This just in! “Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women” opens in Washington, DC on June 7!
Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women will open June 7, 2012 at Washington, DC’s Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, part of the JCC cultural complex. The show, which I co-curated, is inspired by a story I wrote for the Forward. We’ve had successful runs in NYC, San Francisco, and Toronto, with more cities planned for 2012-2013.
The Forward, North America’s leading Jewish news source, is sponsoring Graphic Details. Read about the show in the New York Daily News.
“Graphic Details” on The Jewish Channel
My show, Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women, got great coverage this week on The Jewish Channel, the national cable network. Starts at 8:20 in video clip. More.
“Their Parents Were Nazis”, Forward.com, May 24 2012
“Monika Hertwig remembers leaving a screening of Schindler’s List suffering from shock. Hertwig’s not a daughter of Holocaust survivors. She’s not even Jewish. Her connection to the film’s more insidious: The notorious Plaszow commander Amon Goeth, played by Ralph Fiennes in the film, was her father.” More
“Israeli Horror Comes to Life”, Forward.com, May 24 2012
“’THE STATE OF ISRAEL IS UNDER ATTACK,’ blares the headline in May’s Rue Morgue magazine. But the threat’s not coming from the usual suspects. This time, it’s zombies, serial killers and apocalyptic plagues that have the country on high alert.” More
“Q & A: Philip Kaufman on Martin Buber and His Cat”, Forward.com, May 23 2012
“Nearly a half-century after making his first film — the Hasidic-inspired ‘Goldstein’ — director Philip Kaufman is having a moment.” More
“Q&A: Taylor Mac on Fabulous Tenement Songs”, Forward.com, May 22, 2012
“Mac will premiere ‘Sleep Fast! We Need the Pillow!’, an exploration of Jewish popular music and “tenement songs” from 1900 to 1910. It’s one slice of Mac’s insanely ambitious ’24-hour History of Popular Music,’ in which he plans to sing 300 songs from different eras for 24 consecutive hours sometime next year.” More
“New York Court Rules on Kosher Law”, Forward.com, May 15 2012
“‘Kosher,’ it turns out, is kosher – at least in New York. That’s the ruling from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court, which has dismissed a lawsuit implying that labeling requirements of New York’s 2004 Kosher Law Protection Act interfered with religious freedom.” More
“Friday Film: Annette Insdorf on Philip Kaufman”, Forward.com, May 12 2012
“With the first book-length study of the impossible-to-categorize director, Annette Insdorf has nominated Philip Kaufman to the pantheon of cinema greats like Francois Truffaut and Krzysztof Kieslowski.” More
“Remembering ‘Price Is Right’ Creator Bob Stewart”, Forward.com, May 8 2012
“Until today, I had no idea that the show’s creator, Bob Stewart, was born Isidore Steinberg to Russian immigrants. But I should have figured that a show in which people obsess about the cost of goods would have come from a Jewish brain.” More
“Toronto may be Canada’s biggest city, but its attraction is its vibrant neighborhoods”, NY Daily News, May 6 2012
“Toronto’s done a great job of tooting its own horn as a ‘world-class city’ of expensive museums, glitzy new hotels, and glam festivals. But that’s not what brings me back to Canada’s biggest burg as often as I can get there. The real, juicy flavor of Toronto lies in its neighborhoods.” More
