Friday, July 31, 2026

Winner!

This is not a photo.

 Alex with his tefillin in the sea, by Michael Zavros - Art Gallery of NSW/MichaelZavros

The Archibald Prize is Australia's most prestigious annual portrait painting award, a AU$100,000 prize, and a major cultural event managed by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. 

This year's winner painted by Michael Zavros: Alex Ryvchin wearing tefillin. The work was dedicated to a fallen friend of Alex Ryvchin, who was killed when IS-linked gunmen opened fire on a Chabad Chanukah event. 

Ryvchin, born in Ukraine, previously served as a spokesman for the Zionist Federation UK. He has published four books, and now serves as co-chief executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the country’s equivalent of the Board of Deputies. Zavros remarked that Ryvchin is an “unmistakably and unashamedly Jewish” leader.

For more on this see The Jewish Chronicle

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