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On January 23, 1976, David Bowie released his tenth studio album, the iconic Station to Station, via RCA Records. To mark its anniversary, we're revisiting P...

Too elegant, too tactical, too perfect: such were the characteristics of Anish Kapoor’s hyperreflective sculptures of the unforgettable and exuberant exhibition held at Lisson Gallery in New York some four years ago. With immaculately polished surfaces, those optical devices, whether immense or human in scale, appeared as matchless catalysts for arresting phenomenological inquiries into the parameters of vision and the paradoxes of visual representation.

“During World War II, it became nonsensical to get involved in painting men playing violins, or cellos, or flowers,”1 reflected Barnett Newman, as he rationalised the value of the (then) unappreciated abstract movement. Today, as we witness the escalation of regional conflicts in Africa, Eastern Europe or the Middle East, Newmans words resonate with renewed significance. In an era teetering on the brink of global conflict, abstract art emerges as a more fitting artistic expression refl...

The Jewish Kabbalah tradition offers a way of understanding God in the world—one that has profoundly influenced...

A new poem from Todd Greenberg.

From the blog of Pinny Arnon at The Times of Israel

From the blog of KJ Hannah Greenberg at The Times of Israel

From the blog of Shlomo Ezagui at The Times of Israel

From the blog of Michael Laitman at The Times of Israel

Pie Shop hosts local music fest, Lido Pimienta, Overcoats at Kennedy Center, plus Lime Cordiale, Skating Polly, and an Ishirō Honda classic.