Peres Center and Keter Group Launch Contest for Artists Across the Middle East
The Peres Center for Peace & Innovation and Israeli company Keter this week issued an open call for artists and designers across the Middle East, to take part in a visual art project titled...
Comic-Con Online: Art & the Holocaust
When Art Spiegelman first proposed Maus, his two-volume graphic novel about the Holocaust, people asked how he could tackle a subject so dark, weighty and personal with comics. I think a more important question is: What...
Becky Guttin at the 29th Annual Juried Exhibition
BECKY GUTTIN so proud to have received the LESLIE VON KOLB MEMORIAL AWARD
It's with great pleasure that I share with you the recent recognition that I was given at the 29th Annual Juried Art...
Large archive of Moscow State Yiddish Theater now online
דער „בלאַוואַטניק־אַרכיוו“ האָט לעצטנס געשטעלט אויף דער אינטערנעץ הונדערטער בילדער פֿון חפֿצים פֿאַרבונדן מיט דער געשיכטע פֿונעם מאָסקווער ייִדישן מלוכה־טעטאַער („גאָסעט“). די אַרטיפֿאַקטן, וואָס נעמען אַרײַן הונדערטער פֿאָטאָגראַפֿיעס, סצענאַרן, בראָשורן, צייכענונגען און אַפֿישן, ווי אויך ביכער...
Steven Spielberg, Una legenda sinematografika
Todos los ke aman el cinema tienen sus aktores i aktrisas preferidos, los filmos ke amaron lo mas, las salas de sinema ke les gustan irsen ets. Ma no todos konosen ken estan detras...
July 7, 1887: Marc Chagall was born
Marc Chagall, (born July 7, 1887, Vitebsk, Belorussia, Russian Empire —died March 28, 1985, Saint-Paul, Alpes-Maritimes, France), Belorussian-born French painter, printmaker, and designer who composed his images based on emotional and poetic associations, rather than on rules of...
July 6, 1907: Frida Kahlo, considered one of Mexico’s greatest artists, was born
Artist Frida Kahlo was considered one of Mexico's greatest artists who began painting mostly self-portraits after she was severely injured in a bus accident. Kahlo later became politically active and married fellow communist artist...
‘Building’ Jerusalem: Tower of David exhibit features cultural icons
Museums are in crisis all over the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With the loss of visitor revenue, many smaller museums are being forced to close, and larger ones are postponing reopenings because...
Vera Lynn, the voice of resistance against the Nazis, dies
Vera Lynn, who sang the songs that touched the hearts and lifted the spirits of Britons from the bomb-blitzed streets of London and Coventry to the sands of North Africa and the jungles of...
Jewish music bigs Benny Friedman and Mordechai Shapiro belt it out for charity
More than 5,000 people tuned in to the virtual “Battle of the Singers,” featuring well-known Jewish entertainers Benny Friedman and Mordechai Shapiro, and sponsored by the Orthodox Union’s Yachad leading organization for individuals with...