Artist airs the taboo topic of infertility
Heather Solomon speaks with artist Heidi Barkun, who put her struggles with infertility into her new art installation titled LET’S GET YOU PREGNANT!.
Poets pair with artists in collaborative show
Heather Solomon speaks with the craftswomen behind the new art show, Poetic Notions, which is showing from Feb. 13-17 at the E.K. Voland Gallery in Montreal.
The world according to Chagall
Marc Chagall’s La Tour Eiffel is one of the most intellectually profound paintings of the 20th century, even if the National Gallery can’t see it.
Volunteers make ‘angel quilts’ for people undergoing cancer treatment
The Toronto Jewish Quilting Project is made up of dedicated women who come together weekly to create amazing quilts, to be gifted to people who are undergoing cancer treatment.
Inside the world of artistic photographs
From Nov. 28-April 28, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is showing Of Individuals and Places: Photographs from the Lazare Collection, an exhibition of 95 of Jack Lazare’s photos, which have been curated by Diane Charbonneau.
Duesseldorf auction house returns Max Stern painting to his heirs
At Duesseldorf’s historic Malkasten artists’ association on Nov. 19, the Nazi-looted painting, Storm at Sea, by the Dutch master Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, was returned to the heirs of art dealer Max Stern.
Making art together improves the lives of seniors: study
An innovative art program for seniors at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is having a measurable, positive impact on participants’ well-being, quality of life and, in some cases, health, according to researchers with the Jewish General Hospital.
The 100-year-old woman who’s still making art
Great-grandmother, artist and Holocaust survivor Anna Lowenthal celebrated her 100th birthday last April and insisted on one thing – that no fuss be made about it.
Retrospective showcases the art of Claire Weissman Wilks
The Toronto visual artist exhibited her work in major galleries in Europe, but her one-woman shows did not garner the same level of recognition in Canada.
Avi Katz: Why was I singled out? And who’s next?
Across Israel and the Jewish Diaspora, the nation-state law has garnered significant disapproval. Indeed, the editor of the Jerusalem Post himself wrote an article criticizing it. So it’s not as though I was alone in taking on what many see as a divisive and dangerous move by this government. Which leads to two final questions: why was I singled out? And who’s next?
