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EuropeAugust 16, 2021
Art and Exile in the Third Republic
James McAuley’s The House of Fragile Things examines the travails of a circle of Jewish art collectors, tracing a history of betrayal and dispossession.
Hannah Stamler
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Books and IdeasFebruary 26, 2020
WWII’s Refugee Academics and the Myth of a Welcoming American Academy
Laurel Leff’s Well Worth Saving looks at the lives of Jewish professors who sought asylum in the United States and were denied entry.
Hannah Stamler
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Fine ArtJuly 11, 2019
Sara Cwynar’s Photoshop Proletariat
Her photos and videos capture visual culture and fashion’s messy means of production.
Hannah Stamler
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Video ArtJune 17, 2019
Gretchen Bender’s Video Art Predicted the Bleak Future of Mass Media
A retrospective of her art looks at the Pandora’s box television unleashed and how we continue to reckon with the effects of an unrelenting, 24/7 visual culture.
Hannah Stamler
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Fine ArtDecember 27, 2018
How Curators Are Finding the Climate in Art History
The recent “Nature’s Nation” exhibition locates the hidden ecological and environmental roots of American art.
Hannah Stamler