... transcended the status of artistic subjects; they have become my friends. I have been privileged to share their lives and to become part of their extended community. I have spent countless hours in their homes and studios and have regularly attended their exhibitions. My scholarly work about them has been...

...Paul Von Blum Another young artist, Moses Ball, focused on the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in his contributions to the exhibition. Looters Will Be Shot starkly reveals the merciless response of the New Orleans Police Department, the National Guard, and other armed “defenders...

... by Michael Massenburg. / Michael Massenburg (michaelmassenburg.com) An ongoing exhibition at the Watts Towers Arts Center dramatically highlights these issues, presenting one of the most compelling shows of socially conscious art in California in many years. Curated by Arts Center Director Rosie Lee...

... began a program that introduced therapeutic massage to a drop-in center for women who are survival sex workers in the Downtown Eastside. Eventually, I began to teach photography at the same drop-in center. Together, the women whom I met at the center and I organized a photo exhibit that was, simply...

..., however, not only de­ works that underscore the complexity of vases.” Perhaps Chagall’s Jewishness is livered dream-like or visionary imagery, Chagall’s Jewishness. “It seems that Cha­ prominent in most considerations of him but seemed to emerge from the inside out, gall exhibited a dual...

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...MICHAEL LERNER However, most of the people we invite to write in Tikkun do not share this perspective, and we use our pages not primarily to exhibit our view but to engage a wide variety of perspectives in our attempt to understand how to bring about tikkun (healing and transformation...

... sored by the gatekeepers who decide w hat gets exhibited. Called Christ Mother, it is a tow­ ering, gritty and majestic painting of a naked woman bound in a crucifixion pose. Another new woman-centered vision comes from Atlanta painter Becki Jayne Harrelson. She gives Mary a lesbian partner in her...

.... And accordingly, it built a community of resistance and opposition that stems originally from sentiments and responses that could be identified more narrowly as cultural identity politics. Both exhibitions were curated with rigorous standards and included artists of extraordinarily high professional standing...

... most sacred, intimate, truthful, and loving natures. None of us can avoid harming each other and falling short of what we know we could be. None of us. We often exhibit two responses to this truth that create deep tension, particularly in the world of identity politics. Fortunately...

... organisms, exhibit self-organization; all of life is basically defined by this self-generating, self-maintaining criterion.” This is more consistent with Indra’s Net, a Buddhist metaphor that compares the cosmos to a multidimensional web with a jewel at each knot. Each of these jewels reflects all...

... this one, in a heaven, paradise, pure land, or some ideally conceived realm of the afterlife. These religions thus exhibit world-denying characteristics and tend to deemphasize the value of efforts to make this world a better one, unless this endeavor is tied up with attaining a reward in the afterlife...

... York Times to advocate Berkeley, CA 94704 Award Winning for- “An Ethical Way to End the TRAVELLING FINE ART EXHIBIT...

... was not informed of this artistic adventure until greeted by a bill for $586.00, which had, handwritten on it, “Christmas lights.” I didn’t see the exhibit until I was walking across the park, a little snow flying. I looked up only to realize that there was a two-story light exhibit on the front of the church...

... is instrumental: all is sacrificed to the giant engine — the entertainment industry machine that requires the performer to shock and arouse and sell, sell, sell. There are millions of dollars at stake. The message is: do it, or the marketplace will vomit you out. So exhibit A, we have Mayim Bialik. Exhibit B...

... and heels), saying, “Come upstairs and eat me.” The animal sexualized. Consider “Lisa,” a part of a pharmaceutical exhibit at the annual convention of “pork producers.” (The sow is—against her will—the real “pork producer.”) “Lisa,” a buxom cartoon pig with stockings, heels, garters, and lipstick...

... pieces in the span of twenty days. The images were put into an exhibition, but Faya soon realized the focus of the project “was about the experience with the people that were involved in the process.” PART ARTIST, part activist, part ritualist, and part therapist, Orly Faya’s work reminds us...

... relationship). People with many friends catch fewer colds; later on, elderly people with at least a few close relationships are less prone to develop dementia (our bodymind falters when deprived of social relationships). Towns with thriving community-based economics, including local food security, exhibit...

.... (It can be viewed in its entirety at www.jerusalemwearehere.com ). Jerusalem, We Are Here had its local premieres in Jerusalem in May, and in Ramallah and Bethlehem in July. It recently became a basis for a permanent exhibition at Zochrot, a Tel Aviv-based Israeli NGO working to promote...

... and get out and see them if you're able. We will ourselves exhibit Bergman’s portraits on our online art gallery from January 6. For the Tikkun Daily Art Gallery, go to www.tikkun.org/daily and click on “Art Gallery...