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Newer posts →. February 20, 2009 · 7:53 pm. The Aesthetics of Violence Examined. The Forward-Feb. 17, 2009. In the wake of 9/11 and of Stockhausen’s comments and Damien Hirst’s echoes of those comments, thinkers such as Slavoj Zizek (in his book Welcome to the Desert of the Real ) and Paul Virilio (in his book Art and Fear ) have tried to unravel our fascination with the violent spectacle arguing that violence is sometimes also aesthetic, as uncomfortable as that may be. Continue reading →. As I sit in t...
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Clothes like days | Michal Lando
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Working in the territory:In the studio with Sharon Poliakine →. March 19, 2010 · 5:00 pm. 8220;It’s a kind of a dance,” says Michal Bassad. The designer is perched on a table next to her sewing machine. Her studio, which also serves as her store, has only a few racks of clothing, reflective of her artistic approach to fashion. While each piece is distinct, they are all reflective of Bassad’s unique vision – part punk rock, part recycled, entirely fanciful. Though her style has evolved over the nine years...
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Working in the territory:In the studio with Sharon Poliakine | Michal Lando
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April 3, 2010 · 1:09 pm. Working in the territory:In the studio with Sharon Poliakine. Sharon Poliakine’s studio in Rishpon, not far from her home in Ra’anana, has all the markings of a still-life painting – tubes of paint, water bottles, knives, gloves and plastic sandwich bags stained with a black residue of paint form a series of scattered mounds in the wide open space. Though the space is rugged and has been flooded by rain, her current studio is the workspace she “loves most.”. POLIAKINE, 44, sees t...
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Inherited Ambivalence | Michal Lando
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The sin of unrequited love. A Different Light →. June 15, 2009 · 11:11 am. All of the characters in the connected stories by Danit Brown. Ask for a Convertible. Pantheon Books, $22.95) struggle to find an identity and a home for themselves. Chief among them is Osnat Greenberg, a hybrid Israeli-American whose dry and often hilarious voice guides us through most of this debut collection. These stories’ strength and originality lie in Brown’s ability to capture the specifics and the nuances of the Isr...
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A View from the Bridge | Michal Lando
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The Aesthetics of Violence Examined. Art that Hints at Big Questions →. March 6, 2009 · 4:51 pm. A View from the Bridge. Haaretz–March 6, 2009. By Peter Stephan Jungk (translated from the German by David Dollenmayer). Handsel Books, 219 pages, $14.95 (paperback). Either way, it doesn’t really matter. For Jungk, fantasy and reality are often one and the same, and he is skilled at capturing the absurdity of the situation while making it entirely believable as well. The body’s largeness may be anoth...All o...
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A Different Light | Michal Lando
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Clothes like days →. February 3, 2010 · 10:41 am. Le Chante des Mariees ( The Wedding Song ), directed by Karin Albou. Two young girls dressed up as brides are playing outside their home in Tunis in the years leading up to the German occupation. One sings to the other a haunting song: The bride has blackened her eyelashes, made up her lips hennaed her hair, she has put on her most beautiful dress and all her bracelets but she is still missing something. But in Albou’s movie, the war is largely a means of...
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The sin of unrequited love | Michal Lando
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Art that Hints at Big Questions. Inherited Ambivalence →. June 9, 2009 · 2:27 pm. The sin of unrequited love. Haaretz–June 5, 2009. The Confessions of Noa Weber, by Gail Hareven (translated from the Hebrew, “She’ahava Nafshi,” by Dalya Bilu). Melville House Publishing, 331 pages, $16.95 (paperback). 8216;Beckoned with two fingers’. 8216;Deaf to God’. Filed under Book Reviews. Art that Hints at Big Questions. Inherited Ambivalence →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Middot; Michal Land...
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Art that Hints at Big Questions | Michal Lando
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A View from the Bridge. The sin of unrequited love →. April 23, 2009 · 8:29 am. Art that Hints at Big Questions. The Forward–April 23, 2009. Israeli sculptor Micha Ullman likes to refer to his art as offerings works that people can choose to accept or not. He doesn’t believe in forcing anything on anyone, and especially not art. It’s an attitude to life, he said in an interview in his Ramat Hasharon studio, which is neatly packed with models of his sculptures, some dating back decades. I am not a star, o...
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