Category: Art

  • A Joan Mitchell Painting in The Rockefeller University Collection

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    By Bernie Langs I hold the opinion that Abstract Expressionism was the last great movement in the history of painting. This school, or style, emerged in America (and centered in New York) after World War II, and its many master artists would include the likes of Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko,…

  • Memorable Music at the Cloisters

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    By Susan Russo In Fort Tryon Park, overlooking the Hudson River in uptown Manhattan, through December 8th, an extraordinary sound installation is being presented at the Cloisters, a branch of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, which houses rare and beautiful medieval treasures. Recorded by the Canadian-born artist Janet Cardiff, The Salisbury Cathedral Choir in…

  • Culture Corner A Visit to the Musée national du Moyen Âge (Paris)

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    By Bernie Langs By roundabout way of introducing this museum review, there is a funny scene in Woody Allen’s film comedy Midnight in Paris when, after having visited the Rodin Museum accompanied by a know-it-all art history buff, Owen Wilson returns there alone and asks the docent (Carla Bruni) if she remembers him from the…

  • For Your Consideration– Best Picture Check-In Edition

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    By Jim Keller I dare not take a stab at the ever-changing supporting actor categories when several of the films that could very well give us our nominees haven’t been seen, so stay-tuned to fyc next month when I’ll offer my thoughts on the Best Supporting Actor and Actress categories and conclude the four part…

  • Life on a Roll

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    September 2013

  • Culture Corner: A Visit to the National Gallery (London)

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    By Bernie Langs I sometimes joke that the value of world currency should not be pegged to the dollar or to gold but to something truly valuable: paintings, drawings, and sculpture. And the arts of greatest value, in my opinion, are those from the Medieval and Renaissance periods. What, one may wonder, is the basis…

  • Life on a Roll

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    All photos contributed by Elodie Pauwels, http://elodiepphoto.wordpress.com July/August 2013

  • For Your Consideration—Cannes Edition

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    by Jim Keller In this installment, For Your Consideration kicks off the 2013 Oscar season with a look at the films to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. This year’s festival, overseen by Jury President Steven Spielberg, will open on May 15with Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, which will screen out of competition.As I’ve stated…

  • Culture Desk Exhibition and Book Review The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century China (at The Asia Society through June 2, 2013) Confucius: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean (translated with notes by James Legge)

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    by Bernie Langs When reading certain philosophers that are difficult to understand, those of us who were never formerly trained as students of the genre often ask, “Why am I putting myself through this?” But in the case of reading Confucius, I know why I put myself through the hard task of reading his works.…

  • RU Art—Architecture Edition

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    by Carly Gelfond For years, every morning on my way to work, as I hurried along the white marble pathway leading from the driveway to the buildings on the North end of The Rockefeller University’s campus, I stared uncomprehendingly at the exterior of the long, low building, formally known as Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Hall. What…