Click Here to Read: The singularly Jewish tragedy of Maria Callas by Benjamin Ivry on the Forward website on June 28, 2021. |
Photo of Maria Callas from the television talk show Small World. The program was hosted by Edward R. Murrow. Image: CBS Television. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Category: Arts
A 51,000-year-old carved bone is one of the world’s oldest works of art, researchers say
Click Here To Read: A 51,000-year-old carved bone is one of the world’s oldest works of art, researchers say. The discovery highlights that Neanderthals were capable of symbolic thought — something once attributed only to our own species. By Tom Metcalfe on the NBC News weon July 5, 2021,
Megaloceros giganteus (Blumenbach, 1799) Irish elk skeleton from the Pleistocene (public display, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, USA). Image: James St. John PUblic Domain Via Wikimedia Commons.
A Haunted Patrimony
Click Here to Read:: Through their art collecting wealthy Jews staked a claim to being French, but the nation they loved savagely betrayed them by David A. Bell on the New York Review of Books website on July 1, 2021 issue.
Salon des Huet de l’Hôtel Moïse de Camondo. Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris (75008). Image: GO69 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Brown, and White: Thoughts on Psychoanalysis, the Blues, and Marginality
Click Here to Read: Black, Brown, and White: Thoughts on Psychoanalysis, the Blues, and Marginality by John S. Auerbach on the Counterpunch website on June 11, 2021.
Tommy Potter, Charlie Parker, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Duke Jordan in August 1947. Photograph Source: William P. Gottlieb.– Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.