Street Art: NYC and Chicago

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tara Donovan’s plastic construction at Lever House         Franz West: The Ego and the Id

Click Here to Read: Art: Well-Behaved Street-Corner Sculpture by Ken Johnson in the New York Times on July 23rd, 2009.

Click Here To Read: Doris C. Freedman Plaza in Central Park on July 15, 2009 – March 2010 on the Public Art Fund Website.

Click  Here to Read: Psychoanalysis Hits the Streets: A letter to the New York Times by Mark Smaller on July 24. 2009.

Sessions the Musical: Theatrical Therapy

Click Here To Read: A review of Sessions: The Musical at the Algonquin Theatre in Manhattan. 

Click Here To Read:  Sessions: The Musical’s website

We were quite pleasantly surprised by this show’s mixture of humor, pathos, music, and talent.  Fifteen minutes in, the storylines picked up, the cases were involving, and a play which had seemed trite at first turned out to be quite human and satisfying–Lawrence and Tamar Schwartz

The New Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago

Click Here To Read:  Art Review: A Grand and Intimate Modern Art Trove by By Roberta Smith in the New York Times on May 13, 2009.

A work by Cy Twombly at the new Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago.

 

Click Here To Read: Architecture Review: Renzo Piano Embraces Chicago by By Nicolai Ouroussoff in the New York Times on May 13, 2009

 The new wing of the Art Institute of Chicago is the closest Renzo Piano has come in at least a decade to achieving a near-classical ideal.

Jonathan Torgovnik, Photographer

Jonathan Torgovnik’s (b. 1969, Israel) photographs have been widely exhibited and published in numerous international publications, including Newsweek, Aperture, GEO, Sunday Times Magazine, and Stern, among others. He has been a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine since 2005, and is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography School in New York.
In 2007, Torgovnik won the National Portrait Gallery’s Photographic Portrait Prize for an image from Intended Consequences, his long term project on Rwandan women that were raped during the 1994 genocide and have a child as a result. Aperture Foundation just published the book of Intended Consequences.

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