Movies Monday: Off The Rails

Click Here to Read and View: Off The Rails Trailer on the Off The Rails Movie website.

Click Here to Read: Review of Off The Rails by Scott Jordan Harris on the RogerEbert.com website

Click Here to Read: Film Review: ‘Off the Rails’ by Dennis Harvey on the Variety Website on November 11, 2016.

Click Here to Read: ‘Off the Rails’: Film Review by John DeFore in The Hollywood Reporter website on May 31, 2016; Continue reading Movies Monday: Off The Rails

Women Artists: Their Bodies, Their Selves with Janice Lieberman and Danielle Knafo at IPTAR

IPTAR’s Arts and Society Committee invites you to: WOMEN ARTISTS: THEIR BODIES, THEIR SELVES, February 12, 2017, 4:00-7:00, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, 1651 Third Avenue, Suite 205

Dr. Janice Lieberman will present the works of a number of women artists who have worked to fight victimization and to use their own aggression in creative and constructive ways. Among those who have depicted violence against women or themselves are Artemisia Gentileschi, Frida Kahlo, Nan Goldin, Kiki Smith, Kara Walker and others. The tendency over the centuries to mask such violence in myth and beauty has evolved into the making of more realistic and raw depictions.

Dr. Danielle Knafo will examine the lives and works of ten pioneering female artists over the last century whose self-representational art challenged the cultural presuppositions and gender stereotypes of their time, while opening up Continue reading Women Artists: Their Bodies, Their Selves with Janice Lieberman and Danielle Knafo at IPTAR