Archive for the 'Art' Category

Pinter’s The Caretaker at the Harvey Theater in Brooklyn: A classic has lost none of its power

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

 

Click here to read: “Pinter’s The Caretaker at the Harvey Theater in Brooklyn: A classic has lost none of its power” by Fred Mazelis from World Socialist Web Site on May 23, 2012.

Hysteria; Loose Cannons; film notes

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

 

Click here to read: “Hysteria; Loose Cannons; film notes” by Sawyer J. Lahr from Windy City Media Group on May 23, 2012.

PRADA presents “A THERAPY”

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

 

Click here to watch: “PRADA presents ‘A THERAPY’” by Prada via YouTube on May 22, 2012.

Remnants and recollections: Highlighting the experience of Sephardi Jews during the Holocaust

Sunday, May 13th, 2012

Click Here to Read: Remnants and recollections: Highlighting the experience of Sephardi Jews during the Holocaust on the United States Holocaust Museum Website.

Photography Friday: Arlene Kramer Richards

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

Doorway in Chongqing, China, by  Arlene Kramer Richards

If you would like to have your photography considered for internationalpsychoanalysis.net’s Photography Friday, send your jpeg images to Joel Seligmann, the photography editor.

Knowing Your Way Around

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

Click Here to Read: Knowing Your Way Around by Alva Noe on the NPR website on May 4, 2012.

Lunch with the FT: Anish Kapoor

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

Click Here to Read:   Lunch with the FT: Anish Kapoor By Jackie Wullschlager in the Financial Times on May 5, 2012,

Up in Smoke

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012






Click Here to Read: Up in Smoke By David Kramer in the New York Times on April 30, 2012.

Freedom and Art

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

Click Here to Read: Freedom and Art by Charles Rosen in New York Review of Bnoks, May 10, 2012 Issue.

The Metropolitan Opera’s 1991 production of The Magic Flute, with sets by David Hockney.

3,000 Ancient Buddhas Unearthed in China

Saturday, April 21st, 2012


Click Here to Read: Pictures: 3,000 Ancient Buddhas Unearthed in China by Ker Than on the National Geographic website on April 17. 2012.

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Matisse was a neuroscientist

Saturday, April 14th, 2012




Click Here to Read: Matisse was a neuroscientist By Dan Vergano in USA Today April 13, 2012.

Click Here to Read: The Unconscious and the Silent Brain and other posts on Eric Kandel on this website.

Tapping Psychic Undercurrents: ‘The Spirit Level,’ Group Show

Friday, April 13th, 2012

Click Here to Read: Tapping Psychic Undercurrents: ‘The Spirit Level,’ Group Show at Gladstone Gallery, Chelsea By K by Karen Rosenberg in the New York Times on April 12, 2012.

An installation view showing, from far left on the floor, “Wall Cascade,” a fabric work by Sam Gilliam; “The Blind Leading the Blind,” sculptures by Peter Buggenhout; and, displayed on the wall, “Untitled,” by Joe Bradley, at the Gladstone Gallery.

Analysing Louise Bourgeois: art, therapy and Freud.

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

Click Here to Read: Analysing Louise Bourgeois: art, therapy and Freud.  Louise Bourgeois was in therapy for more than 30 years and wrote an essay on ‘Freud’s Toys’. The Freud museum in London has a display of her work and recently unearthed writings about her analysis by Christopher Turner on the guardian.co.uk website on April 6, 2012.

Louise Bourgeois working on Sleep II in Italy, 1967,

Nobel Winner Eric Kandel: ‘The Age of Insight,’ Memory, the Holocaust, and the Art of Vienna

Sunday, April 1st, 2012

Click Here to Read:  Nobel Winner Eric Kandel: ‘The Age of Insight,’ Memory, the Holocaust, and the Art of Vienna on the Daily Beast website on April 1, 2012.

Klimt’s ‘Medicine’

Eavesdropping on Dreams by Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg

Sunday, March 25th, 2012

Click Here to Read:  Flyer for Eavesdropping on Dreams and link to order tickets.

EAVESDROPPING  ON DREAMS–A NEW PLAY ABOUT THE TRANS-GENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF THE HOLOCAUST TRAUMA
BY RIVKA BEKERMAN-GREENBERG, PH.D

 

Lynn Cohen and Jake Robards set to headline the cast of the world premiere of Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg’s EAVESDROPPING ON DREAMS, presented Off-Broadway by Barefoot Theatre Company with previews beginning April 20 prior to an official press opening of Sunday April 29 at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre (38 Commerce Street) in Manhattan. Ronald Cohen will direct.

EAVESDROPPING ON DREAMS is Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg’s haunting play about three generations of women in one family and their struggles with coming to terms with the aftermath of the Holocaust. Shaina Eberkohn, a 25 (more…)

Filling in the painful spaces by Ilany Kogan

Monday, March 19th, 2012

Filling in the painful spaces

N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor         

Ilany Kogan, writes about holes: voids, memory-erased spaces of open-mouthed silent screams.  She presents cases of children or grandchildren of those who survived the Holocaust, documenting how their psychic holes are populated, filled in with unconscious fantasies, enacted in their lives.

Her work, as you will read here or in her books, is pains-taking:  she absorbs the pains, metabolizes them, and

Figure 2 Berlin Jewish Museum Memory Void (more…)

Sailors, psychoanalysis and star anise

Saturday, March 17th, 2012

Click Here to Read:  Sailors, psychoanalysis and star anise by R.M. Vaughan  on the Globe and Mail website on  March 16, 2012.

Detail of “Waterlocked” (2010) by Uriel Orlow

Giant spider moves into Freud’s garden for Louise Bourgeois exhibition

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

Click Here to Read: Giant spider moves into Freud’s garden for Louise Bourgeois exhibition. Freud Museum show was inspired by discovery from a cache of the artist’s writing that she had undergone psychoanalysis
Louise Bourgeois at the Freud Museum – in pictures by Alex Needham on the guardian.co.uk website on March 7, 2012.

An image from the exhibition shows Louise Bourgeois working on Sleep II in Italy in 1967.

Click Here to Read:  Pictures from this Exhibition on the guardian.co.uk website.  

 

Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed

Sunday, March 11th, 2012

Click Here to Read: Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed Until Sun May 27 at the Freud Museum London on the Time Out Worldwide website.

The Dangerous Obsession’, 2003, by Louise Bourgeois

Not a Fairy Tale.

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Click Here to Read: Not a Fairy Tale. Children’s book illustrator Tom Seidmann-Freud—Sigmund Freud’s niece—led a short and tragic life, but her surreal, whimsical art endures By Marjorie Ingall on the Tablet website on February 28, 2012.

An illustration by Tom Seidmann-Freud from Die Fischreise (The Fish’s Journey, 1923