The Forward-Feb. 17, 2009
Haifa — Following the collapse of the Twin Towers in 2001, German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was caught musing that the event was “the greatest work of art that is possible,” a statement that provoked widespread outrage and led to the cancellation of several concerts of his work. Though New York Times music [...]
Entries from February 2009
February 20, 2009
The Aesthetics of Violence Examined
February 10, 2009
Secret Lives
Nextbook–February 10, 2009
Rarely do secular Jews picture the ultra-Orthodox building a snowman, sprawled piss-drunk across a table, or half-naked and covered in mud at the Dead Sea. But Israeli photographer Menahem Kahana’s exhibition of provocative, often humorous photographs—on display at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv through June 30—reveals a side of this community [...]
