Click Here to Read: Freedom and Art by Charles Rosen in New York Review of Bnoks, May 10, 2012 Issue.
The Metropolitan Opera’s 1991 production of The Magic Flute, with sets by David Hockney.
Category: Art
3,000 Ancient Buddhas Unearthed in China
Matisse was a neuroscientist
Tapping Psychic Undercurrents: ‘The Spirit Level,’ Group Show
Click Here to Read: Tapping Psychic Undercurrents: ‘The Spirit Level,’ Group Show at Gladstone Gallery, Chelsea By K by Karen Rosenberg in the New York Times on April 12, 2012.
An installation view showing, from far left on the floor, “Wall Cascade,” a fabric work by Sam Gilliam; “The Blind Leading the Blind,” sculptures by Peter Buggenhout; and, displayed on the wall, “Untitled,” by Joe Bradley, at the Gladstone Gallery.
Analysing Louise Bourgeois: art, therapy and Freud.
Click Here to Read: Analysing Louise Bourgeois: art, therapy and Freud. Louise Bourgeois was in therapy for more than 30 years and wrote an essay on ‘Freud’s Toys’. The Freud museum in London has a display of her work and recently unearthed writings about her analysis by Christopher Turner on the guardian.co.uk website on April 6, 2012.
Louise Bourgeois working on Sleep II in Italy, 1967,
Nobel Winner Eric Kandel: ‘The Age of Insight,’ Memory, the Holocaust, and the Art of Vienna
Eavesdropping on Dreams by Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg
Click Here to Read: Flyer for Eavesdropping on Dreams and link to order tickets.
EAVESDROPPING ON DREAMS–A NEW PLAY ABOUT THE TRANS-GENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF THE HOLOCAUST TRAUMA
BY RIVKA BEKERMAN-GREENBERG, PH.D
Lynn Cohen and Jake Robards set to headline the cast of the world premiere of Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg’s EAVESDROPPING ON DREAMS, presented Off-Broadway by Barefoot Theatre Company with previews beginning April 20 prior to an official press opening of Sunday April 29 at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre (38 Commerce Street) in Manhattan. Ronald Cohen will direct.
EAVESDROPPING ON DREAMS is Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg’s haunting play about three generations of women in one family and their struggles with coming to terms with the aftermath of the Holocaust. Shaina Eberkohn, a 25 Continue reading Eavesdropping on Dreams by Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg
Filling in the painful spaces by Ilany Kogan
Filling in the painful spaces
N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor
Ilany Kogan, writes about holes: voids, memory-erased spaces of open-mouthed silent screams. She presents cases of children or grandchildren of those who survived the Holocaust, documenting how their psychic holes are populated, filled in with unconscious fantasies, enacted in their lives.
Her work, as you will read here or in her books, is pains-taking: she absorbs the pains, metabolizes them, and
Figure 2 Berlin Jewish Museum Memory Void Continue reading Filling in the painful spaces by Ilany Kogan
Sailors, psychoanalysis and star anise
Giant spider moves into Freud’s garden for Louise Bourgeois exhibition
Click Here to Read: Giant spider moves into Freud’s garden for Louise Bourgeois exhibition. Freud Museum show was inspired by discovery from a cache of the artist’s writing that she had undergone psychoanalysis
Louise Bourgeois at the Freud Museum – in pictures by Alex Needham on the guardian.co.uk website on March 7, 2012.
An image from the exhibition shows Louise Bourgeois working on Sleep II in Italy in 1967.
Click Here to Read: Pictures from this Exhibition on the guardian.co.uk website.