Helena Rubinstein by Paul César Helleu, image via wikicommons Beauty is power and Madame Helena Rubinstein knew just what she was dispensing. Like all enchantments, beauty stirs up passions, its secrets can emancipate or enslave. Like power, beauty can be corrupting or creative; in the hands of an alchemist like Madame, it might even be…
Left: Lee Krasner with Stop and Go, c. 1949 (detail). Photographer unknown. © 2014 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Right: Norman Lewis, n. d. Photographer unknown. From the Willard Gallery Archives. Collection of Kenkeleba House. Art © The Estate of Norman W. Lewis, Courtesy of Iandor Fine Arts, New Jersey…
Getty Images The United States government still really wants to arrest director Roman Polanski — and what better place to catch him than the Polish Jewish history museum? Polanski, who was arrested (but never sentenced) for sexually assaulting a 13-year old girl in 1977, was attending the grand opening of Museum of the History of…
Michael Harlan Turkell As a kid growing up on New York’s Upper East Side, I had appetizing envy. My West Side friends had Zabar’s, Murray’s Sturgeon Shop, and Barney Greengrass. Downtown, of course, there was Russ & Daughters. Sure, there were a few Jewish delis like P.J. Bernstein’s, and eventually fancier shops like Sable’s, but…
The Jewish Museum of Belgium will reopen fully to the public four months after four people were killed in a shooting attack there. The Brussels museum in a statement on its website said it will reopen on Sept. 14 as part of the European Day of Jewish Culture. The European Association for the Preservation and…
Defining Bang on a Can is hard. Founded in 1987 by composers David Lang, Michael Gordon, and Julia Wolfe, it is a musical collective made up of composers and musicians dedicated to performing, producing, and commissioning new music that is innovative in some way. Among their most prominent projects is the annual Bang on a…
A French court on Thursday approved the extradition to Belgium of the French suspect in a May 24 shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels that left four people dead. Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, has been held in police custody on anti-terror laws on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and possession of weapons in relation to…
Berlin’s Jewish museum has selected as its new leader a non-Jewish scholar of Jewish studies. Peter Schafer, a German academic who had previously led Princeton University‘s Judaic studies program, will take the reins of the Jewish Museum Berlin as of September 1, according to an announcement made Friday. He will succeed W. Michael Blumenthal, a…
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