"Unstill Life": Gabrielle Selz Portrays Coming of Age in the World of Art
on Tuesday, September 23, 2014
"Art was their tea leaves, their road map and their destination," Gabrielle Selz says of her parents in Unstill Life: A Daughter's Memoir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction. Given that her father is Peter Selz, who served as chief curator of ...
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Curator Mason Klein on the Secret Ingredients of "Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Power"
on Thursday, September 18, 2014
"Beauty is Power," a slogan lifted from the 1904 launch of Helena Rubinstein's Crème Valaze product line, is a tidy packaging of the late cosmetics magnate and collector's philosophy. It also informs the title of The Jewish Museum's upcoming ...
Israel Horovitz Takes Up with "My Old Lady"
on Wednesday, September 17, 2014
With 70 stage plays under his belt, Israel Horovitz is no stranger to the human condition. His debut effort in writing and directing a film, My Old Lady, shows that his dramatic flair isn't limited to theater. Adapted from his 2002 play of the same ...
Curator Norman L. Kleeblatt Talks "From the Margins: Lee Krasner & Norman Lewis: 1945-1952"
on Monday, September 15, 2014
For a movement excited by rebellion, Abstract Expressionism yielded to some curious inhibitions. White male artists had a leg up, whereas those who strayed from the norm were often overlooked by the era's tastemakers.
Thanks to the Jewish Museum, ...
"The Green Prince": A Conversation with Former Operative Mosab Hassan Yousef and Director Nadav Schirman
on Monday, September 15, 2014
There are spies who come in from the cold and others who swap one kind of heat for another. One such fevered soul is Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas honcho Sheikh Hassan Yousef who spied for Israel’s Shin Bet for more than a decade. ...
