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...Desert conditions must have helped preserve the colors of the frescoes adorning the synagogue's walls from ceiling to floor. They depict scenes from the Old Testament in vivid imagery, which is all the more incredible considering that such portrayal of the human figure is expressly forbidden in the Talmud. You can even see the hand of God pulling people up to Heaven by the hair (painful, but probably better than going to Hell). The same, slightly ominous hand, can be seen parting the Red Sea as Moses leads the Israelites through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damascene Confusion | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...Atlantide collection will travel from Paris to Hong Kong in the fall and land in New York City just in time for the holidays. Based on the mythic stories of Neptune and his queen, Cleita, the Van Cleef creative team explored the deep sea, using smatterings of pearls to depict ocean spray and rare aqua colored tourmaline's to evoke the ocean depths. One stunning pendant is composed of onyx and set with diamonds and white gold coral-shaped branches. Other pieces include sea nymph pins encrusted with sapphires and a Poseiden-like creature made of yellow gold and fashioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jewels of Paris | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...moss. Painstakingly drawn on gold silk, Pureness could be a perfect example of nihonga, traditional Japanese ink painting-save for the coroner's cut that unseams Matsui's subject from chest to chaps, leaving heart, lungs and organs exposed to the viewer. This use of classical Japanese artisanship to depict horror-show material is quintessentially Matsui. "I'm not interested in drawing with free form, just from emotion," she says. "What's interesting is using an established technique, but drawing from your private feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outside the Lines | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...Gaza at the Crossroads of Civilizations" at Geneva's Musée d'Art et d'Histoire is the first ever public show of Gazan antiquities. Its 530 artifacts, drawn chiefly from the vaults of private Palestinian collector Jawdat Khoudary and the Palestinian National Authority, depict a Gaza that was once at the nexus of trade routes and a meeting point of cultures. Today, at a time when rival Palestinian factions are gunning each other down, we learn that Gaza's early inhabitants were prosperous, practiced multiculturalists. On show are objects from several empires unearthed during the past two centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Glitter of Old Gaza | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...think about things in new ways,” she says. Michael P. Silverstri ’10 is exhibiting a collection of his watercolor paintings in Weld Hall. Silvestri’s subjects include his family, the Boston skyline and a crucifixion. “The paintings depict things I’ve encountered, people that I’ve seen, places I’ve been and stuff that I hold important to me,” Silverstri says. Art Walk will be Silvestri’s first exhibition of his work, representing one of the reasons Miracchi...

Author: By Jessica X.Y. Rothenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taking Steps to Change the Art Walk | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

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