EVERYONE IN THE ARK

Noah Leads Us From Blueberry Island to the Empire State Building by Karen Loew             “Noah’s Ark” by Edward Hicks Once upon a time…a flood covered the entire Earth. A number of humans and animals floated in a ship until the water receded. Then they left the ship and re-started

THE BOTTLE AND THE BIBLE

Noah, Phil Ochs, and Us by Stephen Hazan Arnoff It says in the Bible that Noah was the righteous man of his generation, which commentators of old noted was corrupt and twisted. Noah would have done well to make a Marxist exit from the Generation of the Flood – “Please accept my resignation. I don’t want to

FOLLOW THE LINE!

On Mythical Spaces and the Practice of Drawing by Tirtzah Bassel           For me, mythical spaces address the gap between the world I see and the world I feel. As a visual artist, I use the practice of drawing to navigate these breaks, or openings, in my experience. On my studio

YOU ARE PROBABLY IN A MYTHOLOGICAL PLACE RIGHT NOW

How Woody Allen Found His Way into My Ark by Elissa Strauss         Myths are stories that explain the inexplicable. They answer questions like: Where did we come from? And where should we go? There are the classic mythological places, like Atlantis, Shangri-La, Eden and Noah’s Ark, which for centuries colored human understanding about

WAS THE ARK HEAVEN OR HELL?

A Brief Debate by Basmat Hazan and Ruby Namdar                 Did Noah turn to drink after leaving the ark because he was sad to have left the heaven? Or traumautized from living in hell? “Drunkenness of Noah” by Giovanni BelliniBasmat: Ten generations after humans were created, not long after