Jerusalem Post–Aug. 27 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.
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Entries Tagged as ‘Art’
September 3, 2009
Working in the territory:In the studio with Sharon Poliakine
April 23, 2009
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 [...]
February 20, 2009
The Aesthetics of Violence Examined
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 [...]
January 2, 2009
Perpetual Perspective: In the Studio with Gilad Efrat
(Photo by Michal Lando)
The Jerusalem Post–January 2, 2009
Wearing jeans and a black T-shirt, painter Gilad Efrat begins to nervously tidy up as I step into his studio on Shvil Hamifal in South Tel Aviv, camera in hand. These days the studio serves as both his work space and his home, which he shares with his [...]
November 4, 2008
The Art of War
Forward–October 2, 2008
Two years ago in the midst of the Second Lebanon War, the popular French philosopher Bernard Henri Levy, was sent to Israel by the New York Times Magazine to “ponder, discuss and travel” as the title of his piece suggested. The result, an essay defending the country’s military confrontation against vociferous critics, was [...]
April 8, 2008
Reexamining Warhol’s Jews
The Jerusalem Post–April 8, 2008
For an artist by no means unfamiliar with controversy, the 1980 exhibit of Andy Warhol’s “Jewish Geniuses,” at the Jewish Museum in New York, a series of 10 portraits of famous Jews, proved particularly fraught.
“The way it exploits its Jewish subjects without showing the slightest grasp of their significance is offensive [...]
