HYPE: Chagall is Back!
Sep. 13th, 2013 09:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdelmonteBack at The Jewish Museum (where this is my fourth Chagall exhibition). But this time, we move away from the familiar paintings of his youth before WWI and from Paris between the wars. This is a Chagall in exile, fleeing the Nazis and coming to New York, haunted by the unfolding Holocaust, unhappy in America, and losing his beloved wife to an infection. His paintings take a turn towards the dark, never quite losing the magical realism of his youth but certainly going to places Chagall didn't go before, and didn't go again after the war.
If you want more info, here is a review in today's NY Times, and a feature story about Chagall as seen through the eyes of his granddaughters. (BTW, this is the first time in 20 years that we have received two stories in the Times on the same day.)
The show opens Sunday and runs through February 2. It's well worth a visit, though if you wait until November 8, we will also be offering a retrospective of the work of Art Spiegelman. Should be a very interesting juxtaposition of two very different artists whose works overlap in strange ways.
If you want more info, here is a review in today's NY Times, and a feature story about Chagall as seen through the eyes of his granddaughters. (BTW, this is the first time in 20 years that we have received two stories in the Times on the same day.)
The show opens Sunday and runs through February 2. It's well worth a visit, though if you wait until November 8, we will also be offering a retrospective of the work of Art Spiegelman. Should be a very interesting juxtaposition of two very different artists whose works overlap in strange ways.
