Happy Mother’s Day!

Eduardo Terrazas First Solo UK Show at Timothy Taylor

Eduardo Terrazas Possibilities of a Structure: Grid 1.4.12, 1974-2015, Wool yarn on wooden board covered with Campeche wax 35 ½ x 35 ½ in.

How does your garden grow? 

Not very tall, if it’s full of dachshunds.

This peculiar illustration comes from the guest book of the Hewitt family, the founders of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The book spanned more than 50 years and included signatures and more involved artwork and poems.

Lacking context or explanation, “Dachshund Nursery” was probably done by Caroline King Duer, a frequent visitor to the Hewitt’s Ringwood Manor, in 1896. Learn more from cooperhewitt‘s blog.

Yemenite Jewish children, Sana'a, Yemen, Circa 1909. By Hermann Burchardt.

Aphotographer returns to his home town of Detroit to capture a city and its people, bent but “unbroken.” 

When Mosses met God , he asked him his name and God replied “I am that I am”. Thus it was the transformation of whole religious notion because now human no longer could control the God. #Evolution of #religions. #atheist #atheism #God #jewish by bemayaar https://instagram.com/p/8TvDSKDR3Z/

Happy birthday, Ian McDiarmid! We have watched your career with great interest.

The synagogue in Chodorov, in western Ukraine, was built in 1652 completely of wood and has remarkable, multicolored painting on its walls and ceiling. The artist drew his inspiration from Jewish heritage, Hebraic motives, the Bible and Talmud and from hand-written, illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages. Reconstruction of a section of the ceiling at Tel Aviv Museum of the Diaspora.

More beauties here.

A History of True Detective’s New Theme Song, ‘Nevermind’

Going into the premiere episode of True Detective season two, we knew the answers to almost all of the show’s most basic, production-based mysteries: who’d star, who’d direct, and where the season would be set. But there was still one crucial piece of the puzzle missing: Who would sing the theme song? As we learned, the answer to that question turned out to be pretty awesome: none other than Leonard Cohen.

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Yemenite Jewish bride getting ready

“Unrolling the Torah”, oil painting by Mané-Katz, from 1938