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Animated Art to Complete the Countdown to Shavuot

Friday night, June 10th marks the final day of the Omer, the 50 days Jews tick off from Passover (the Exodus) to Shavuot (receiving the Torah). Back in the day, the counting was done with measures of barley (“omer” means “sheaf of barley”) Today, we count each day with a blessing. It’s a small […]

By Tamar Fox

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A Tel Aviv Artist Explores Her Tehran Roots

Tel Aviv-based visual artist Elham Rokni was born in Tehran and has lived in Israel since she was 9. Her work reflects on displacement and memory, and in media ranging from drawings to video, she examines a homeland lately known to her mainly through TV news and the Internet. https://vimeo.com/160512126 In the project “Yousef-Abad,” […]

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Eva Hesse, The Extraordinary Sculptor Who Died at 34

Eva Hesse, The Extraordinary Sculptor Who Escaped the Nazis then Died at 34

Minimalist art is characterized by a kind of machine-made reductiveness, a movement transgressive in its simplicity. So what would post-minimalism look like? Just check out the breathtaking work of the late Eva Hesse. Born to observant Jews in Hamburg, on this day, January 11, in 1936, Hesse escaped Nazi Europe via kindertransport, eventually settling with […]

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