It is a mitzvah to light candles on the eight-day holiday of Hanukah, the Festival of Lights. The blessing over the candles recited each night, “ l’hadlik ner shel Hanukah ,” is on kindling the Hanukah candle, in singular. If one does not possess enough candles, lighting one candle can fulfill the mitzvah. Read More »

We are experiencing “The End of Art” as the visual perception of surface gives way to the conceptual grasp of inner significance. Read More »

I was seated at a large oak table in the printroom of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a quiet ritual, one Rembrandt at a time was placed on a delicate easel in front of me as the tissue paper protecting the picture was slowly removed. As his etching Abraham Entertaining the Angels was uncovered, I saw that only two of the angels had wings. Read More »

  In its third chapter, the Bible shifts its focus from all of humanity to the life of Abraham and the story of the Children of Israel. It begins with the divine command to leave one’s familiar past in order to envision a new future. Read More »

We will post on this Future-of-Art blog during the Hebrew year 5772, excepts from Mel Alexenberg’s book The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness corresponding to the weekly Torah reading. Read More »

It’s out!! Today, I received the book in the mail for the publisher (Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press). Read More »

From the back cover of my new book published by Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press, 2011: In The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age , artist and educator Mel Alexenberg offers a vision of a postdigital future that reveals a paradigm shift from the Hellenistic to the Hebraic roots of western culture. Read More »

ZKM //// Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe Programm 02 /2007 / Mel Alexenberg Mi, 07.02. Read More »

Mel Alexenberg and Ken Treister, Torah Spectrogram Hupa , Miami Emunah Magazine Winter 2007/5767 The Future of Art in a Digital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consiousness By Mel Alexenberg, Intellect Books, UK, 2006 Mel Alexenberg is Professor of Art and Jewish Thought and Head of the Creative Arts Program at Emunah College in Jersalem. Read More »

LightsOROT exhibition on spiritual dimensions of the electronic age created by Mel Alexenberg and Otto Piene at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies for Yeshiva University Museum in New York Leonardo Reviews International Society for the Arts, Read More »

Mel Alexenberg, Four Wings of America , Tziztit ritual fringes at the NW corner of USA flowing into the Pacfic Ocean at Neah Bay in Washington State Forward February 2, 2007www.forward. Read More »