Category Rachel Kanter

On the Consequences of Hate Speech
Art exhibition at the Manny Cantor Center, 197 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002. OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2018 | 6-8PM | Presented by the Manny Cantor Center and the Jewish Art Salon. Photos of the opening reception here. Online catalog, designed by Nazanin Hedayat Munroe. Exhibit on view Mon-Sat 10-6, until January 18, 2019. Words […]

Rachel Kanter at the Jewish Museum Hohenems
Rachel Kanter‘s piece, “God’s Aspect” will be included in the exhibition The Female Side of God. This exhibition of the Jewish Museum Hohenems is in collaboration with the Jewish Museum Frankfurt and the Museum of the Bible, Washington DC. “The Jewish Museum Hohenems poses a challenging question to the monotheistic religions: Is it possible to view […]

Symposium on Femininity and Masculinity in Jewish Art
The Mishkan Museum in Ein Harod, Israel, hosts a closing event on January 29th at the exhibit New York / New Work, which features works by Jewish Art Salon members. This symposium, in memory of Ahuva Ben Aharon, is done in conjunction with Midreshet Ein Hanatziv, Niggun Nashim and Oranim College. The New York / New Work exhibition […]

SILENT WITNESSES: Synagogues Transformed, Rebuilt or Abandoned
Artists Respond to History Holocaust Memorial Center 28123 Orchard Lake Road Farmington Hills, MI 48334 (Metro Detroit) Hours: Sun – Thurs 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM, Fri 9:30 AM – 3:00 PM Tel: (248) 553-2400. “Silent Witnesses” is a collaboration of the Cultural Heritage Artists Project, the Jewish Art Salon, JWalks, and the Holocaust Memorial […]

THE DURA EUROPOS PROJECT: An ancient site revisited through 21st century eyes
Artists examine what the ancient Dura Europos artists did with subject, style, history, idea, underlying texts and their myriad commentaries, and they provide their own 21st century interpretations. This includes depictions of the Jewish texts, episodes from history, ideas of the sacred, evoking a historical style, Jewish and pagan identities, and sacred space. This […]
SEDUCED BY THE SACRED: Forging a Jewish Art
This exhibit, which is curated by Richard McBee and Joel Silverstein, features artists who have been moved by the idea of the sacred in their work, including concepts of divinity and or the sublime. The exhibit takes place from Oct. 3 to Nov. 22, 2010, at the Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford, Conn., and the […]

TZELEM
This project was produced in conjunction with LABA, the National Laboratory for New Jewish Culture at the 14 Street Y. April 26 – May 17, 2009, Stanton Street Synagogue The pioneering importance of this exhibit, Tzelem-Likeness and Presence in Jewish Art, was that it corralled, for the first time, a diverse, balanced and complete range of […]