PJ Grisar is a Forward culture reporter. He can be reached at [email protected] and @pjgrisar on Twitter.
PJ Grisar
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Culture Buried For Decades, These Roman Coins Might Identify Forgotten Victims Of The Holocaust
This February, homeowners in Keszthely, Hungary were working on renovations when they stumbled on a potentially historic find. While digging a hole in their cellar, the building owners discovered five sealed glass jars containing 2,800 gold and silver coins, many of them dating back to the Roman Empire. The question of to whom the coins…
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Culture Ida Wyman, Trailblazing Street And Magazine Photographer, Dies At 93
Ida Wyman, whose keen-eyed photography captured both ordinary and larger-than-life subjects, died on July 13 in Fitchburg, Wisconsin. She was 93. Her death was reported by Monroe Galleries in Sante Fe, New Mexico, which represents Wyman’s work. Wyman was a trailblazing street and documentary photographer for Life and Look magazines who approached her craft with…
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Culture Updated: Artists Abandon Whitney Biennial Over Board Member’s Alleged Ties To IDF Violence In Gaza
Update, July 22, 12:17 p.m.: This version of the story includes news of additional withdrawals and new research suggesting one of Kanders’s businesses may have provided bullets used by the IDF during the 2018 Gaza protests. Eight artists have requested the removal of their work from the Whitney Biennial – a historic and often career-making…
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Culture 4 Artists Withdraw From The Whitney Biennial Over Controversial Board Member
Four artists have requested the removal of their work from the Whitney Biennial – a historic and often career-making exhibition of contemporary art – citing their objection to military and police hardware entrepreneur Warren B. Kanders’s position as one of the five vice chairs of the Whitney Museum’s board. “We respectfully ask you to withdraw…
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Culture Could The ‘Cats’ Movie Design Be Inspired By Chagall’s Creepy Kittens?
To paraphrase the blockbuster musical “Cats,” Jellicles can and Jellicles do. But should they have? A trailer for “Cats” the movie, director Tom Hooper’s latest cinematic vivisection of a popular musical, was unleashed upon an innocent public July 18. It is notable for its familiar Andrew Lloyd Webber score, A-List talent and its Doctor Moreau-esque…
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Theater Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor And Yiddish Theater Scion, To Receive Kennedy Center Honor
The Kennedy Center Honors announced July 18 that it would recognize a member of Yiddish Theater royalty. Michael Tilson Thomas, the longtime music director of the San Francisco Symphony and an 11-time Grammy winner, will receive the prestigious award at a ceremony to be broadcast December 15. Thomas is a veteran maestro, pianist and composer…
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Culture Seth And Mark Rogen To Be Honored At Workmen’s Circle Benefit
This year’s Workmen’s Circle benefit will be a father-son affair. On July 18, the Workmen’s Circle, the historic Jewish social justice group, announced it would be honoring non-profit professional Mark Rogen and his son, actor Seth Rogen, with the organization’s Generation to Generation Activism Award. “From the moment we met Mark and Seth Rogen, we…
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Culture Louvre Becomes First Museum To Remove Sackler Name Amid Opioid Lawsuits
The Louvre Museum in Paris took a bold step in an ongoing art world controversy by removing the name of the Sackler family from a gallery that members of the family, the majority owners of Purdue Pharma, helped to fund. The Louvre is the first major museum to make such a move. The Sacklers have…
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