BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published February 15, 2012
What Joan Lipkin has in mind for playgoers is a theatrical buffet, an opportunity to sample seven short plays, rather than settle in for a full-length entrée. Plus, "Briefs: A Festival of Short Lesbian and Gay Plays" is the first theater festival in...
There is more happening when a 3-year old takes up a marker than you might think. Two children sit down at a small table with a box of markers and some paper. Right away the negotiations begin with regard to who gets which color marker, which piece of...
JERUSALEM -- An art prize that will guarantee an Israeli artist living in Israel or abroad a cash prize and a solo exhibition in Jerusalem was established at the Bezalel Academy. Entries for the Ilana Elovic Bezalel Prize for the Arts are due by Feb....
MORE THAN 40 YEARS AGO I wrote a story about Lilo Waxman's charming five-room dollhouse, which had not long before arrived from its hiding place in Germany. These miniature dollhouse rooms were handed down starting with Lilo's great-grandmother in 1852,...
By Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published December 7, 2011
Robin Hirsch is an artist in her own right, having earned a bachelor's in fine arts in photography from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1985. When pressed about how she expresses her artistic passion these days, she points to the paintings and multimedia...
BY LILY SIWAK, JUNIOR, CLAYTON
• Published November 9, 2011
Every November, St. Louis is home to one of the most celebrated film festivals in America. The St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) is an annual event that was started in 1992 to present and promote films to advance filmmaking as an art form....
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published September 14, 2011
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis has launched its 45th season with a searing, crackling production of "Red," which focuses on a key period in the life and career of Mark Rothko, one of the most acclaimed and controversial Abstract Expressionist artists...
By Leanne Ortbals, Jewish Light Intern
• Published June 22, 2011
For twenty-something Sara Swaty Roger, attending Central Reform Congregation not only enriched her sense of Jewish community and spirituality but also helped her to find an outlet for artistic expression. CRC helped connect Roger with Cultural Leadership...
Close to $3,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to 24 winners of the 9th Annual Holocaust Museum and Learning Center's annual Art and Writing Contest at an awards ceremony at 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 24, at the Holocaust Museum Theater in the Jewish Federation...
By Renee Stovsky, Special to the Light
• Published September 29, 2010
Do artists defy age? Think of some of the greatest artists of the 20th Century and you might be tempted to believe so: -Pablo Picasso, who died at 91, produced a torrent of paintings and hundreds of copperplate etchings in his last years, defining neo-expressionism...
