Wednesday, November 17, 2010

=== Israel Cultural Highlights in New York ===

Cultural Highlights - November 17 - December 1
In this Issue
Music - Pinchas Zukerman& Yefim Bronfman
Music - Michael Peer
Architecture - Maya Barkai
Visul Arts - Boaz Vaadia
Literature - Dolly City
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Pinchas Zukerman, violin, viola & Yefim Bronfman, piano
Saturday, Nov. 20, 8:00pm Carnegie Hall
MOZART Violin Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 454
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata in F Major, Op. 24, "Spring"
JOHANNES BRAHMS Viola Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 120, No. 2
Zukerman, who is winning over audiences in Ottawa as music director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, returns to the concert stage on both violin and viola. Bronfman was a Carnegie HallPerspectives artist in 2007-2008, and gave a mammoth recital program here last April. They now come together for audience-pleasing favorites.
Price - $8.00 - $108.00
For more information -
212-247-7800

Opera Night - Michael Peer
Sunday, Nov. 28, 7:30pm @Carnegie Hall
Michael Peer, Bass-Baritone Concert Debut
Produced by Lydia Mushe
Michael Peer-Bass-Baritone, Debut concert at Carnegie Hall with String Quartet Attacca
Mikhail Hallak- Piano, Ziv Shalev-Guitar. Guest Artist: Yasmin Levi-Ellentuck, Samantha Malk and Anna Noggle
Works by Shember, Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Puccini, Mozart and more.
Price: $55, $60 , $65
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Maya Barkai in "Playwood, Concrete, Paint"
Thursday, Nov. 18, 6:00pm @ The Center for Architecture
In the last two years, sidewalk sheds, of which there are more linear feet hanging above our heads than there are yellow cabs in New York City, have been getting a lot of attention. There's an entire section on the real estate website Curbed NY, devoted to exposing "Scaffolding Nightmares" around town but people are doing a lot more than just sitting around complaining. The Downtown Alliance for New York, ArtBridge, the Center for Architecture and most recently, the Department of Buildings (with support from the Rockefeller Foundation), are just a handful of the many organizations that are using construction sites and materials as platforms for Public-Art making. Art is playing an integral role in connecting the public to the space around them, even as it is in development and not yet complete. 
Panelists Include:
Joe Covello, Vice President and Co-Owner of United Hoisting and Scaffolding
Maya BarkaiPublic Artist
Rodney Durso, Founder, ArtBridge
Olympia Kazi, Executive Director of the Van Alen Institute
Tickets: $25.
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A Conversation with Boaz Vaadia
Monday, Nov. 22, 6:00pm @ The Ukrainian Institute of America
Boaz Vaadia is the internationally known sculptor whose timeless, evocative stone figures now inhabit museums, cultural sites, art galleries, and private collections. As major installations at prime buildings, parks, and homes around the world, they set a tone of peace and serenity. 
The Art of Leadership series is a forum for art collectors and art world professionals to identify and discuss the vital issues facing collectors - those who have existing collections, and those who plan to acquire more art during these challenging economic times. 
Please join us for the discussion which will be concluded by an open Q&A session, reception and refreshments to follow.
Due to limited seating, a reservation is required. Please RSVP at the Art of Leadership website:
http://artleadership.com/ArtL/RSVP.htm
 
Dolly City by Orly Castel Bloom
As part of Hebrew Literature Series
Now in bookstores
By Dalkey Archive Press.
Translated by Dalya Bilu.
Gruesome, unhinged, and hilarious, Dolly City is widely recognized as one of the most disconcerting-and brilliant-literary works ever to come out of Israel. "Dolly City-a city without a base, without a past, without an infrastructure. The most demented city in the world." In the midst of a futuristic-primitive metropolis, the accumulation of all our urban nightmares, Doctor Dolly (certified by the University of Katmandu) finds a newborn baby in a black plastic bag, and decides to become a mother. Overcome by unfamiliar maternal urges, Dolly dispenses with her private lab of rare diseases and turns all her surgical passion onto her son. Ceaselessly cutting and sewing, Dolly is the scalpel-wielding version of the all-too-familiar Jewish Mother archetype, forever operating upon her son with destructive, invasive love. In this grotesque satire of war and the defensive measures taken to survive it, Orly Castel-Bloom, one of Israel's most provocative and original writers, turns her own scalpel upon that most holy of institutions, the myth of motherhood-and its implications in the life of a nation.
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