MELISSA SHIFf (1967-2025)
A retrospective exhibition will be announced.
Reviews
ARK
Curator: The Museum Journal Bruce Jenkins -
“Melissa Shiff’s ARK/ARCHA” , (September 2007 issue)
DNES Mlada Fronta (Prague), Vladimira Sumberova -
“ARCHA Promlouva k liidem”, (Saturday October 7, 2006)
The Prague Post, Mimi Fronczak Rogers -
"Ship of Memories: Melissa Shiff’s video ark is a Jewish Museum centennial highlight”
(September 13-19, 2006)
Lidove Noviny (Prague) -
“Archa se rozsveci po setmeni” (September 16, 2006)
Elijah Chair
Hadassah Magazine review of ‘Elijah Chair’ special exhibition at The Jewish Museum, NY. (Spring Issue, 2004)
Imaginary Jewish Homelands
University of Miami News, Raymond Mathews, “Imagined Jewish Homeland in New York,”
http://www.miami.edu/index.php/news/releases/imagined_jewish_homeland_in_new_york/
(April 18, 2014)
Bill Gladstone The Canadian Jewish News, Re-imagining a Jewish Homeland in New York. p. 50.
online edition: http://www.cjnews.com/arts/re-imagining-jewish-homeland-new-york
The Forward (New York) Renee Ghert-Zand -
A Jewish “Refuge” Virtually Recreated
(April 25, 2012)
Mapping Ararat
The Forward, (New York), “Eretz Niagara Falls”
Video feature edited by Martyna Starosta for a feature report on Mapping Ararat project in Forward online edition.
Jewish Art Now “Augmented Reality of a Lost Jewish Land: Mapping Ararat”,(June 10, 2013)
http://www.jewishartnow.com/2013/06/10/mapping-ararat/
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David S. Green, This day in Jewish history/A Refuge for persecuted Jews is founded – almost
http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/this-day-in-jewish-history/.premium-1.547025
Stephen Struass The Walrus (Canada) - Virtual Homeland: Reimagining the Jewish State that never was, in Grand Island New York (July-August, 2013)
The Forward (New York) - A Jewish “Refuge” Virtually Recreated Renee Ghert-Zand
https://forward.com/schmooze/155299/a-jewish-refuge-virtually-recreated/
Postmodern Jewish Wedding
Tony Ozuna “Revisiting Ritual, The Jewish Wedding, Past, Present and Postmodern, (April 26, 2006) https://c.jewishmuseum.cz/files/documents/media/media_o_muzeu/2006-04-26ThePraguePostRevisitingritual.pdf
Gender Cuts
Boston Globe, Christine Temin -
Review of “Gender Cuts/The Jew Under the Knife”, (January 26, 2000)
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Boston Phoenix, Christopher Millis -
Review of “Gender Cuts/ The Jew Under the Knife”, (January 24, 2000)
The Medium is the Matzo
The Montreal Gazette, Bill Brownstein - "The Medium is the Matzo: Building a show and a house out of Matzo" (April 6, 2011)