“Is there a Jewish art?” Harold Rosenberg asked at New York’s Jewish Museum in 1966. “They build a Jewish Museum, then ask: ‘Is there a Jewish art?’ Jews!” (via Financial Times)
Archive for February 6th, 2009
Is There Such A Thing As Jewish Art?
Posted in Art & Artists, Jewish Life, Museums & Exhibitions, Religion on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Walker Evans, Postcard Collector
Posted in Collectors & Collecting, Ephemera, Museums & Exhibitions, Photography, Popular Culture on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“[Walker] Evans is foremost a giant of 20th-century photography, the instigator of a lean, elegant documentary style that was as unvarnished as it was ennobling. He immortalized gaunt sharecroppers, dilapidated plantations and bone-dry country stores in the South; worker housing and grimy factories in the industrial North; and (with a hidden camera) the unguarded expressions [...]
Travel Photo of the Day: Vienna, Austria
Posted in Europe, Foreign Travel, Photography on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gypsy mother braiding her daughter’s hair at Vienna’s popular Naschmarkt, May, 2007 (Full photo)
