VIDEO – Culture Shock 1913 – Touring MoMA for Masterpieces from 1913

Click here to read and watch “Culture Shock 1913 – Touring MoMA for Masterpieces from 191” by Jennifer Hsu from WNYC.com on November 27, 2012.

WNYC’s Sara Fishko gets a private tour of some of the paintings and sculptures from 1913 in MoMA’s collection, some on display and others unearthed from a storage closet. Her guide is Ann Temkin, the Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art.

Photography Friday: Anita Katz

“Giverney in the Bronx,” by Anita Katz.

Anita is a psychoanalyst in private paractice, and she has written numerous psychoanalytic papers. Her passions include  ballroom dancing and Argentine Tango, studying classical piano, and, of course, photography.

If you would like to have your photography considered for internationalpsychoanalysis.net’s Photography Friday, please send your jpegs to Joel Seligmann, the photography editor.

DEPTH OF FIELD: Thomas Struth’s way of seeing

 

Click here to read “DEPTH OF FIELD: Thomas Struth’s way of seeing” by Janet Malcolm from The New Yorker on September 26, 2011.

Thomas Struth’s large-scale portrait of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, taken at Windsor Castle, was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery in London, for an exhibition of paintings and photographs of the Queen commemorating her Diamond Jubilee, next year. When Struth was approached, he wondered, “Would I be able to say something new about people like this?”

Pictures at a (Klimt) Exhibition

Click here to read “Music at an Exhibition: Gustav Klimt’s Drawings at the Getty Museum” by Lynne Oliva, Psy.D.

Lynne Oliva, a psychoanalyst in LA takes us on a Klimt tour at the Getty exhibition, which closed recently.  She gives a personal sense of the musicality she felt moving through these pictures at an exhibition.

Those of us in NYC or who visit can get the flavor of Klimt’s drawings at the Neuegalarie.

N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Three Gorgons (1901), Albertina Museum, Vienna

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Studies for Goldfish (1901), J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Interview with Eric Kandel

Click Here to Read: Interview with Eric Kandel: ‘I See Psychoanalysis, Art and Biology Coming together, Interview conducted by Johann Grolle, on the Speigel Online International Website on October 11, 2012.  

Eric Kandel is considered one of the world’s most important neuroscientists. He recently published a book about the creative power of Vienna, the city of his birth. In an interview, he discusses the demonic side of man and the postcoital perspectives offered in Gustav Klimt’s paintings.