Shorts: Art

Professor-filmmaker in S.F. to discuss Jewish influence on modern art

Phillip Eliasoph, an art history professor and authority on 20th-century American painting, will be in San Francisco to deliver a lecture titled "The Influence of Jews on Modern Art." Eliasoph has served as a consultant to PBS for the series "Art of the Western World" and won the CINE Golden Eagle Award for Best Art Documentary Film Producer.

Eliasoph will speak 7:30 p.m. Nov. 12 at Congregation Emanu-El, 2 Lake St., S.F. Admission is free. For more information, please call (415) 751-2535.




X-Ray Project coming to San Jose

The X-Ray Project, an exhibit documenting the impact of terrorism on ordinary people through anonymous X-rays of its survivors, will be on display in the Martin Luther King Library at San Jose State University from Nov. 5 to 16. The library is located at 150 E. San Fernando St., San Jose.

The artist, Diane Covert, collected X-rays from the two largest hospitals in Jerusalem and displays them without disclosing any personal information about the victims.

Co-sponsors of the exhibit are Students for an Open Society, Radiology Interest Group at Stanford, Chabad at Stanford, Jewish Community Relations Council and StandWithUs.

The X-Ray Project was shown at Stanford last month.