Archive for the 'Art' Category

Clinical Consultation by WCSPP

Saturday, June 15th, 2013

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Click Here to Read:  Clinical Consultation by WCSPP.

This Week at YIVO: “Rise Up! Revolution or Class Mobility”

Sunday, June 9th, 2013

YIVO2THURSDAY 13 JUNE 2013 | 6:30pm
Rise Up! Revolution or Class Mobility: Anglo-Yiddish Poems and Songs as Agents of Political Debate 1884-1914

Presented by Vivi Lachs (University of London)
Moderated by Itzik Gottesman (Associate Editor, Forward – Yiddish Edition)
RUTH GAY SEMINAR IN JEWISH STUDIES

Admission: Free (more…)

From Shylock to Rothschild

Monday, June 3rd, 2013

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Click Here to Read: From Shylcok to Rothschild: Liliane Weissberg examines Jews, money, and clichés in new exhibition by Loraine Terrell on the Penn Arts and Sciences website in June 2013.

Their Own Petard ‘Forty-One False Starts’

Tuesday, May 28th, 2013

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Click Here to Read: Their Own Petard, Review of  ‘Forty-One False Starts,’ by Janet Malcolm Reviewed By Adam Kirsch in The New York Times on May 23, 2013.

Lisa Yuskavage – Upstaging Masculinity and Speaking With the Power of Pretty

Tuesday, May 28th, 2013

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Click Here to Read:  Lisa Yuskavage – Upstaging Masculinity and Speaking With the Power of Pretty. Kristeva, Lacan and an Aside That Changes Everything by Xavier Lopez Jr on the Seatttle PI blog on May 26, 2013,

Lisa Yuskavage:  Teresa and Lauren, oil on linen, 2008.

Painting through the power of thought enabled by scientists

Monday, May 27th, 2013

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Click Here to Read: Painting through the power of thought enabled by scientists by Richard Gray on the Telegraph website on May 25, 2013.

Unmasking the agony: Combat troops turn to art therapy

Monday, May 27th, 2013

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Click Here to Read: Unmasking the agony: Combat troops turn to art therapy By Bill Briggs on NBC News website on May 26, 2013.

For soldiers suffering from traumatic brain injury and the psychological effects of war, a Department of Defense art therapy program hopes to provide relief.

Museum Hours and The Artist and the Model

Sunday, May 26th, 2013

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Click Here to Read: Museum Hours and The Artist and the Model: In defense of art and the artistic personality By David Walsh on world Socialist Web Site on May 24, 2013.

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Should Artists Fear Psychoanalysis?

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

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Click Here to Read:  Should Artists Fear  Psychoanalysis? by Robert Frashure in Psychology Tomorrow in the May 2013 Issue.

This One’s a Kippah: New York’s Idiosyncratic Jewish Renewal

Friday, May 17th, 2013

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Click Here to Read:  This One’s a Kippah: New York’s Idiosyncratic Jewish Renewal An auction of Judaica and passionate recitation of Yiddish poetry By Marty Peretz  in The New York Observer  on May 14, 2013.

The Mishneh Torah

 

Letters to Afar at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Thursday, May 16th, 2013

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Click Here to Read: Letters to Afar at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews May 18 – September 30, 2013.

Click Here to Read: Polish Museum Conjures Jewish Life Before the Holocaust. on the Speakeasy Blog on the Wall Street Journal on May 19, 2013.

DSM-V Exhibit

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013

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Curated by David Rimanelli
Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm
The Future Moynihan Station
421 8th Avenue (Entrance on 31st Street)
New York, NY 10199

Vito Schnabel is pleased to present the uniquely situated and timely new exhibition, DSM-V, curated by distinguished art critic David Rimanelli. With over three dozen works by artists from Picasso, Warhol, and Manzoni to Cecily Brown, Bjarne Melgaard, and George Condo, the show brings together an exceptional collection of artworks from mid-century to the present day by artists whose projects raise questions about the norms of conventional perception and behavior. (more…)

Floating Worlds and Future Cities at YIVO

Sunday, April 21st, 2013

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SUNDAY 21 APRIL 2013 | 3:00PM
Floating Worlds and Future Cities: The Genius of Lazar Khidekel, Suprematism, and the Russian Avant-Garde
Constantin Boym, Jonathan Brent, Ginés Garrido, Benjamin Harshav, Mark Khidekel, Regina Khidekel, Maria Kokkori
SYMPOSIUM, EXHIBITION OPENING & RECEPTION

Admission: Free
RSVP Required: www.yivo.org/reservations

IMAGE: Lazar Khidekel Suprematist World, 1922 Colored pencil, India ink and crayon, 6 5/8 x 5 1/2 in Mark, Regina and Roman Khidekel Collection (more…)

Polish Museum Repairs a Tie to a Jewish Past

Friday, April 19th, 2013

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Click Here to Read:   Polish Museum Repairs a Tie to a Jewish Past By Nicholas Kulish in The New York Times on April 18, 2013.

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, an Auschwitz survivor, right, at the new Jewish museum in Warsaw.

What the Brain Can Tell Us About Art

Saturday, April 13th, 2013

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Click Here to Read:  What the Brain Can Tell Us About Art By Eric R. Kandel in The New York Times on April 12, 2013.

Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu

Thursday, April 11th, 2013

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Click Here to Read: Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu March 16–June 30, 2013 at the Oakland Museum of Art of CA.

Architecture as Potential Space at NYU Postdoc

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013

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London’s date with the fun side of brain science

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

CHANGING-MINDSLondonShowClick Here to Read: London’s date with the fun side of brain science by Sandhya Sekar and Liz Else on the Culture Lab website on April 8, 2013.

Changing Minds by Chloe Ride of Winchester School of Art, depicting the confusion a person with Alzheimer’s may feel (Image: Russell Sach)

The Hanover Esther Scroll at Leo Baeck Institute and The Center for Jewish History

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

 

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CJH EVENT CALENDAR
BROWSE EVENTSPAST EVENTSFULL VIEW
04172013
700pm
The Hanover Esther Scroll, 1746 – a Masterpiece of Jewish Scribal Art Rediscovered

 

Panel Discussion (more…)

Berlin Exhibition on Judaism Hits a Nerve

Monday, April 8th, 2013

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Click Here to Read: Berlin Exhibition on Judaism Hits a Nerve By Nicholas Kulish in The New York Times on  April 4, 2013.

Bill Glucroft spent part of Thursday as a living exhibit at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Some find that part of the show “The Whole Truth” distasteful