Jan Lisa Huttner
By Jan Lisa Huttner
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News Everybody’s Fiddler
The Marc Chagall retrospective currently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art includes some of the artist’s most arresting pieces, from the flying lovers in “Above the Town” to the “White Crucifixion” (Jesus is wearing a tallis!) to Moses leading his people in “The Crossing of the Red Sea.” And yet the most commanding…
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News Frida & Diego & Jacques & Natasha
Interest in the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has been riding a wave propelled by Julie Taymor’s biographical film “Frida,” which won a surprise victory on Oscar night. That interest has swelled attendance at a traveling national exhibit titled “Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection.” On May 24,…
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