Click Here to Read: Letters to Afar: An Installation by Peter Forgacs and the Kleimatics Sponsored by YIVO and the Museum of the City of New York at the Museum of the City of New York on October 20, 2014.
Category: Art
Alexander the Great: History’s Superstar
An open letter to President Bollinger and the board of trustees
Click Here to Read: An open letter to President Bollinger and the board of trustees By Sandra Leong and Kerry J. Sulkowics In the Columbia Spectator on October 2, 2014.
CARRY THAT WEIGHT | Emma Sulkowicz, CC ’15, has gained widespread attention for her performance art-protest, “Carry That Weight,” which seeks to raise awareness about sexual assault on campus.
YIVO News and Events
What does YIVO want for its birthday? Your ideas!
We’ll tell you a secret. In 2015, YIVO turns 90. Yes, it’s a big birthday, and we’re proud of our work through the years, including some of the exciting things we’ve been working on in just this last year: The Vilna Project, Letters to Afar, the YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland, and of course our Uriel Weinreich Summer Program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, along with two terrific public programming seasons. Continue reading YIVO News and Events
Upcoming Events Reminder: Stefan Zweig’s Impossible Exile and Facing History: Portraits from the LBI Art Collection
Tuesday, September 30, 2014, 6:30 PM | Panel Discussion
The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World
George Prochnik’s The Impossible Exile
Join us as as authors George Prochnik and Gideon Lewis-Kraus discuss Prochnik’s brilliant new biography of Stefan Zweig.
By the 1930s, Stefan Zweig had become the most widely translated living author in the world. His novels, short stories, and biographies were so compelling that they became instant best sellers. Zweig was also an intellectual and a lover of all the arts, high and low. Yet after Hitler’s rise to power, this celebrated writer who had dedicated so much energy to promoting international humanism plummeted, in a matter of a few years, into an increasingly isolated exile-from London to Bath to New York City, then Ossining, Rio, and finally Petrópolis-where, in 1942, in a cramped bungalow, he killed himself. Continue reading Upcoming Events Reminder: Stefan Zweig’s Impossible Exile and Facing History: Portraits from the LBI Art Collection
Letters to Afar: Oct 22, 2014 – Mar 22, 2015
Artist Diana Al-Hadid on Fate, Form, and Freud—and Her New Exhibition at the Secession in Vienna
Nations Called Lax in Returning Art Looted From Jews
Click Here to Read: Nations Called Lax in Returning Art Looted From Jews By Graham Bowley in The New York Times on September 10, 2014.
In 2011 United States officials seized Girolamo Romano’s “Christ Carrying the Cross Dragged by a Rogue,” pictured here in the Brogan Museum in Tallahassee, Fla., which has since closed for unrelated reasons. Steve Cannon Associated Press.
