Origami For Kids

I'm just back from the opening of "Paper Creatures" at the Jaffa Museum.   Many magnificent  works (about half origami) and much to think about--it will take me several days to ponder it all and write it out.  For the time being here is an unsorted preview of the few things I have decent photos of. Meanwhile--I have my own pieces in this exhibition too, which if they do not lower the average level, certainly do not lead the works in it. As a place-keeper I'll just post the text that I wrote a few months ago to go with the display. --------------------- The Concept "The city of  Zaragoza, in Spain, is famous as the home of Europe's first museum of origami art. But it is also the birthplace of Francisco Goya: and while visiting there I saw a series of etchings of this artist -- a tour de force called " Los Caprichos ", with humans behaving like and turning into donkeys and other animals. In  one image , a handsome man falls asleep at his desk and beh...

If you care about high art--and not just in its origami forms--and you like great splashing colors--and just happen to be in New York City this month----may I suggest you RUN to see Aviva Green's  "Clouds, Canyons and Waterways" , a show of paintings at Kenkeleba House.  (Wilmer Jennings Gallery,  219 East 2nd Street @ Avenue B, East Village, 212 674-3939). These are impressively powerful paintings but deliberately, I think, hard to put words to. For the aim is to express a definite mood without invoking fully definitive objects and scenes.  That this actually works is quite an achievement. And the show itself is exquisitely laid out. The opening reception is on Sunday, September 18,  but you can slip in for a quiet meditative preview now, without the crowds. That's how I like to do it. If you weren't aware, this is also a plug for my Mom, Aviva Green, who is one of the greatest colorists and mood-painters that I know.  Saadya