Visual Arts
by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | May 1, 2020 | Arts & Life, Coronavirus Resources, Film & TV, Food & Entertainment During The Pandemic, Fun, The Arts, Visual Arts
Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu, move over. For the first time in its 32-year history, the William and Irene Weinberg Family Baltimore Jewish Film Festival will be presented entirely virtually, due to the coronavirus pandemic. From May 16 through June 10, the festival... read more
by Staff Report | Apr 27, 2020 | Arts & Life, Fun, The Arts, Visual Arts
It’s now known as the Nancy S. Grasmick Building in honor of the former superintendent of the Maryland State Department of Education. But for generations, the edifice at the corner of West Baltimore and Liberty streets was known as the Baltimore Bargain House.... read more
by Ron Kampeas, JTA | Apr 14, 2020 | Arts & Life, Film & TV, Fun, Passover, Performing Arts, The Arts, Visual Arts
With its glittering in-gathering of celebrities, jokes that worked and attendees who could, well, actually sing, it was the Zoom seder you wished you had. The “Saturday Night Seder” that aired last Saturday night, Apr. 11, on YouTube on the fourth night of... read more
by Lior Zaltzman, JTA | Mar 30, 2020 | Art, Arts & Life, Film & TV, Food & Entertainment During The Pandemic, The Arts, Visual Arts
Back in 2012, when Deborah Feldman’s memoir “Unorthodox” came out, several people recommended I read this bestselling tale about a young woman leaving the Satmar Chasidic sect. I didn’t follow their advice, but I absolutely should have. It’s an important and... read more
by Simone Ellin, Associate Editor | Mar 27, 2020 | Art, Arts & Life, Food & Entertainment During The Pandemic, Performing Arts, The Arts, Visual Arts
“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” –Twyla Tharp, dancer, choreographer and author Since Gov. Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency in Maryland on Mar. 5, theatrical productions, concerts, book talks and exhibition openings around the... read more
by Curt Schleier, JTA | Mar 16, 2020 | Art, Arts & Life, The Arts, Visual Arts
David Simon originally read Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America” around the time the novel was released in 2004. An alternate history, the book posits that Charles Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election, signed a non-aggression... read more
by Emily Burack | Feb 10, 2020 | Art, Arts & Life, Film & TV, Performing Arts, The Arts, Visual Arts
When Adam Sandler was shut out of this year’s Academy Award nominations for “Uncut Gems,” the Oscars lost out on the chance to have an acceptance speech as hilarious as the one Sandler delivered Saturday at the Independent Film Spirit Awards. But this year’s... read more
by Aliza Friedlander | Feb 4, 2020 | Art, Arts & Life, Film & TV, The Arts, Visual Arts
Pnina Pfeuffer is a social activist, writer, feminist, mother of two, Jerusalem resident and former political candidate who holds both a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts and a master’s degree in organizational behavior. She’s also a Haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, Jew on... read more
by Alan Feiler, Editor-in-Chief | Jan 30, 2020 | Art, Arts & Life, Fun, Museum, Music, Performing Arts, The Arts, Visual Arts
Bagels and banjos. Hebrew and harmonicas. Isaac Bashevis Singer and Pete Seeger. You could say that Jewish culture and the American folk music tradition are a natural fit. Do banjos and Yiddishkeit mix? (File photo) The staff at the Jewish Museum of Maryland realized... read more
by Gabe Friedman | Dec 10, 2019 | Art, Arts & Life, Film & TV, Visual Arts
As soon as I exited a recent screening of “Uncut Gems,” I needed to express my feelings about the sheer cinematic bliss I’d experienced for two hours nonstop. “Just got out of ‘Uncut Gems,’ the new Adam Sandler movie coming out,” I texted a friend.... read more
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