Four Cubits: Hybrid Jerusalem Biennale Explores Personal Space With Global Art
This year's Biennale showcases more than 300 artists from around the world with Jerusalem-based exhibitions and online events.
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This year's Biennale showcases more than 300 artists from around the world with Jerusalem-based exhibitions and online events.
Ancient two-meter measurement is theme of this year's Jewish art exhibition, which explores personal spaces and isolation; event runs through December 30
Four Cubits explores the way art functions in the private space; in-person and online
But first, I want to put these prizes in context, beginning with a word about shabbat, shmita’s temporal Jewish sibling. The world needs shabbat right now. We need boundaries. We need rest. We need time when we switch off electronics. We need at least one day that we don’t buy stuff. We need at least one day that we spend with family and friends. After a boundary-less year of covid, our need for some kind of structured shabbat has never been greater. And so, then, to shmita. The word means something like “letting go.” It’s part of the Torah. You could argue that it’s a somewhat o...