MICHAEL Strauss issues a challenge: Try picking up his pride and joy, a gold-and-silver Rothschild menorah. The visitor tries with one hand and fails but remains fascinated by the beautiful piece made ...
A bag of coffee beans would seem out of place at most art exhibits. But at "Ritual Objects: The Radical and The Practical in Art & Design," a bright red bag emblazoned with the black words "Eight ...
Artists create “Tzedek Boxes,” receptacles meant to hold a record of the ways people perform social justice throughout the year. (New York Jewish Week) — When Andrew Mandel dreamt up a new Jewish ...
A strange collection of objects found along a major pilgrimage route may have been used in "magical rituals" by sorcerers around 400 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has announced.
"Today, China's classical antiquity is often studied through recovered artifacts, but before this practice became widespread, scholars instead reconstructed the distant past through classical texts ...
List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface: To Lothar / Li Shuicheng -- Introduction: Ritual and Economy in East Asian Archaeology / Rowan Flad and Anke Hein -- Uncovering disguised social ...
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Earliest worship: Evidence of 35,000-year-old prehistoric rites found in northern Israel
In what they are calling “a global breakthrough,” researchers working at a prehistoric cave site in northern Israel have discovered evidence of one of the earliest instances of communal worship, a ...
The art world has never quite known what to do with artists that make pipes for smoking weed. Nor have working-class artists gotten the respect they deserve. And what comes to mind when you think ...
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