Past Events

Past EventsDave2023-01-26T22:09:49-05:00

Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire
and the Role of the Clown
in the Arts
March 10, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Jussuf Prince of Thebes –
Re-constructing the life and work of a forgotten talent from Safed
Featuring Dorothea Schöne, Berlin (Germany)
March 2, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Identity and Migration:
Artists and Composers who Fled Persecution
Sheen Center for Thought & Culture, New York
February 27, 2022 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Boris Lurie:
Searching for Truth in Holocaust Images
Featuring Eckhart Gillen, PhD, Berlin (Germany)
February 1, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
#EVERYNAMECOUNTS Challenge
Partnership with Arolsen Archives and Yad Vashem
January 26, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Pencil and the Sword.
How Lily Renée (1921–2022)
Put her Art to Work Against the Nazis
Featuring Sabine Apostolo and Michael Freund
Jewish Museum Vienna, Austria
January 5, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
CONFERENCE
Artists Migrating to the United States, In and Beyond the Nazi Period
FEATURING Rebecca Erbelding, PhD,
Katya Grokhovsky, and Ori Z Soltes, PhD
December 15, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Fritz Ascher (1893-1970):
Coming back to Life
Featuring Karen Wilkin and Elizabeth Berkowitz, PhD
December 8, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
CONFERENCE: Identity and the Arts
FEATURING Libby Copeland, Ori Z Soltes
Deborah Tannen and Oksana Yakushko
December 1, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Lily Renée (1921-2022):
From Refugee to Renown
Featuring Trina Robbins, Adrienne Gruben and David Armstrong
November 17, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Cartoon Crusader Comes to America:
Arthur Szyk’s Battle against the Nazis in the New World
Featuring Steven Luckert and Irvin Ungar
November 10, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
From Sea to Shining Sea:
Anni Albers in America (1899–1994)
Featuring Laura Muir and Ori Z. Soltes, PhD
November 3, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Remembering Friedel:
An Intimate View of Friedel Dzubas (1915-1994)
Featuring Karen Wilkin and Sandi Slone
October 27, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Rudi Lesser (1902–1988):
The Forgotten and Rediscovered Artist
Featuring Lillie Johnson Edwards, PhD and Ori Z. Soltes, PhD
October 20, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Eva Hesse (1936–1970): Returning to the Source?
Featuring Eva’s sister Helen Charash and Ori Z. Soltes, PhD
October 13, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Through the Prism of Time:
John H. Less (1923-2011)
and His Visual Impressions of
Holocaust Refuge in Shanghai
October 6, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Memory, Empathy and Image:
The Art of Luise Schröder (Germany)
and Kitra Cahana (Canada)
September 13, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Sculpting the Light:
Avant-Garde to Auschwitz and Beyond.
Moissey Kogan (1879-1943)
Lecture by Helen Shiner, Oxford (UK)
August 4, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
New Frontiers of Provenance Research:
The Mosse Art Research Initiative (MARI)
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Meike Hoffmann, Berlin (Germany)
July 21, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Becoming Gustav Metzger:
Uncovering the Early Years (1945-1959)
Lecture by Nicola Baird, London (UK)
July 7, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm