Painting and sculpture Archives – J-Wire https://www.jwire.com.au/category/the-arts/the-arts-painting/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:13:25 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 6446428 Major sponsor PwC pulls out of Biennale after DJ’s antisemitic chants https://www.jwire.com.au/pwc-pulls-out/ https://www.jwire.com.au/pwc-pulls-out/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:13:25 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=178805 PwC has withdrawn its sponsorship and association from the Biennale of Sydney following controversy over antisemitic and antizionist remarks during the festival’s opening night on Friday. The decision stems from a performance by US electronic music producer DJ Haram (real name Zubeyda Muzeyyen) at White Bay Power Station. Within hours of the event’s start, she […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/pwc-pulls-out/feed/ 1 178805 Portrait of love and loss unveiled at Chabad gathering in Bondi https://www.jwire.com.au/portrait-of-love-and-loss-unveiled-at-chabad-gathering-in-bondi/ https://www.jwire.com.au/portrait-of-love-and-loss-unveiled-at-chabad-gathering-in-bondi/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:29:05 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=177861 When Melbourne portrait artist Miriam Lange received the call from Rabbi Mendy Groner of Chabad Glen Eira, she did not hesitate. He was calling on behalf of Melbourne’s Chabad rabbis with a request that was both simple and immense: to paint Rabbi Yehoram Ulman together with his late son-in-law Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who was murdered […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/portrait-of-love-and-loss-unveiled-at-chabad-gathering-in-bondi/feed/ 1 177861 Women, Pogroms, Love https://www.jwire.com.au/women-pogroms-love/ https://www.jwire.com.au/women-pogroms-love/#respond Mon, 27 Oct 2025 03:51:18 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=173617 A Sydney exhibition by award-winning artist Wendy Lessick Bookatz. Leonard Cohen’s words: “I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere” – speak to the heart of this exhibition. Lessick’s exhibition is a journey through violence, memory and love. The rack […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/women-pogroms-love/feed/ 0 173617 Euphoria: an installation at the Melbourne Town Hall https://www.jwire.com.au/euphoria-an-installation-at-the-melbourne-town-hall/ https://www.jwire.com.au/euphoria-an-installation-at-the-melbourne-town-hall/#respond Mon, 05 Jun 2023 23:01:41 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=147936 As Gordon Gekko, in the 1987 Oliver Stone-directed hit film Wall Street, Michael Douglas said “greed, for lack of a better word, is good”…writes Alex First. I venture to suggest that Berlin-based artist Julian Rosefeldt, who has created the impressive multiscreen installation Euphoria, would vehemently disagree. Using the musings of more than 100 economists, business […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/euphoria-an-installation-at-the-melbourne-town-hall/feed/ 0 147936 Bollard City https://www.jwire.com.au/bollard-city/ https://www.jwire.com.au/bollard-city/#respond Thu, 01 Mar 2018 20:01:19 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=82532 Bollard City, a solo exhibition by Georgian-born artist, Nina Sanadze, opens on Saturday 17 March at Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West, and explores how bollards have become the new icons of our time. 

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/bollard-city/feed/ 0 82532 Students selected to exhibit at the Art Gallery of Western Australia https://www.jwire.com.au/students-selected-to-exhibit-at-the-art-gallery-of-western-australia/ https://www.jwire.com.au/students-selected-to-exhibit-at-the-art-gallery-of-western-australia/#respond Tue, 06 Feb 2018 02:53:11 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=81598 Perth's Carmel School  students Tal Levin and Riley Twyman have been selected to exhibit in the coveted Year 12 Perspectives exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/students-selected-to-exhibit-at-the-art-gallery-of-western-australia/feed/ 0 81598 Top Israeli artist to exhibit at the Perth Festival https://www.jwire.com.au/top-israeli-artist-to-exhibit-at-the-perth-festival/ https://www.jwire.com.au/top-israeli-artist-to-exhibit-at-the-perth-festival/#respond Tue, 06 Feb 2018 02:21:13 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=81592 The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery will present the exhibition Human Nature by prominent Yemen-born, London-based artist Zadok Ben-David as part of the 2018 Perth Festival.

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/top-israeli-artist-to-exhibit-at-the-perth-festival/feed/ 0 81592 Dunera Boy still working in steel…at 101 https://www.jwire.com.au/dunera-boy-still-working-in-steel-at-101/ https://www.jwire.com.au/dunera-boy-still-working-in-steel-at-101/#respond Mon, 08 May 2017 04:57:36 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=73024 Former Dunera Boy, abstract sculptor Erwin Fabian, continues to work his magic with steel. Seven of his large metal sculptures have been unveiled at an exhibition in Sydney.

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/dunera-boy-still-working-in-steel-at-101/feed/ 0 73024 Marvellous Melbourne https://www.jwire.com.au/marvellous-melbourne/ https://www.jwire.com.au/marvellous-melbourne/#respond Sun, 05 Mar 2017 02:02:29 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=70545 For the sixth year in a row, Melbourne has topped The Economist’s list of the world’s most livable cities. In MARVELLOUS MELBOURNE, its Art and Soul Exhibition, twenty-seven prominent Victorian artists capture the City’s uniqueness in a delightful array of paintings, drawings, prints & photographic artworks.

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/marvellous-melbourne/feed/ 0 70545 New York Jewish artist at the NGV https://www.jwire.com.au/new-york-jewish-artist-at-the-ngv/ https://www.jwire.com.au/new-york-jewish-artist-at-the-ngv/#respond Fri, 10 Feb 2017 02:12:10 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=69726 The NGV has launched pioneering Jewish American conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner’s latest installation OUT OF SIGHT, a participatory hopscotch-inspired artwork that aims to inspire and engage through positive visualisation.

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