Category: Art

Dachau Album Project
By Categories: Art, Books

In light of the persistence of intolerance and genocide around the world today, the Dachau Album Project has an extraordinary opportunity to have a global impact now. Inspired by the Dachau Album, the mission of the Arnold Unger Foundation for Remembrance, Inc., a 501(c)3 public charity, is to remind the world of the destruction caused by religious, social and political intolerance through educational programs, exhibitions, a documentary film and community outreach.

Background
The Dachau Album is a newly discovered Holocaust artifact that was brought to the United States by Arnold Unger, a Polish teenage Jewish survivor of multiple camps, including the infamous Dachau Concentration Camp. It has within it thirty hand drawn Continue reading Dachau Album Project

The Making of Modigliani
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Click Here to Read:  The Making of Modigliani: A new exhibition of rarely seen works by the Italian artist offers a fascinating insight into the origins of his extraordinary style in the by Paul Levy in Wall Street Journal on April 9, 2015.

“Dr. François Brabander,” 1918 ESTORICK COLLECTION

Finding Ourselves in the Selves of Others: Deepening Artistic Connections
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Finding Ourselves in the Selves of Others:
Deepening Artistic Connections
Friday, April 24, 2015
6 pm – 8:30 pm

A workshop with creativity experts Ani Buk (psychoanalyst and art therapist) and Craig Haen (psychotherapist and drama therapist).

This experiential workshop is designed for artists, psychotherapists, and anyone interested in using imaginative techniques to connect with the artwork of others as a catalyst for a deeper connection with themselves. Recent neuroscience research on the mirror Continue reading Finding Ourselves in the Selves of Others: Deepening Artistic Connections

Life Lines: For an artist with amnesia, the world takes place through her pencil
By Categories: Art, Science News

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Click Here to Read: Life Lines: For an artist with amnesia, the world takes place through her pencil by Daniel Zalewski in The New Yorker in March 30, 2015.

A virus essentially obliterated Lonni Sue Johnson’s hippocampus, and she can no longer recall what happened five minutes earlier. Her life has become an endless series of jump cuts.CREDITPHOTOGRAPHS BY PHILLIP TOLEDANO