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Ilya Schor, Torah Crown, detail: The Sacrifice of Isaac, pierced and engraved silver, c.mid-1950s, c. 12 inches high. To my knowledge this Torah Crown was destroyed in a synagogue fire in the 1950s.

June 18, 2010

For Father’s Day: Ilya Schor (1904-1961)

My father Ilya Schor was an artist. He is best known for his work in Judaica including Torah Crowns, Candelabras, and Mezuzahs, for his jewelry, and for his illustrations of treasured texts of Jewish religious philosophy and folk literature by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Sholem Aleichem. In relation to the history of modernism, my [...]

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Looking for art to love, day two: uptown

May 1, 2010

Looking for art to love, day two: uptown

Uptown, at the Met, April 22 I arrived at the Met late in the afternoon, having stopped first at Acquavella Gallery to see Robert & Ethel Scull: Portrait of a Collection. I feel like I knew the Sculls personally because I show Emile de Antonio’s 1973 great documentary film Painters Painting whenever I teach about [...]

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April 29, 2010

Looking for art to love, day one: Chelsea

I started my search for art to love in Chelsea, April 20 (see my first post, immediately below, for some general thoughts about falling in love with artworks) “Talk Show” at Ed Thorp Gallery: is the title a sly way of hinting that the show is all women painters? (talk show > The View > [...]

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Looking for art to love in all the right places

April 28, 2010

Looking for art to love in all the right places

I’ve fallen in love with many more artworks than I have men and without giving anything away I’d have to say that I’ve had better luck with the artworks I’ve loved and even the ones I’ve hated. No painting I’ve ever seen was married or loved someone else, or got in the way of my [...]

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