Museum for …
Daniel Silva, Gabriel Allon and the Birth of Israeli Art
What makes a work of art or literature memorable is not only the craft involved, but its truth. A work doesn't have to depict "real" events to ring true. Just recently, an example came up when I read a book by Daniel Silva, the bestselling writer of a series of thrillers based around a fictional Mossad agent and art restorer, Gabriel Allon. In Silva's "The English Girl," a minor and authentic …
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