Category Archives: My Art

“Artist in Residence” – Opening Reception of Noa Yaari’s Exhibition

Date: Thursday, October 20, 2022 Time: 4 pm In-person: The Centre for Jewish Studies, 7th floor of the Kaneff Tower on the Keele campus, York University “Artist in Residence” is an art project Yaari created at home for the Centre for Jewish Studies when the campus was closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It isContinue reading ““Artist in Residence” – Opening Reception of Noa Yaari’s Exhibition”

Why do artists create art? And what circumstances influence their work? 

Art historian Michael Baxandall suggested seeing art as a solution to a problem, where necessities of different kinds “charge” the urge to create it. Accordingly, he saw art historians’ role as giving an account of the factors which brought forth and shaped the finished artwork. I painted on pages 30-31 in Jan von Bonsdorff’s articleContinue reading “Why do artists create art? And what circumstances influence their work? “

On Children

Several weeks ago, I started the process of adopting a child through the Public Adoption in Ontario. I’m also reading Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen (1993) these days. In it, they print Kahlil Gibran’s On Children from the book The Prophet (1923), but they titled it On Parenting. At any rate, I’mContinue reading “On Children”

On the Advantage of Being an All-rounded Emoji

In Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill writes “The man who has been active on campus, whose personality is such that he gets along with all kinds of people and who has done an adequate job with his studies has a most decided edge over the strictly academic student. Some of these, because of theirContinue reading “On the Advantage of Being an All-rounded Emoji”

Stickers and Emojis are Candies for the Eye

The arrangement of stickers and emojis on a sheet influences the thoughts the viewers have while looking at them. For example, “what car do I like most?” or “a grape cluster can fall just like a leaf,” and subsequently, “which one would hit the ground first?” Usually, producers of stickers and emojis spread them thematicallyContinue reading “Stickers and Emojis are Candies for the Eye”

CRRS Fellows Workshop April 12: William Barker & Noa Yaari

Please join me at the Fellows Workshop at the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, the University of Toronto on Tuesday, April 12, 4:00-5:30 pm (EDT). Follow this link for details and registration to the live zoom session: https://crrs.ca/event/fellows22/ William Barker – Inglis Professor, University of Kings College, and Professor Emeritus, English, Dalhousie University; CRRSContinue reading “CRRS Fellows Workshop April 12: William Barker & Noa Yaari”