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When a Child Sings
When a Child Sings
As Israeli musicians return to the music of their childhood, we ask ourselves – what is there to be found in the songs we sang in kindergarten?
By: Gilad Halpern
The Experience of Color
The Experience of Color
Bringing back influences from Paris, Pinchas Litvinovsky found great success on Israel’s art scene
By: David E. Rozenson
Explaining America to Israelis
Explaining America to Israelis
The New Season of the Hebrew-language podcast Mifleget Hamachshavot is dedicated to the ideas behind American politics
By: Alex Stein
Back Again
Back Again
Pogroms in Europe prompted Pinchas Litvinovsky to return to Eretz Israel and join the nascent art scene there
By: David E. Rozenson
Ten Facts for Sukkot
Ten Facts for Sukkot
What is Shemini Atzeret? What is willow beating? What do we do on Hoshana Rabbah? Why do we sit in the sukkah in the first place? Dudu Cohen presents ten things you wanted to know about Sukkot but had no one to ask
By: Dudu Cohen
Litvinovsky the Bohemian
Litvinovsky the Bohemian
Upon returning from Jerusalem, Litvinovsky found himself amidst the immense cultural outburst of the Silver Age in Russian art and literature
By: David E. Rozenson
Portrait in one click: What happens when AI steps into the shoes of an artist?
Portrait in one click: What happens when AI steps into the shoes of an artist?
At the exhibition “You Must Choose Life – That is Art: Pinchas Litvinovsky”, a unique AI stand creates portraits of the visitors in Litvinovsky’s style. The meeting between technology and art raises questions about the limits of creation, originality and replication. Noa Sorek met with ChatGPT for a fascinating conversation about the place of the artist in the age of AI
By: Noa Sorek
Searching for Art
Searching for Art
After a short and disappointing stint at Bezalel in Jerusalem, Litvinovsky managed to enter the Imperial Academy of Arts in Petrograd
By: David E. Rozenson
Becoming an Artist
Becoming an Artist
From a cheder in a small town in the south of Ukraine to an art school scholarship in the vibrant and cosmopolitan city of Odessa
By: David E. Rozenson
The Beauty and the Poetry of 22 Letters
The Beauty and the Poetry of 22 Letters
The story of two extraordinary illustrated Aleph-bet books: one was published only after the death of the illustrator, the other never saw the light of day
By: Hadar Ben Yehuda
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