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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September 3, 2009
Working in the territory:In the studio with Sharon Poliakine
July 19, 2009
Clothes like days
Jerusalem Post–July 17, 2009
“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.
Though the space is minimal, its energetic, loud music streams [...]
January 30, 2009
Drifting Into the Harbor: In the Studio with Roi Kuper
January 30, 2009–The Jerusalem Post
As I sit in the studio of photographer Roi Kuper, he reads aloud from “It’s the Dream,” a poem by Norwegian poet Olav H. Hauge: “It’s the dream we carry/that something wondrous will happen… that one morning we’ll quietly drift/into a harbor we didn’t know was there.”
“His poem says [...]
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 [...]
September 4, 2008
Kill Brill
The Jerusalem Post–September 4, 2008
“Man In the Dark”
Paul Auster
Henry Holt
192 pages; $23
It is not hard to imagine why an author these days would want to invent a world where history plays out differently. No shortage of writers have recently found themselves tempted by this conceit (Philip Roth and Michael Chabon to name just a [...]
July 3, 2008
Assimilating Questions
The Jerusalem Post–July 3, 2008
“All the Sad Young Literary Men”
By Keith Gessen
Viking
256 pages; $24.95
It is 2000, the votes for the president of the United States have been counted, and discounted, sending half the nation into a period of despair. Meanwhile across the Atlantic a second Palestinian uprising is shaking the already uncertain ground of the [...]
July 3, 2008
The First Haredi Pop Star
The Jerusalem Post–July 3, 2008
There is more than one way to serve God, the popular but controversial haredi singer Lipa Schmeltzer aims to tell his audience on his new album, A Poshiter Yid, or “a simple Jew.” One of those ways is music.
Given that this is his first album to appear since a group of [...]
May 22, 2008
Israel Mission Impossible
The Jerusalem Post–May 22, 2008
Shut Up, I’m Talking: And Other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned in the Israeli Government
By Gregory Levey
Free Press
288 pages; $24
Just minutes before an important vote at the United Nations on a resolution he hasn’t the slightest clue about, representing a country of which he isn’t a citizen, 25-year-old Gregory Levey begins to [...]
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 [...]
March 19, 2008
Lost in Adaptation
The Jerusalem Post–March 19, 2008
A few years ago as Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko prepared to read a few English translations of his own verse in a crowded hall on an American university campus, he reminded listeners of the fragile task of rendering poetry from one language to another. He compared the finished product to a [...]
