Claudia Moscovici
22.06.2020
Adela Cojab Moadeb: Fighting BDS and anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses
In her article in the New York Post (December 14, 2019) about her fight against anti-Semitism on New York University’s campus, pro-Israel Jewish activist Adela Cojab Moadeb explains the [...]
15.06.2020
„The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank” by Willy Lindwer
The Diary of Anne Frank constitutes one of the most important legacies of the Holocaust. The journal documents the experiences of a young Jewish girl, her family and acquaintances while they hid [...]
08.06.2020
An artistic legacy from Bulgaria: Ivan Minekov and his daughter, Paola Minekov
The sculptor Ivan Minekov Ivan Minekov represents the rich and diverse tradition of Modernism in contemporary sculpture. Born in Bulgaria, he’s a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Nicolae [...]
01.06.2020
Zola champions Manet
Individualism, Autonomy and Originality in Art If any art collection can be said to have a profound impact upon the history of art and aesthetics, the paintings exhibited at the Salon de Refusés [...]
25.05.2020
Intoxication: Artistic Fame and the Magnetic Persona
No matter what they may say, few artists create art only for themselves. Just as few writers write only for themselves (unless they’re only writing in a journal, and even then, they may do it [...]
18.05.2020
The Sculptural Photography of Vadim Stein
Given his background, it’s not that surprising that Vadim Stein’s photography has a sculptural–even monumental–look to it. Born in Kiev, Ukraine, Stein studied sculpture restoration. He also [...]
11.05.2020
Panodyssey: A 21st Century International Culture Salon
When I started a Twitter account several years ago, it wasn’t difficult to find the phrase that best captures me: “Born in the wrong century, a would-be salonnière.” Ever since college, when I [...]
04.05.2020
Review of Răzvan Petrescu’s Rubato
Despite charting very unfamiliar territories in fiction, the writer Răzvan Petrescu is quite familiar—and famous—in his native country, Romania. A versatile and award-winning author, Petrescu is [...]
27.04.2020
Why We Love Books
How books are made, the process of publishing, who writes them and for what purpose has changed tremendously over time. But one thing remains the same: we still love to read books. Under whatever [...]
20.04.2020
The Dynamic Abstraction of Nicolas Longo
I don’t know if Nicolas Longo likes to be compared to other artists. Many artists don’t, yet nobody lives in a cultural vacuum. As an art historian and art critic, I try to describe the [...]
