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exhibition
Whatever happened to thinking outside the box?
What does it mean to reduce the contemporary Jewish experience to a series of quotes, objects, stereotypes and to conclude an exhibit by placing a live human in a glass box to answer the questions of museum-goers (regardless of merit or cultural sensitivity)?
Rebuilding lives, one broken tile at a time
It was an elegant opening for a gallery exhibition. It was difficult to discern, on the surface, that the artists represented some of Los Angeles\’ most impoverished citizens, residents of Skid Row and South Los Angeles, who are actually using the broken bits of tile, stone and other rejected and recycled materials to rebuild their own lives.
Photo exhibit highlights the human cost of our bounty
In the stark black-and-white photo, two small children play in and around water, as children anywhere might do on a hot day. But there\’s something odd about the image: it isn\’t the shore or a recreational pool they\’re playing in, but a concrete irrigation canal.
Fantastical images inspire Jay and Spiegelman; JCafeLA does it again
At the threshold of commerce and art, there once existed a world where illusion, deception and transformation inhabited the fantasy realm of carnivals and circus sideshows. Noblemen would stand beside paupers to witness armless freaks and nefarious gamblers conjuring tricks that stirred the imagination.
MOCA’s latest exhibition reveals the early years of the ‘Feminist Revolution’
Regarding either Jewish or feminist art, we may ultimately be stuck with Justice Potter Stewart\’s comment about pornography, \”I know it when I see it.\” And perhaps that will be the most valuable contribution of this exhibition.