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Lecture at conference on the Material Culture of North African Jews at Yad Ben Zvi September 2024

November 21, 2024 //  by susannf@gmail.com

I gave a brief pre-recorded lecture at Yad Ben Tzvi on the candle-lighting implements of Moroccan Jewish women this past September. Starts at 59 mins. The lecture is in English. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmmuM29SUSc   …

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Category: Israeli artTag: Candlelighting, Morocco, women

Shraga Weil — Rediscovered Israeli Artist

June 18, 2023 //  by susannf@gmail.com

An exhibit of the works of Shraga Weil (1918-2009),  a once-prominent Israeli artist who has receded somewhat from popular memory,  brought us this week to the rural Emek Hefer. Weil, a Holocaust survivor who studied art in his native Czechoslovakia and Paris, was a multifaceted artist and graphic designer. The exhibition at Zuzu Gallery focuses on his graphic works, some of which are in the …

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Category: Blog, Israeli art

Israeli Art at Israel’s 75th anniversary– a list

April 14, 2023 //  by susannf@gmail.com

When I was approached by the Center for Israel Education to compile a list of 75 works of Israeli art I was honored and also a bit daunted.  The compilation is part of a larger project by the Center—namely, to showcase “75” in various fields of endeavor in honor of Israel’s 75th anniversary (75 significant personalities, etc.), and it is only fitting that 75 works of art - including works created …

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Category: Blog, Israeli art

January 4, 2023 //  by susannf@gmail.com

I am honored to be participating in a webinar of the Center for Israel Education next Wednesday, January 11th, at 1 PM EST.  Here is the link for registration. I will weigh in on Israel's art scene over the years. Hope you can join! …

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Category: Israeli art, Lectures and Events

“From Rebirth to Revelation Through the Prism of Jewish and Israeli Art”

May 1, 2020 //  by susannf@gmail.com

  A three-part series held at Kol HaOt in May 2020 …

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Category: Israeli art, Past Lectures and Events

A Studio of Her Own comes into Its Own

January 9, 2020 //  by susannf@gmail.com

Sometimes a fortuitous confluence of events flows together in a way to give one pause. Such is this moment for A Studio of Her Own, a Jerusalem non-profit dedicated to helping women create, exhibit and promote their art. The organization, originally founded to give support to Jewish religious women artists, has in recent years broadened its mission to include all women artists, Jewish and …

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Category: Blog, Israeli art, Women's Art

Who Will Write Our History?

January 29, 2019 //  by susannf@gmail.com

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 …

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Category: Blog, Israeli art, Jewish Art

“Therefore choose life…” Hadassa Goldvicht at the Venice Biennale

October 13, 2017 //  by susannf@gmail.com

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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Category: Blog, Israeli art, Jewish Art

Threatened Beauty

March 5, 2015 //  by susannf@gmail.com

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 …

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Category: Blog, Israeli artTag: Andi Arnovitz, Iran, L. A, Mayer Museum for Islamic Art, Netanyahu

Daniel Silva, Gabriel Allon and the Birth of Israeli Art

August 25, 2014 //  by susannf@gmail.com

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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Category: Blog, Israeli artTag: Gabriel Allon

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