Visual Arts

Where Beauty And Death Collide

Dani Shetrit — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:04:00 +0000

Visual Arts

Eric Herschthal

Staff Writer

Nir Hod’s Warsaw Ghetto-inspired ‘Mother’ series plays provocatively with ideas of fashion and glamour.

Nir Hod lives glamorously. When you enter his art studio in the Meatpacking District, his French bulldog, Nella, greets you at the door. You walk up the stairs and out steps the artist himself — a strikingly handsome man with long brown hair and dark denim jeans.

“The artist should be a rock star,” he says. “For me, art is about ego, charisma.”

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Not Your Typical Beach Days

Dani Shetrit — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:36:42 +0000

Visual Arts

Eric Herschthal

Staff Writer

In her photographs of Orthodox women at the Tel Aviv shore, Michal Ronnen Safdie captures tenderness alongside the sunscreen.

A few years ago, the Israeli-American photographer Michal Ronnen Safdie was walking past a beach in Tel Aviv. She noticed a gate meant to keep visitors out was cracked open, and decided to walk through. What she saw stunned her: hundreds of Orthodox women, draped in colorful full-length dresses, bathing in the Mediterranean Sea.

The Y Pulls Together For Terezin

Dani Shetrit — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:53:00 +0000

Visual Arts

George Robinson

Special to the Jewish Week

Interdisciplinary project probing the camp’s unique culture represents new approach for premier arts institution.

When the 92nd Street Y launches its ambitious five-week-long project, “Will to Create, Will to Live: The Culture of Terezin” on Jan. 9, it will mark a significant change in the way one of the city’s most esteemed arts institutions does its work. For the first time in its history, the Y’s Tisch Center for the Arts is drawing on nearly all of the resources of 92Y's many departments to present an interdisciplinary series of programs that will include concerts, lectures, readings, classes, film screenings and dance performances.

92 Street Y Terezin

The Jewish Echoes In ‘The Fulbright Triptych’

Dani Shetrit — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:43:00 +0000

Visual Arts

Eric Herschthal

Staff Writer

Forty years after Simon Dinnerstein completed his monumental painting, the complex work is getting a fresh look.

Germany was not Simon Dinnerstein’s first choice for a Fulbright grant. But he didn’t have much of a choice. It was 1970, and the Brooklyn-based artist, then 27, was barely making a living. He first applied to work with a noted Spanish painter, only listing Germany, to study the art of engraving in the birthplace of Dürer, as a back up.

artist Fulbright grant Simon Dinnerstein

Kosher Indian

Dani Shetrit — Tue, 31 May 2011 21:05:00 +0000

Visual Arts

Eric Herschthal

Staff Writer

Siona Benjamin’s ‘visual midrash’ explores her identity as a Bene Israel descendant.

When Siona Benjamin was in art school in the 1980s, her professors told her to avoid narrative painting, and to keep her work abstract.

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