lecture

Apr 15, 2025

Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann (1895-1990)
Presentation by Carey Mack Weber, Fairfield (CT),
followed by a conversation with Barbara Rosenberg Loss

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Presentation by Carey Mack Weber, Fairfield (CT),
followed by a conversation with Barbara Rosenberg Loss

Presentation by Carey Mack Weber, Curator and Director, Fairfield University Art Museum, followed by a conversation with Fleischmann’s cousin, Barbara Rosenberg Loss. Introductory remarks by Stephanie Buhmann, PhD, Head of Visual Arts, Architecture and Design at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York. Image above: Trude Fleischmann, Sandra and Barbara with Golden Heart Necklaces, 1951, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of Barbara Rosenberg Loss. © Trude Fleischmann After opening her own studio in Vienna at the age of just 25, Trude Fleischmann (1895-1990) had great success there in the 1920s and 30s photographing artists, dancers, actors, and other key cultural figures of the era. When the Nazis invaded during the Anschluss in 1938, she fled first [...]

Jan 1, 2020

ZOOM EVENT
Ori Z. Soltes
Symbols of Faith:
Art in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim Traditions

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Ori Z. Soltes
Symbols of Faith:
Art in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim Traditions

March 23, 2020 12:00-1:30pm ZOOM EVENT ACCESS INFO AFTER TICKET PURCHASE T 212.415.5500 Ori Z. Soltes Symbols of Faith: Art in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim Traditions This lavishly illustrated talk will explore how symbols—numbers, colors, geometric forms, gestures, and figures—are used in convergent and divergent ways in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim visual art; how so many of them derive from earlier imagery in pagan antiquity; and how they continue to be useful and relevant in the art of the modern secular world.