Don Hollis from East Texas

Don Hollis is a potter in East Texas who uses techniques akin to those used by early Native Americans. He collects and processes his own clay, does not use a wheel, and his process is as green as possible..

The essence of Don Hollis' unique art pottery is the wild clay body made from local Eocene clays. He collects clay from a creek bank on his property or wherever it's found at the surface and offered. The clay is dried, screened, and prepared in small batches yielding enough for one or two pieces at a time. Don forms his pottery with hand building methods such as pinch, coil, and slab. During the drying stage, the pieces are burnished with a smooth flint stone to give the surface a distinctive shine. The pottery is pit fired using wood gathered from the woods around his studio. Dried native plants and select organics added for color, as well as the fire clouds added by Mother Nature during firing, give each piece its final unique character.

Ghost made in Japan ?

Remember the passionate pottery wheel scene between Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze in the 1990 film Ghost. Now, 20 years later, Korean heartthrob Song Seung-heon and Japanese sweetheart Nanako Matsushima have reenacted the "Unchained Melody" moment.

"The remake reenacts some of the most touching scenes in the original, including the pottery-making scene. I hope viewers can feel a pang of nostalgia, thinking 'oh there was that kind of scene', while watching the movie", Song told reporters in Seoul, Tuesday, following a press preview.
The Korea-Japan-United States joint production",Ghost : In Your Arms Again", is about an undying love affair between a Korean pottery artist (Song) and Japanese businesswoman (Matsushima) ― even death does not come between the inseparable couple.
But a twist in the new film, directed by Tarô Ohtani, is that the heroine, rather than the hero, reappears before her lover as a ghost after an untimely death.
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If you sit by the river long enough...

This list of 100 novels was drawn up by the editorial board of Modern Library. Where possible, book titles have been linked to either the original New York Times review or a later article about the book.

1. "Ulysses," James Joyce

2. "The Great Gatsby," F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," James Joyce

4. "Lolita," Vladimir Nabokov

5. "Brave New World," Aldous Huxley

6. "The Sound and the Fury," William Faulkner

7. "Catch-22," Joseph Heller

8. "Darkness at Noon," Arthur Koestler

9. "Sons and Lovers," D. H. Lawrence

10. "The Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck

11. "Under the Volcano," Malcolm Lowry

12. "The Way of All Flesh," Samuel Butler

13. "1984," George Orwell

14. "I, Claudius," Robert Graves

15. "To the Lighthouse," Virginia Woolf

16. "An American Tragedy," Theodore Dreiser

17. "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," Carson McCullers

18. "Slaughterhouse Five," Kurt Vonnegut

19. "Invisible Man," Ralph Ellison

20. "Native Son," Richard Wright

21. "Henderson the Rain King," Saul Bellow

22. "Appointment in Samarra," John O' Hara

23. "U.S.A." (trilogy), John Dos Passos

24. "Winesburg, Ohio," Sherwood Anderson

25. "A Passage to India," E. M. Forster

26. "The Wings of the Dove," Henry James

27. "The Ambassadors," Henry James

28. "Tender Is the Night," F. Scott Fitzgerald

29. "The Studs Lonigan Trilogy," James T. Farrell

30. "The Good Soldier," Ford Madox Ford

31. "Animal Farm," George Orwell

32. "The Golden Bowl," Henry James

33. "Sister Carrie," Theodore Dreiser

34. "A Handful of Dust," Evelyn Waugh

35. "As I Lay Dying," William Faulkner

36. "All the King's Men," Robert Penn Warren

37. "The Bridge of San Luis Rey," Thornton Wilder

38. "Howards End," E. M. Forster

39. "Go Tell It on the Mountain," James Baldwin

40. "The Heart of the Matter," Graham Greene

41. "Lord of the Flies," William Golding

42. "Deliverance," James Dickey

43. "A Dance to the Music of Time" (series), Anthony Powell

44. "Point Counter Point," Aldous Huxley

45. "The Sun Also Rises," Ernest Hemingway

46. "The Secret Agent," Joseph Conrad

47. "Nostromo," Joseph Conrad

48. "The Rainbow," D. H. Lawrence

49. "Women in Love," D. H. Lawrence

50. "Tropic of Cancer," Henry Miller

51. "The Naked and the Dead," Norman Mailer

52. "Portnoy's Complaint," Philip Roth

53. "Pale Fire," Vladimir Nabokov

54. "Light in August," William Faulkner

55. "On the Road," Jack Kerouac

56. "The Maltese Falcon," Dashiell Hammett

57. "Parade's End," Ford Madox Ford

58. "The Age of Innocence," Edith Wharton

59. "Zuleika Dobson," Max Beerbohm

60. "The Moviegoer," Walker Percy

61. "Death Comes to the Archbishop," Willa Cather

62. "From Here to Eternity," James Jones

63. "The Wapshot Chronicles," John Cheever

64. "The Catcher in the Rye," J. D. Salinger

65. "A Clockwork Orange," Anthony Burgess

66. "Of Human Bondage," W. Somerset Maugham

67. "Heart of Darkness," Joseph Conrad

68. "Main Street," Sinclair Lewis

69. "The House of Mirth," Edith Wharton

70. "The Alexandria Quartet," Lawrence Durrell

71. "A High Wind in Jamaica," Richard Hughes

72. "A House for Ms. Biswas," V. S. Naipaul

73. "The Day of the Locust," Nathaniel West

74. "A Farewell to Arms," Ernest Hemingway

75. "Scoop," Evelyn Waugh

76. "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," Muriel Spark

77. "Finnegans Wake," James Joyce

78. "Kim," Rudyard Kipling

79. "A Room With a View," E. M. Forster

80. "Brideshead Revisited," Evelyn Waugh

81. "The Adventures of Augie March," Saul Bellow

82. "Angle of Repose," Wallace Stegner

83. "A Bend in the River," V. S. Naipaul

84. "The Death of the Heart," Elizabeth Bowen

85. "Lord Jim," Joseph Conrad

86. "Ragtime," E. L. Doctorow

87. "The Old Wives' Tale," Arnold Bennett

88. "The Call of the Wild," Jack London

89. "Loving," Henry Green

90. "Midnight's Children," Salman Rushdie

91. "Tobacco Road," Erskine Caldwell

92. "Ironweed," William Kennedy

93. "The Magus," John Fowles

94. "Wide Sargasso Sea," Jean Rhys

95. "Under the Net," Iris Murdoch

96. "Sophie's Choice," William Styron

97. "The Sheltering Sky," Paul Bowles

98. "The Postman Always Rings Twice," James M. Cain

99. "The Ginger Man," J. P. Donleavy

100. "The Magnificent Ambersons," Booth Tarkington

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...dada, mama, wood & potter

When this documentary was filmed in Ojai, California in 1992 Beatrice was a one hundred year old internationally recognized artist who had led a truly remarkable life. As one of the core members of the renegade dada art movement in the 1910's in New York, Beatrice Wood was intimately involved with Marcel Duchamp and Henri Pierre Roché, whose novel Jules et Jim is based on the relationship between the three of them. Beatrice Wood was Duchamp's muse, and she was the last surviving link to those heady times. In 1962 the novel was adapted for the silver screen and made into the film Jules et Jim that starred Jeanne Moreau and Oskar Werner. It was directed by François Truffaut.
The film was the winner of the CINE Golden Eagle and was the first American film to win the Golden Panda award at the Sichuan Television Festival, Chengdu China. The film appeared nationally on PBS in late 1993.
Of note is that Beatrice served as the inspiration for the character "Rose," in the film Titanic. The director, James Cameron, spent quality time with Beatrice before filming Titanic. Hence, the music in the background is from the soundtrack of Titanic. So, turn your speakers on and enjoy.
Tom Neff produced and directed this film.
Unless indicated, Lou Delgado is the photographer.

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Tonight at Melanie

ביום שני אצל מלני

משעה שבע בערב

לא כשר!!!

לאכול עם זאבים

(BETA גרסאת)

לאכול עם זאבים

(BETA גרסאת)

לאכול עם זאבים

(BETA גרסאת)

ביום שני אצל מלני

משעה שבע בערב

לא כשר!!!

לאכול עם זאבים

(BETA גרסאת)

ביום שני אצל מלני

משעה שבע בערב

לא כשר!!!

לאכול עם זאבים

(גרסאת BETA)

ביום שני אצל מלני

משעה שבע בערב

לא כשר!!!

כתבים חתומים Signed Manuscripts

דיאלוג - נדב בלוך

Humankind uses text as a tool to communicate and impart messages, ideas, concepts and significances by which to explain, interpret and decipher the world of phenomena and images.

Art uses sign language as an intermediary to convey messages between the artist and the observer.

The art work shown in this exhibition is the personal journal of a continuous journey by artists Nechama Levendel and Nadav Bloch in various countries.

Nadav Bloch disassembles ideas into letters and colors, using Hebrew, Latin and Arabic symbols to indicate the three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Through constant search and Sisyphean effort Nadav builds strata of letters woven together in transparent layers using the three primary colors – red, blue and yellow. During the work process he creates strata of letters that describe various periods in the development of human history. As the upper layers build up, the lower layers slowly disappear. At the depth of the transparent layers, the light reveals a chaotic and confused world that expresses the lack of knowledge, understanding and ability to weave a clear universal text accepted by all. In the transparent language strata, mergers are woven in identical colors that create similarities between the letters, their interactions, and the gradual dialog that develops into a dynamics of understanding the necessity to communicate.

Nechama Levendel chose the book as the topic of her work – the book as a personal, social and environmental element that contains local and universal messages and values, which change in relation to time and place. Through travels and living in the countries where the artists have stayed, relationships were formed with the native inhabitants. Nechama received used books and incorporated the local knowledge she gained into her artistic work. The binding and weaving of the books is performed by using local characteristics such as samples of illustrations and weaving, local texts, used candles from local churches, discovered accessories, whilst using the region’s shades and the motif of rust color to indicate the changes in time. By means of meticulously coded messages, the books change their destiny – from clear structures of sentences and ideas they become architectural objects that hold an esthetic visual message.

Nechama Levendel Nadav Bloch

0544546530

levendelbloch@yahoo.com

Nadav Bloch

Nechama Levendel

Levendel-Bloch Gallery

Ein Hod artists Village 30890 Israel

Tel: 972 544546530

Tel: 972 546456530

http://www.lbart.com/

אם ננעלו - נחמה לבנדל

תערוכה ביריד הספרים הבינלאומי בירושלים: "כתבים חתומים" האמנים נחמה לבנדל ונדב בלוך

העבודות המוצגות בתערוכה זו הינן יומן אישי ממסע אמנותי מתמשך של האמנים נחמה לבנדל ונדב בלוך בארצות שונות. נדב בלוך מפרק בעבודותיו רעיונות לאותיות וצבע תוך שימוש בשפה עברית, לטינית וערבית כמאפיין לשלוש הדתות המונותאיסטיות: יהדות, נצרות ואיסלם. בחיפוש מתמיד ובאופן סיזיפי בונה נדב רבדים של אותיות הנרקמות בשכבות שקופות תוך שימוש בשלושת צבעי היסוד - אדום, כחול וצהוב. בתהליך העבודה נוצרים רבדים של אותיות המתארות תקופות זמן שונות בהתפתחות ההיסטוריה האנושית. ככל שנוספות שכבות הולכות ונעלמות השכבות התחתונות. בעומקן של השכבות השקופות חושף האור עולם כאוטי מבולבל המבטא את חוסר הידיעה וההבנה ואי היכולת לארוג טקסט אוניברסלי ברור המקובל על כולם. בשכבות השפה השקופות נרקמים מיזוגים בגוונים זהים היוצרים קווי דמיון בין האותיות, ביחסי הגומלין בינהן ובדיאלוג הדרגתי המתפתח לדינמיקה של הבנת הצורך בהידברות

נחמה לבנדל בחרה בספר כנושא לעבודה. הספר כאלמנט אישי חברתי וסביבתי בעל מסרים וערכים מקומיים ואוניברסליים המשתנים ביחס למקום וזמן. תוך כדי נדודים והחיים במדינה בה שוהים האמנים נרקמים יחסים עם התושבים, נחמה מקבלת ספרים משומשים ומשלבת בעבודתה האמנותית את הידע הנלמד במקום. עבודת הכריכה ואריגת הספרים נעשית תוך שימוש במאפינים מקומיים, כגון דוגמאות איור ואריגה, טקסט מקומי, נרות משומשים מכנסייות אזוריות, אביזרים שנמצאו, שימוש בגווני האזור ומוטיב גוון החלודה המאפיין שינוי בזמן. תוך עבודה קפדנית של הצפנת מסרים , הספרים משנים יעדם , ממבנים ברורים של משפטים ורעיונות הופכים למבנים ארכיטקטוניים ולאובייקטים בעלי מסר ויזואלי אסטטי.

בתערוכה מוצגות כ- 40 עבודות. התערוכה תפתח לקהל ביום ראשון בשעה 18.00

התערוכה השניה היא תערוכת צילומים של זוכי פרס השלום של התאחדות המולי"ם בגרמניה.פתיחת תערוכה לרגל מלאת 60 שנים לפרס השלום של התאחדות המו"לים בגרמניה. פתיחת התערוכה תצוין עם דיון מרצה: שגריר גרמניה בישראל ד"ר ד"ר כבוד האראלד קינדרמן, משתתפים: דוד גרוסמן (ישראל), מרטין שולט (גרמניה), אן בירקנהאואר (גרמניה). מנחה: אינגה גונטר (גרמניה).

התערוכה מתקיימת בשיתוף עם התאחדות המו"לים הגרמנית, מכון גתה בירושלים ויריד הספרים הבינלאומי בפרנקפורט ותהיה פתוחה לקהל במשך כל היריד. התערוכה כוללת צילומים של זוכי פרס השלום, מאז הקמתו בשנת 1950. הפרס נוסד בשנת 1949 על ידי האנס שוורץ, שפנה לקבוצת מוציאים לאור גרמניים ואלה החליטו להעניק פרס פעם בשנה לאושיה שעשתה למען השלום. הפרס הראשון ניתן למרק טאו. במשך השנים זכו בפרסים אישים ביניהם: אלברט שוויצר (1951), הרמן הסה ( 1955), יהודי מנוחין ( 1979), ואצלאב האבל (1989), עמוס עוז (1992), דוד גרוסמן (2010) התערוכה

תפתח ביום ראשון 20.2. בין השעות : 19:45-21:00

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Mary Gotlieb in Ein Hod

Made in Dusseldorf
Mary Gottlieb
Opening : Saturday January 29th 12:00
Ein Hod Gallery