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Jun 10, 2026, 4:07 AM

Tony winners should stay shtum on politics!

It’s awards week, so it must be political soapbox time. Again. At the Tony Awards on Sunday, America’s joyous celebration of all things theatre, the Best Supporting Actor winner, The Lost Boys star Ali Louis Bourzgui, decided to devote...

Gabrielle Bartelse

Jun 4, 2026, 10:42 PM

The Culture of Boycott

When art betrays its own freedom

Yardaena Osband

May 29, 2026, 1:03 PM

‘Chorus of the Hebrew slaves’ from a gilded opera box

Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy. (David Glazer)

After so much destruction, art is restoring my faith in humanity's capacity for beauty, from Verdi's music to the menorah's hammered gold (Beha'alotcha)

May 26, 2026, 9:03 PM

The Breath Between: Consciousness, Evanescence, and the Art of Re-Entry

The evanescent self

By Joe Nalven + Claude + Gemini This essay revisits my earlier essay on consciousness. The process we often use to describe the experience (from our own first-person awareness to investigators who seek to measure it) requires that evanescent memory...

May 19, 2026, 3:28 PM

Art Collecting As Humanistic Duty

THE ART OF SURVIVING & SURVIVING OF ART Part II. Art Collecting as a Humanistic Duty Part I can be read here. In mid-March 2026, at the annual TEFAF Maastricht art fair of the best fine art on the market, a very...

May 17, 2026, 4:51 PM

The Art of Surviving and Surviving of Art

The Monuments Men recovering Vermeer's The Art of Painting and Drost's Man with Plumed Red Beret. May 1945. The Leiden Collection. With kind permission.

History Thriller about Art, Good and Evil In mid-March 2026, at the annual TEFAF Maastricht art fair of the best fine art on the market, a very meaningful acquisition of the great work by the fantastically talented pupil of Rembrandt...

May 5, 2026, 4:32 AM

An Evening honoring Elie Tahari, Tovah Feldshuh & Ambassador Ofir Akunis

Hatzalah YS, Israel’s Rescuers, will be Hosting a High-Profile Gala at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on May 11th, 2026 Honoring Elie Tahari and Tovah Feldshuh. Elie Tahari is a renowned Israeli-American fashion designer and entrepreneur who built a...

May 3, 2026, 9:28 PM

The Price by Arthur Miller – A Review

Henry Goodman (c) Mark Senior

Written by Arthur Miller and directed by Jonathan Munby Arthur Miller’s The Price, now playing at the Marylebone Theatre is a timely reminder of the writer’s ability to dissect both the human condition and the American Dream. As Victor Franz,...

May 1, 2026, 6:43 PM

October 7 Is Still Very Much With Us During the Service Year

A Place To Live, my photo

This week began with a meeting between our service year group and the social workers from the welfare department at the Merhavim Regional Council. For me, it was an interesting but also sad meeting. There are quite a few...

Bonnie K. Goodman

May 1, 2026, 4:51 AM

At Maya Gallery, a Benefit Sale Becomes a Map of Israeli Contemporary Art

Official image for Maya Gallery’s sixth annual online benefit sale. Courtesy of Maya Gallery Tel Aviv.

The nonprofit gallery’s sixth annual online auction brings together emerging voices, mid-career artists, and major Israeli art-world figures in a broad, uneven, and revealing portrait of Israeli art now. By Bonnie K. Goodman, BA, MLIS Maya Gallery’s sixth annual online benefit...

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