Chaki: Imagined Landscapes

Historian of Jewish life in medieval Egypt wins MacArthur ‘genius award’: http://dlvr.it/CJHfz3

BEIGEL BAKE - DAMORIE

If you ever spot a line outside of an eating establishment while walking down Brick Lane, you are most likely approaching a piece of history in the area called Beigel Bake. Without the line of people standing outside of it or the crowd within, it would be easy to miss this beloved bakery due to its simple banner and interior design, but what Beigel Bake lacks in these areas, it makes up for it with its tasty, freshly baked bagels, or in this case beigels. Maybe the restaurant’s simple design has to do with the fact that it is one of London’s oldest bagel shops, which blends in with the air of nostalgia that fits many of the shops in Brick Lane. Whatever it is, it’s obvious that Beigel Bake is enormously popular in this area. The bakery opened in the neighborhood in the 1970s, while there was still some Jewish people living in Brick Lane. Although the area is now populated by Bangladesh immigrants, Beigel Bake is a reminder of the once massive Jewish presence Brick Lane had. What makes Beigel Bake so great is not only its fresh bagels or the fact that it is open 24 hours but its the variety in which they serve them that makes them unique. The fact that their most popular dish is a bagel with salmon and cream cheese makes this all true. So if you’re having a bagel craving stop at Beigel Bake but get there early because there will most likely to be a line. 

Some of the very charming,stylish and jewish related pictures of Jacob Steinhardt. Read about him here.

Jean-Étienne Liotard, The Chocolate Girl, 1744-45, pastel on parchment, 82.5 x 52.5 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Dresden. Source

Jean-Étienne Liotard was a Swiss-French painter specialising in portraits and figurative scenes. This is one of his most famous works and was created using pastels on parchment. Liotard will be the subject of a major exhibition at the Royal Academy this autumn.

JUST SOLD! Autumn Fine Art Auction- Lot 289 $2,000 Artist: Pablo Picasso, After, Spanish (1881 - 1973) Title: Homme a la Pipe Assise sur un Tabouret Year of Original Artwork: 1969 Medium: Lithograph on Arches Paper Edition: 500, 34 AP’s Size: 22 in. x 29 in. (55.88 cm x 73.66 cm) Reference: 3 Chromist: Laurent Marcel Salinas Estate of Picasso, (Marina Picasso) pencil signature and embossed blindstamp lower right. Ink stamp verso ‘Approved by the heirs of Pablo Picasso’

Farkash Gallery, Vintage Israel poster, Old Jaffa, Israel

With Director James Snyder today at the Israel Museum #israelmuseum . A fabulous museum and director #israel #jerusalem #ronagam #agam #greatmuseum #israelbest #jewish #art

Artist: Andy Warhol, After, American (1928 - 1987) Title: Marilyn Monroe 2 Year: of Original: 1964 Medium: Serigraph, stamped verso by Sunday B. Morning Size: 36 in. x 36 in. (91.44 cm x 91.44 cm)

Opening bid: $600, Estimates $1,200 - $1,500

Find more beautiful works like this one at our January Modern & Contemporary Art Auction on January 22nd!

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West African women, unlike their East African sisters, eschew the bright reds and other primary colors. They allow themselves black, white, ocher, yellow and beige earth tones. They do employ blue, but it is the blue black, electric indigo or the soft, subtle blue of West African mornings. Maya Angelou, Art of Africa, Even the Stars Look Lonesome.

Design Patterns from Ghana. Though the colour palette is broader than defined by Maya Angelou I like that the excerpt distinguishes the way colours (and of course designs) vary in African countries and in particular how this is tied to the landscape.

The first pattern reminds me a little of a kolam called Sita Mudichu (Sita’s Knot). and the last of the simple pulli (dot) kolam.

Pic Source.

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The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on unprecedented access to his private papers No American statesman has been as revered or as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Once hailed as “Super K”—the “indispensable man” whose advice has been sought by every president from Kennedy to Obama—he has also been hounded by conspiracy theorists, scouring his every “telcon” for evidence of Machiavellian malfeasance. Yet as Niall Ferguson shows in this magisterial two-volume biography, drawing not only on Kissinger’s hitherto closed private papers but also on documents from more than a hundred archives around the world, the idea of Kissinger as the ruthless arch-realist is based on a profound misunderstanding. The first half of Kissinger’s life is usually skimmed over as a quintessential tale of American ascent: the Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Germany who made it to the White House. But in this first of two volumes, Ferguson shows that what Kissinger achieved before his appointment as Richard Nixon’s national security adviser was astonishing in its own right. Toiling as a teenager in a New York factory, he studied indefatigably at night. He was drafted into the U.S. infantry and saw action at the Battle of the Bulge—as well as the liberation of a concentration camp—but ended his army career interrogating Nazis. It was at Harvard that Kissinger found his vocation. Having immersed himself in the philosophy of Kant and the diplomacy of Metternich, he shot to celebrity by arguing for “limited nuclear war.” Nelson Rockefeller hired him. Kennedy called him to Camelot. Yet Kissinger’s rise was anything but irresistible. Dogged by press gaffes and disappointed by “Rocky,” Kissinger seemed stuck—until a trip to Vietnam changed everything. The Idealist is the story of one of the most important strategic thinkers America has ever produced. It is also a political Bildungsroman, explaining how “Dr. Strangelove” ended up as consigliere to a politician he had always abhorred. Like Ferguson’s classic two-volume history of the House of Rothschild, Kissinger sheds dazzling new light on an entire era. The essential account of an extraordinary life, it recasts the Cold War world.