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THE BUILDER ⚒️

This is my painting for the upcoming Antipodes show at dream gallery BEINART🤩

(gouache on wood panel with a matte-satin varnish.)

#Beinart #art exhibition #group exhibition #surrealism #surreal art #gouache #gouache art #art on wood #painting #illustration #illustration art #artists on tumblr #tumblr art #art #creative #skulls #skull art #macabre art

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#art #beinart gallery #brunswick #daydream #adrian borda

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Masao Kinoshita's "Metanatomy."

Currently on view at Beinart Gallery in Melbourne, Australia is artist Masao Kinoshita's solo exhibition, "Metanatomy."

Masao Kinoshita, a Japanese artist, approaches his work by dividing the world into two concepts: "content" and "space." Content refers to everything that humans have created, such as words, culture, and time, while space includes everything in the universe. Although space cannot be perceived by humans, content helps us to create mental files for our understanding of space.

Kinoshita's sculptures explore themes such as animals, human figures, and costumes, which are all content made from his accumulated files. In his collection, there is a sculpture of an animal with a half-skeleton that was created over ten years ago. Kinoshita hopes that people who see his work will feel the space that it occupies.

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#art #sculpture #masao kinoshita #beinart gallery

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#peter beinart #campus protest #israel #palestine

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by Eli Lake

This is not the first time that prominent Jews have used their words to advance the aims of the enemies of our people. It is, sadly, a long tradition. Centuries ago, when there was no Jewish state, the AsAJews of their day lobbied their hosts in the Diaspora to banish or convert the Jewish people to Christianity and to confiscate and burn the Talmud. There are many examples of this kind of treachery, but there is one episode from the 16th century that truly illuminates our current moment.

August 13, 1509. That is the date on which Emperor Maximilian I of the Holy Roman Empire issued the infamous Padua Mandate, ordering all Jewish books, with the exception of the Old Testament, to be confiscated and destroyed.

By 1509, this kind of edict was not unusual in Europe. The Middle Ages saw a succession of libels proliferated against the Jews. We were accused of stealing or desecrating the substantiation of Christ in the ritual wafer. Of using the blood of Christian children in secret rituals. We were condemned as sorcerers, alchemists, necromancers, heretics, and blasphemers. And even though these tales were fictions, the punishments were very real. When a Jew was accused of defiling the wafer in the German town of Belitz in the 13th century, all the Jews there were burned at the stake. The blood libel of 1475, which claimed that Jews kidnapped, tortured, and killed a boy known as Simon of Trent, resulted in a similar pogrom.

Jewish books in particular were a target for the Medieval anti-Semites who believed that the Talmud contained in its pages knowledge of magic that gave Jews special powers. They also thought that the Talmud encouraged heresies against the Church and taught Jews to hate Catholics. In this respect the German-born Maximilian was part of a long tradition that sought to abolish Jewish learning. By the time of the Padua Mandate, he had already expelled the Jews living in three of the Holy Roman Empire’s German territories.

Still, by the standards of European leaders of the day, Maximilian was by no means the worst. Despite his expulsions, there were prominent Jewish families throughout Germany that prospered. He was hostile to the Jews, but he was not a fanatic. What led him to issue the Padua Mandate was a man who had the zeal of the convert, an AsAJew named Johannes Pfefferkorn.

Born in Nuremberg in 1469, Pfefferkorn was a mediocrity. He was a vagabond who wandered medieval Germany before ending up in Cologne. In 1505, he was convicted and imprisoned for robbing a butcher. But by the next year he was free. He announced he’d had an epiphany in prison, and, in 1506, Pfefferkorn converted to Catholicism and was baptized by Dominican friars along with his wife and children.

A little background on the Dominicans, who were among the leaders of the Spanish Inquisition: We remember that first effort at eliminating Jewry in Europe because of its expulsion of Jewish citizens, horrific forced conversions, and monstrous acts of mass torture. But a major component of the Inquisition was a war on Jewish texts. By the time of the Inquisition, the targeting of Jewish books had been going on for at least 100 years. The first major burnings and confiscations of the Talmud happened in the 13th century at the urgings of both popes and kings. And even though the Jews formally appealed to the Vatican, their protests fell on deaf ears.

One instigator of all this was an earlier Jewish convert to Catholicism. His name was Nicholas Donin. He persuaded Pope Gregory IX that the Jewish Talmud was a vicious slander against Christ and his followers. And it was Gregory who ordered the confiscation and burnings of the Talmud during the Inquisition.

So when Pfefferkorn wandered out of jail back in 1505, the Dominicans believed they had found their next Donin, an ex-Jew who could persuade the Church and the emperor to round up all the Talmuds in Germany.

#asajew #jews #talmud #jewish voice for peace #peter beinart #sally hunt #diaspora jews

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Because everybody who is neither a child nor an antisemite knows, “replacing” the State of Israel with a state that does not in any sense “favour Jews” would, in the world as it exists at the moment, have zero chance of fulfilling either of the tasks history set Israel:

“Replacing” Israel would not result in a democratic state.

“Replacing” Israel would not result in a state that “favours Jews” by guaranteeing Jewish survival.

If and when the people of Israel, and the Palestinians too, make democratic decisions to abandon their democratic aspirations for self determination and and to liquidate their national independence into some larger institution, that’ll be fine with me. I would not oppose it, in fact, I would welcome it – as I welcome, after decades of democratic self-determination, bringing down the border between France and Germany.

But for obvious reasons, this isn’t happening in the current context.

People who say that Israel – any Israel – is inherently racist do not want to persuade Israelis to liquidate their state into a bigger democratic institution. They know that either this is a very passive and very long term campaign of changing the minds of Israel and therefore completely irrelevant to making this better now  – or, and they know this too, their demand to “replace” Israel is a demand to dismantle it without having first persuaded Israelis to consent.  In other words, it is a programme for conquest. And that will not succeed, and if it did, it would not deliver either democracy nor Jewish survival.

So people can look at the contradictory tasks that history has set Israel and wince at the difficulty of the challenge. But they know that “replacing” Israel is more difficult, it is so difficult as to be, at this time, Utopian.

The problem with Utopia is not that we don’t like it, and it’s not that we don’t want to live there. The problem is that Utopian thinking has no way of going from here to there. It doesn’t start with an understanding of what exists, and how it might be made better. It starts with nice ideas inside Peter Beinart’s head, and judges the real world to be a horrible place indeed compared to that.

The irony, of course, is that if you’re going to believe in fairies, you should at least believe in pretty ones – and Peter Beinart’s imaginary fairies aren’t even pretty. To go back to IHRA, from where Beinart starts this discussion: the problem isn’t IHRA giving special privileges to those who suffer from antisemitism with respect to those who suffer from other unjust structures of power.

IHRA doesn’t “favour” Jews because because it is “Zionist” and so inevitably racist.

The problem, for Beinart, is that IHRA was already written in awareness the dangers of his Utopian thinking, as it is made material in the world that exists.

#peter beinart #israel #replacing israel #utopia #ihra definition of antisemitism #democratic state

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A MUST READ! Read it, twice, then ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE!

Peter is a friend. He has been in audiences I've addressed. I've been in audiences he has addressed. I read his writings. He reads my writings. We learn from each other. He has my utmost R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

Jewish Currents by Peter Beinart

“Could Israel Carry Out Another Nakba?”

#Palestine #Israel #Nakba #Nakba75 #Peter Beinart

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Expressive Eyes Painted by Robyn Rich Peek Out from Vintage Tins

What does it mean to see? To be seen? Artist Robyn Rich (previously) examines these questions in her practice as she paints realistic eyes that peer out from vintage tins and small vessels. The tiny works harness physical particularities to relay the emotions and idiosyncrasies of the subject, whether through thick brows, wrinkles, or mascaraed lashes that frame the delicate organs. Intimate and unsettling when displayed in large collections, the miniature pieces explore various aspects of the gaze and perspective and ask who is watching whom.

All images courtesy of Beinart Gallery

#robyn rich #artist #art #painted eyes #eyes #vintage tins #hyper-realistic paintings #beinart gallery

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Except for Palestine Paperback Release

Except for Palestine Paperback Release

On May 31, the paperback version of Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by myself and Marc Lamont Hill will be released. If you were waiting for the paper version to get your copy, well, your time has come! Order it here from Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee and Books, Marc’s independent bookstore. If you already have one, tell your friends to buy it now. You can see the description of…

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#Ahmad Abuznaid #BDS #Cornel West #Except for Palestine #Gaza #Khaled Elgindy #Lara Friedman #Marc Lamont Hill #Palestine #Peter beinart #Rashid Khalidi #U.S. Foreign Policy

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Democracy Now! Jul 19, 2022

Peter Beinart: The Israel Lobby Is Spending Millions to Defeat Progressive Democrats

Pro-Israel lobby groups have spent "shocking" amounts of money to change the course of multiple Democratic congressional primaries over the past year alone, reports our guest Peter Beinart. The latest is in Maryland, where former Congressmember Donna Edwards is being outspent sevenfold by corporate attorney Glenn Ivey in her bid to win back her old seat in the state's 4th Congressional District. Beinart, the editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, says the AIPAC-led PACs disguise their attack ads with local issues but in reality are designed to oust candidates who take stances in support of Palestinian rights and working people.  

#Democracy Now! #us politics #citizens united #AIPAC #progressives #democratic party #progressive politics #Peter Beinart #voting #money in politics #israel

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#noa beinart #contralto

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'Abduction', 8 by 8", oil on wood panel, my new painting for the "Small Works 2023" group exhibition in Australia with @beinartgallery.

Opening reception: Saturday, September 16th, 6 - 9pm.

Exhibition runs Sept 17th - Oct 8th.

Please dm @beinartgallery for inquiries about acquiring this piece.

#Abduction #beinartGallery #newcontemporary #newcontemporaryart #artExhibition #australia

#art #Jolene lai #oil painting #painting #abduction #artwork #female artist #new contemporary art #small works #Australia #beinart gallery #Instagram #artist

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#art #beinart gallery #brunswick #stephanie kilgast #mushrooms

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Abigail Goldman's "Small Improvements."

Currently on view at Beinart Gallery in Melbourne, Australia is artist Abigail Goldman's solo exhibition, "Small Improvements."

"Small Improvements" is the latest collection of sculptures by Abigail Goldman. They are miniature, rendered in 1:87 scale: the figures in each work are just under 2 centimeters tall.

Goldman calls these miniature scenes “dieoramas.” While they initially appear charming, the viewer looking closely soon realizes that the diminutive figures within each dieorama are holding weapons, lying in pools of blood or standing in a kitchen, serving body parts for breakfast. What first appears to be a generic suburban family setting unfolds into a macabre tableau where miniature mayhem reigns.

The dieoramas in Small Improvements are part of Goldman’s ongoing exploration of violence and our deepest selves, which are more depraved than we admit. The pull of violence is everywhere—in breathless TV news coverage of crime, in the movies and shows we consume, and in our primal selves, which are revealed in fleeting moments of daily rage: at the car that cuts us off on the highway, the boss that passes us over for promotion. Increasingly, we are angry and divided. Increasingly, we are unmoved by violence, which has become commonplace and predictable.

Dieoramas are an effort to capture and contain rage, to disarm with the contrast of awful and adorable, and to invite the viewer to assess their own attraction to misery and mayhem. In this way, dieoramas become both cathartic totems and miniature monuments to the id. Goldman finds that for every one person repelled by her dieoramas, there are three who delight in them. The vast majority of us, she believes, are fundamentally dark, and driven ever darker by our modern condition.

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#art #sculpture #abigail goldman #beinart gallery

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#being autistic #being alone #being as an ocean #being a writer #peter beinart #Youtube

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#fascists #antizionists #bds #jewish antizionists #ariel gold #peter beinart