Monthly Archives: March 2017

Kandinsky Lines & Angel (Improvisation 28)

Posted on March 18, 2017 by zjb

Representing more of the “spiritual in art” is Kandinsky’s Improvisation 28 (Second Version) (1912) now on view at Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim. Its apocalypse is in a “storm from paradise” kind of mode. In the artist’s composition theory, it is the … Continue reading →

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Kandinsky Circles (At the Guggenheim)

Posted on March 17, 2017 by zjb

These things have names. They were among the first paintings in the Kandinsky blast that open the new show at the Guggenheim, introducing the public to the founding vision of what was once called the Museum of Non-Objective Painting. Kandinsky’s … Continue reading →

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Jews, Germans, Women and the Spiritual in Art in America (Creating a Modern Guggenheim)

Posted on March 16, 2017 by zjb

They won’t do the ethnic tagging at the Guggenheim, but I will. Why now, Visionaries: Creating A  Modern Guggenheim, this big exhibition of the museum’s holdings organized to show the history of its founding visionaries and mission. Originally created as … Continue reading →

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Israel’s Greatest Victory: 1967 and the End of the Zionist Project (Menachem Lorberbaum at Syracuse University) (March 28)

Posted on March 15, 2017 by zjb
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What Linda Sarsour Actually Seems to Have Said about Feminism & Zionism

Posted on March 14, 2017 by zjb

Chaya Halberstam has pointed this out on FB, but I want to raise it here. An article in the Times of Israel states that, according to Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour, feminism and Zionism “do not go together.” She says no … Continue reading →

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Marilyn Braiterman Rare Books at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair

Posted on March 13, 2017 by zjb

As is her wont, Marilyn Braiterman Rare Books made her appearance this year at the New York Antiquarian Book Fare. It’s hard to get one’s mind around the total elegance of display and the far reach in taste. The Cubies … Continue reading →

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(With and Against Israel) I Stand With and Against BDS

Posted on March 13, 2017 by zjb

With BDS and the others with whom I count myself, I am not going to support the state, any state, including Israel, forbidding entry to people on the basis of ideological and political litmus tests. With BDS and others, I … Continue reading →

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Scenes from the New York Antiquarian Book Fair

Posted on March 12, 2017 by zjb

There’s nothing “antiquarian” about the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, which closed its doors today. All the Nazi and USSR materials were where you can always find them, at Eric Chaim Kline.

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On Not Teaching Night & Fog to University Students Who Don’t Have Time (For the Holocaust)

Posted on March 10, 2017 by zjb

Something very strange happened in my American Judaism class this past week. At the start of the semester in relation to I forget what I got into an argument with my students (a good natured one I’d like to think) … Continue reading →

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Israel Travel Ban (Jewish Studies Letter of Protest)

Posted on March 8, 2017 by zjb

Jewish Studies colleagues can consider signing this statement,  which you can find here, in opposition to the Israel travel plan barring supporters of BDS and settlement boycotts from entering the country. To the best of my knowledge, the Jewish Studies professoriate … Continue reading →

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