Hedda Sterne Foundation
Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression
More Surreal Than Surrealism:
Hedda Sterne’s Emigration
1014 - space for ideas
1014 5th Avenue, New York, New York, NY, United States
Watch the event video HERE. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Conversation featuring Dr. Sarah Eckhardt, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, VA and Shaina Larrivee, Director of The Hedda Sterne Foundation in New York Moderated by Rachel Stern, Director of the Fritz Ascher Society in New York Hedda Sterne (1910-2011) was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1910 and came of age as an artist in the midst of the Dada and Surrealist movements in Bucharest and Paris. In 1941 she narrowly escaped the Bucharest Pogrom and was one of the fortunate few who managed to leave Europe for the United States [...]
Steinberg before STEINBERG
Lecture by Mario Tedeschini Lalli, Rome (Italy)
ONLINE
VA, United States
In this presentation Mario Tedeschini Lalli, Italian journalist and scholar of 20th century history, tells the story of Saul Steinberg, before he became STEINBERG, the majuscules with which he signed his name to the art most people know, using some of his public art, some of his clandestine art, some of his personal art and - yes – some of his top secret art. Image above: Saul Steinberg, Seaside, 1941. © The Saul Steinberg Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York The art of Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) was arguably one of the most recognizable for the US public from the mid-1940s until his death in 1999. Much of Steinberg’s best-known work appeared in magazines such as [...]
